Robert Tuttle, the US ambassador to the UK, has opened a new ?8 million home for experts in international security, terrorism and peace studies at the University of St Andrews. The new building...
BPP may have been awarded university college status, but the regulatory system will have to be drastically overhauled if for-profit higher education is to thrive in Britain, says Simon Baker
University of Nottingham, MalaysiaStephen DoughtyStephen Doughty, new vice-provost (teaching and learning) at the University of Nottingham's Malaysia campus, has no regrets about leaving Britain for...
ARTS AND DESIGN- The New York School Poets and the Neo-Avant-Garde between Radical Art and Radical ChicBy Mark Silverberg, associate professor of American literature, Cape Breton University, Canada....
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? = Review forthcomingBusiness and managementl Business Practices in Southeast Asia: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Theravada Buddhist CountriesBy Scott A. Hipsher, professor of business, Anaheim...
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Widening participationForty-five per cent and countingThe government has edged closer towards its 50 per cent target for participation in higher education. Statistics published last week show that in...
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Knowledge is a public good, and the growing strength of universities in China and elsewhere need not harm the West, says Ben Wildavsky
United StatesStudent-loans revampThe student-loan reforms seen as a cornerstone of Barack Obama's education agenda have been passed alongside healthcare legislation. While the healthcare reform bill...
ARTS AND DESIGN- The Lantern Tower of Westminster Abbey, 1060-2010: Reconstructing its History and ArchitectureBy Warwick Rodwell, visiting professor in the department of archaeology, University of...
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After considering criteria that demand work ¡®well above world standard¡¯, Tara Brabazon concludes that an era of interplanetary scholarship must be upon us
An exhibition focuses on the local fixers who made Western exploration possible. Matthew Reisz writes