Canada and China seek to exchange students, staff and ideas
Canada ramps up the campaign to improve its position on the world stage, writes Sarah Cunnane
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Daytime TV: Hidden agendas
Gary Day finds the presenters of Secret Britain intrusive and marvels over Anglo-Saxon treasures
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Top 10 Nanoscience Papers, 2000-09
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its ISI Web of Science, 2000–present
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Last of the summer wine
Yes, it's that time of year when we once again absent ourselves from felicity and return our noses to the familiar grindstone. But before we say goodbye to summer, here in the last of our Holiday...
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Just a few rotten apples?
US for-profits are a mixed bag but they meet a real need, says Alan Ryan
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Leader: No creative buzz from the drones
Employability is about more than skills: it is about cultivating the independence, imagination and rigour to take on any task
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Obama plans to relax limits on academic travel to Cuba
Campaigners claim the ban was introduced for domestic political gain. Jon Marcus reports
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From where I sit - STEMming the rate of decline
Leif Johansson, the chairman of the European Round Table of Industrialists, recently observed that Europe is in danger of being overtaken by China and India economically because of a dearth of...
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Celia Gallagher, 1967-2010
A leading figure in the planning and funding of the Irish university sector has died.Celia Gallagher was born in Donegal on 24 April 1967 and spent her childhood on Arranmore Island.After a first...
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Research intelligence - Reach for the sky
Royal Astronomical Society's new chief calls for farsighted and bold research funding. Paul Jump reports
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Who will speak up for languages?
These are testing and paradoxical times for universities' modern languages departments. A significant number have closed in recent years; others have been hacked to the bone, nearing the point of...
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Wide web of best practice
In your article "Deciphering the code" (19 August) you provided a (somewhat confusing) league table of the best-performing institutional websites as judged by a group of sixth-formers. While the...
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Shining a light on NGOs
Matthew Reisz ("Criticism of universities has provoked a sharp response", 26 August) mischaracterises NGO Monitor.As is clear from our publications and website, NGO Monitor is a highly credible...
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STEM needs more branches
I have been enjoying the articles about STEM in your magazine. When I first saw the acronym, I interpreted it spontaneously as referring to science, technology, English and mathematics, until I...