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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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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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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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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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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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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Economy of expression
Christopher Bigsby is as qualified as any chancellor - and less harmful
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Third Eureka-Asia meeting (Extracted from Report from the 3 March meeting of the Competititveness Council)
Brussels, 03 Mar 2003 The Council took note of information given by the Portuguese delegation on the forthcoming 3rd Eureka-Asia meeting which will take place on 26-30 May 2003 in Macao. The meeting...
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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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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Student Review: Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives
Editors: Des Freedman and Daya Kishan ThussuEdition: FirstPublisher: SagePages: 336Price: £75.00 and £26.99ISBN: 9781446201572 and 1589After their 2003 book for Sage, War and the Media: Reporting...
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Kudos, UK, but this is hardly the time to rest on your laurels
As British students from all classes look to the US and challenges rise in the East, Anthony Seldon warns the sector against complacency
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Diary
LondonBetween Heaven and Earth: Contemporary Art from the Centre of AsiaFor many in the West, if they think about the area at all, Afghanistan, Mongolia and the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan...