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BIOGRAPHY- Leni Riefenstahl: A LifeBy Jurgen Trimborn, professor of film, theatre and art history, University of CologneI. B. Tauris, ?14.99. ISBN 9781845116446Trimborn uses detailed research and his...
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Fashion victims
Students and employers are increasingly dictating the courses that universities offer, as witnessed by the rise of business-related and TV-inspired subjects such as forensic science. But how far...
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Vegetable lambs and uniformed canaries
The Cat Orchestra and the Elephant Butler
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Seats of learning
Anyone who feels that research isn't glamorous clearly isn't working at the University of West of England or University College London. The two institutions announced this week that they have forged...
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? = Review forthcomingARCHAEOLOGY- Rome and Environs: An Archaeological GuideBy Filippo Coarelli, professor of Greek and Roman antiquities, University of Perugia, translated by James J. Clauss,...
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Trading partners
To build collaborative links with India, UK institutions must avoid treating the country as a cash cow, discovers Esther Oxford
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Soas splashes out on staff to broaden its horizons
The School of Oriental and African Studies wants to recruit almost 20 lecturers to boost new areas and revitalise others. The posts, advertised in The Times Higher this week and next, will broaden...
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ART AND DESIGN- Building St. Paul'sBy James W. P. Campbell, fellow in architecture and history of art at Queens' College, CambridgeThames and Hudson, ?12.95. ISBN 9780500342442Campbell tells the...
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'Second wave' of China initiatives ahead
UK universities are exploring fresh opportunities to open campuses in China, amid signs that the country may not have closed the door on further foreign higher education ventures, as previously...
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Call for funding to match rise in overseas students
The UK's continued success in attracting students from overseas this week prompted warnings from two leading higher education opinion formers. The number of students from outside Europe enrolling in...
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Life-risking 'spy' plan pulled
Academic protests have forced the Foreign Office to delay an anti-terror project. Phil Baty reports Two research councils put plans to enlist academics in the War on Terror on hold this week after...
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? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- Theories of Population Variation in Genes and GenomesBy Freddy Bugge Christiansen, professor of population biology, Aarhus University. Princeton University...
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World encompassed
Un report highlights desert threat Enough fertile land could turn into desert within the next generation to create an "environmental crisis of global proportions", large-scale migrations, and...
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Payments spark off row over sins of commission
Admissions ethics are in the spotlight after revelations that US universities recruiting abroad pay incentives to agents who sign students, a practice banned at home. Jon Marcus reports. When the...
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The fine lines between past and future
Postcolonial Poetry in English. First Edition