Campus round-up: 14 March 2013
Artistic authorityA university leader’s art collection was put on public display this week. The exhibition, titled Colour and Modernity, features prints, oil paintings and lithographs collected by...
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Olympians: give sporting life a sporting chance
THE podcast hears rallying cry for sector: play up and let students play the game
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Appointments - 14 March 2013
Harper Adams UniversityLeander McLennanA new lecturer in animal health at Harper Adams University said her transition from commercial clinical work to teaching was a “big change” but a challenge she...
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The advantages of being freelance
Sian Lawson extols the virtues of independence from the academy
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14 March 2013
Target practice - US college presidents take on the gun lobby and rediscover the power of protest
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Gary Day, Andrew McInnes, R.C. Richardson, Brandy Schillace and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences by David Cannadine
Jill Stephenson on a skilful critique of the scholarly preoccupation with difference
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Shakespeare in Company by Bart van Es
Peter J. Smith on the Bard as collaborative figure
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Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman by Jeremy Adelman
Andreas Hess discusses the incredible life of an artist of ‘possibilism’
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The University and the City by John Goddard and Paul Vallance
Geoffrey Alderman on the social and economic benefits that an institution can bring to a locality
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Shaping Europe: France, Germany and Embedded Bilateralism from the Elysée Treaty to Twenty-First Century Politics by Ulrich Krotz and Joachim Schild
Roger Morgan on the Franco-German alliance within the EU and its effect on decision-making in the union
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Going Grey: The Mediation of Politics in an Ageing Society by Scott Davidson
Sarah Harper on the changing approach of the media and governments to ageing populations
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Sierra Leone: child soldiers 10 years on
University vice-chancellor reveals the struggle to educate students who have been brutalised by civil war
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Going Global delegates debate post-conflict education
For long-term prosperity, universities in war-torn countries must focus on rebuilding infrastructure, conference hears
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7 - 14 March 2013 - The week in higher education
A student has started a campaign against sexism after enduring misogynistic heckling during a debating competition. Rebecca Meredith, a politics student at King’s College, Cambridge, said she was...