Global Gender Index, 2013
Glass ceiling remains in place for female academics. Jack Grove reports
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This year London, later the world
NCH looks to go from 60-student intake to degree powers, campus abroad. David Matthews reports
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Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life by Jonathan Sperber
Sheila?Rowbotham on a crisp portrait of a restless thinker who was neither infallible nor prophetic
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Free in principle (but with a few strings attached)
Academic freedom has always depended on how well universities satisfy the goals of politicians and demands of the economy.That was the viewpoint put forward by Sir Peter Scott, professor of higher...
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Of a different stripe
The suggestion that Pearson's apparent interest in acquiring the College of Law (The Week in Higher Education, 15 December) might cause the state-funded sector to "...feel like wildebeest about to...
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Why Australia Prospered: The Shifting Sources of Economic Growth
The success of the Australian economy - its last official recession ended in 1991 and it has enjoyed more than 20 years of almost uninterrupted growth, slowing only recently - is impressive in...
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Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain
Vernon Bogdanor doffs his cap to a monument of objective, disinterested historical scholarship
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Tim Rix, 1934-2012
One of the UK's leading academic publishers has died.Tim Rix was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire on 4 January 1934 and educated at Radley College. After national service in the Royal Navy, he studied...
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Steely tyrant¡¯s revolutionary designs
Revolutionary zeal, not imperial ambition, drove on the USSR¡¯s great tyrant, says Vladimir Tismaneanu
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Stalin¡¯s Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War, by Robert Gellately
Vladimir Tismaneanu discusses the revolutionary ambitions of the USSR¡¯s great tyrant
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Universities in ¡®panic¡¯ over student recruitment, claims marketing consultant
Universities are facing a ¡°student recruitment crisis¡± in clearing and some are 2,000 short of their number targets, according to a marketing consultancy.
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With 'unresponsive' UKBA, walking like an Egyptian may involve exit doors
The Egyptian government may shun the UK as a destination for postgraduate students on state scholarships because of frustrations over visas.
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Pearson¡¯s expansionist ambitions
John Morgan reports on FTSE 100 firm¡¯s HE strategy
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Television, Sex and Society: Analyzing Contemporary Representations
Editors: Basil Glynn, James Aston and Beth JohnsonPublisher: Bloomsbury/ContinuumEdition: FirstPages: 224Price: ?17.99ISBN: 9780826434982This edited collection offers readings of popular mainstream...
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Languages of the World: An Introduction
Author: Asya PereltsvaigEdition: FirstPublisher: Cambridge University PressPages: 296Price: ?55.00 and ?19.99ISBN: 97811070084 and 9780521175777What connection is there between salami and halogens?...