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...
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Male voice misfire
I am surprised to note no women among the 11 named speakers in your advertisement for the forthcoming World Academic Summit (7 March). I do hope that this is not representative of the “senior...
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Ethics rethink for social sciences
‘Common principles’ plan aims to protect research from risk-averse committees. Paul Jump reports
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Hefce warning: Whitehall, we have some problems
‘Unpredictable outcomes’ of reform require ‘immediate attention
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Cartographies of Life and Death: John Snow and Disease Mapping
Matthew Reisz visits an exhibition to celebrate the bicentenary of a pioneering epidemiologist
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From where I sit - Consensus on diversity
“Poetry defeats the curse which binds us to be subjected to the accident of surrounding impressions.” The words are Percy Shelley’s, and among a readership such as that of Times Higher Education,...
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News in brief
Sexism on campusLad culture endemic: NUS studyMore than half of female students experience “prevailing sexism, ‘laddism’ and a culture of harassment” at their universities, according to a survey by...
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News in brief
United StatesHonesty and the non-PC deanThe interim dean of a US university’s school of law has stood down saying he was “too politically incorrect” and not a good fit for the position. Tom Keefe,...
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Anthropology cut to the core when two tribes go to war
A feud at the heart of the discipline is undermining efforts to build a unified science of humanity, warns Camilla Power
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Chávez's socialism at the heart of the system
Venezuela’s revolution will not die with its leader, but will live on in its academy, says Mike Cole