Tara Brabazon: The Finns have got it right
Finland has recognised broadband access to the internet as essential to citizenship; Australia and others still lag unacceptably far behind, writes Tara Brabazon
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Obama: ‘education is the economic issue of our time’
Barack Obama has called on higher education institutions in the US to “retake the lead” in providing the best education the world has to offer.Speaking at the University of Texas at Austin on 9...
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Towards freedom, and more success
The past 10 years have seen their fair share of ups and downs for higher education in Ireland, but Ferdinand von Prondzynski, outgoing president of Dublin City University, leaves his post with more...
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Inside Higher Ed: Out presidents
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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‘Graduate tax’ could prompt brain drain, union warns
The cost of studying for the “key professions” would soar under proposals for graduate contributions tabled by the business secretary, Vince Cable, the main lecturers’ union claims.The University and...
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Is the Israeli academy facing a McCarthyite era?
Political interference could put freedom of speech in universities at stake, says Matthew Reisz
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Funding announced to lead the way to greener pastures
Eleven higher education institutions have been awarded government funding to conduct research into sustainability and energy use in the sector.The Higher Education Funding Council for England...
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Book of the Week - Ireland: A History
Don MacRaild salutes a witty, readable and epic journey through the many-hued past of the Emerald Isle
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Stranger From Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness
Robert Eaglestone finds little narrative fire in a gossipy account of a life-shaping relationship
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Gaming the World: How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture
This book is a valuable contribution to the burgeoning study of sport in a global perspective. Focusing largely on the "Big Four" sports in the US (baseball, basketball, American football and ice...
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The Canon: Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson was not the first to suggest that the chemical fog produced by modern industry was carcinogenic. But her prodigious feat of synthesising a jumble of scientific and medical information...
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The Idea of the Library in the Ancient World
Stephen Bales welcomes a comprehensive challenge to a reductionist reification
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The Atlantic and its Enemies: A Personal History of the Cold War
Norman Stone's "personal history of the Cold War" is an informative, entertaining and often provocative account of world affairs from the fall of Winston Churchill in 1945 to that of Margaret...
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The Protestant Whore: Courtesan Narrative &England, 1680-1750
Mining the depths of late-17th- and 18th-century English novels for insights into the cultural and political turmoil of the era is standard practice for scholars; however, in her new book, The...
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True American by Rosemary C. Salamone
Darren Paffey finds that the US attitude to bilingualism has been driven by blinkered politics