My eureka moment: Rocks and hard places
Mike Petterson's geological expertise has seen him travel the world, but perhaps his greatest eureka moments have come in Afghanistan, amid his efforts to help rebuild a shattered country
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City/Westminster - London helps Asian journalists
Two London universities are helping to develop journalism skills in Asia. City University London's journalism department has won a British Council contract to assess journalism education and training...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- Rethinking the Interior, c. 1867-1896Edited by Jason Edwards, reader in art history, University of York, and Imogen Hart, postdoctoral research associate, Yale...
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The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World
Sir Howard Newby appreciates a wake-up call for the US academy that will ring alarm bells here, too
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The market charge
Did necessity or ideology drive thinking behind Browne and the CSR, and will unleashing student/consumer demand improve or imperil the sector? Simon Baker investigates
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New breed revs up with globalisation...
... but teaching institutions and those in poor nations could be left behind. John Morgan reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Book of the week: Silent Summer
Jules Pretty looks at the changing face of our ecosystems, warts and all
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US fights to take back the power in the overseas market
Universities use cash, partnerships and recruiters to make up lost ground. Jon Marcus reports
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News in brief
Open accessYesterday's news, future failureThe British Library has been attacked over its plan to allow online access to its vast newspaper archive. In a speech at the Centre for Digital Humanities...
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Little Britain must expand
If the academy is to survive, it needs domestic support to take the offensive internationally, argues Anthony Seldon
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Nokia rings up Chinese connection
Mobile phone company Nokia has set up a joint research centre with a Chinese university. Tsinghua University and Nokia will research the internet, wireless and interactive communications for Asia,...
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University of Wales Institute Cardiff - Looking to the east
A campus in Singapore is to be established by the University of Wales Institute Cardiff. The UWIC Asia campus is being set up in conjunction with the East Asia Institute of Management (EASB). It will...
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Art on its own account
John Haldane muses on artist David Tremlett's ability to take on a space and transform it into something living, in a compelling affirmation of the essential domesticity of the creative act
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Tories promise universities A-level oversight
Gove says move will prevent devaluation of qualification. Melanie Newman writes