As India plays hard to get, overseas suitors lose interest
The government has reluctantly shelved its bill governing foreign education partners, reports Joanna Sugden from New Delhi
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Archives offer adventures in time and cyberspace
Cengage's plans to digitise the 19th century could open up a whole new world, finds Matthew Reisz
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Personal becomes political in this hall of mirrors
The V&A’s reflective new exhibition of Middle Eastern photography brings a heterogeneous region into focus, says Shahidha Bari
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Emerging properties: ignore the Anglo-Saxons and try the developing angle
Universities in Europe have been advised by a World Bank official to look to developing countries for inspiration rather than copying British and US models of higher education.
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News in brief
United StatesLegal tenderA US university aims to buy a law school from another "local" institution for $25 million (£16 million). Texas A&M University will pay Texas Wesleyan University $20...
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Tales of student visa bureaucracy
The visa process can trap students in a costly Kafkaesque limbo. To improve life for foreign scholars, the sector should halt its failed lobbying over policy and focus on publicising the misery...
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Introducing the ÌÇÐÄVlog 100 Under 50
ÌÇÐÄVlog today announces the launch of an exciting new addition to its World University Rankings portfolio.
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The Bologna chorus: harmony from two tones of same note
Higher education has room for both high ideals and pragmatism, Matthew Reisz hears in Bologna
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Modern Women in China and Japan: Gender, Feminism and Global Modernity between the Wars
This book's title reflects an original and bold move, namely to focus on the location of Katrina Gulliver's subjects (modern women in China and Japan) rather than their national, cultural and/or...
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Economy of expression
Christopher Bigsby is as qualified as any chancellor - and less harmful
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Appointments
Manchester Metropolitan UniversityJason PowellManchester Metropolitan University's newly appointed professor of community practice and social justice said he felt "genuine excitement and delight"...
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Appointments
Conde Nast College of Fashion and DesignKate ChealThe new senior lecturer in e-learning at the soon-to-be-opened Conde Nast College of Fashion and Design said she hoped to create a technological...
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Appointments
University of the West of EnglandGabriel ScallyThe new director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments at the University of the West of England said he...
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Asia rankings: KAIST's presidential address
A Korean institution is helping to build our social, economic and pedagogic future, says Nam Pyo SuhA modern research university deals with diverse issues in education and research to achieve two...