Reckless exploitation of the overseas market will only end in tears
Andy Masheter argues that Britain's academy must not sacrifice its hard-won global reputation on the altar of expediency
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Maastricht treatise: bleak future for Europe's academy without GDP boost
European societies have been urged to commit 2 per cent of their gross domestic products to higher education as part of the "urgent action" needed to prevent them losing out to the US and Asia.A...
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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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Grant winners
THE LEVERHULME TRUSTBasic sciencesAward winner: Karl EvansInstitution: University of SheffieldValue: ?136,403Can climate change induce trophic mismatches that reduce orchid reproduction?Award winner...
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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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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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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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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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University of St Andrews - New home for terrorism centre
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...
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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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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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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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Little Britain must expand
If the academy is to survive, it needs domestic support to take the offensive internationally, argues Anthony Seldon