The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System 1830-1970
All this magnificent study of Pax Britannica lacks is the scent of sweat and blood, writes Joanna Lewis
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Overseas outposts must follow home rules, union leaders say
Universities told to uphold rights on their campuses in Middle East and East Asia. Jon Marcus writes
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From the sublime to the sustainable, and back again
Some have odd titles, but many debates at the RGS conference are deadly serious, writes Matthew Reisz
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Searching for cash overseas
By Scott Jaschik for Insidehighered
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When Men Dance: Choreographing Masculinities across Borders
Juxtaposing scholarly essays with personal histories, When Men Dance probes the impediments (and, occasionally, the advantages) faced by male artists in a discipline plagued by "choreophobia,...
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Polar funding policies are closing the gap between East and West
The downturn has prompted drastic university funding cuts in some nations, but increased investment in others, notes Simon Marginson
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Geography and Environmental Science round-up
Global Environmental PoliticsAuthors: Pamela S. Chasek, David L. Downie and Janet Welsh BrownEdition: FifthPublisher: Perseus/WestviewPages: 504Price: £25.99ISBN 9780813344423For nearly two decades,...
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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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Appointments
Royal Holloway, University of London - Paul LayzellThe next vice-chancellor of Royal Holloway, University of London is clear about the uncertainties he will face as he leads the institution over the...
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Art on its own account
John Haldane muses on artist David Tremlett's ability to take on a space and transform it into something living, in a compelling affirmation of the essential domesticity of the creative act
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Published this week
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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Politics round-up
Religion and Politics: Islam and Muslim CivilizationAuthors: Jan-Erik Lane and Hamadi RedissiEdition: SecondPublisher: AshgatePages: 354Price: £35.00ISBN 9780754674184Seeking to offer a fresh...
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Private practice
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
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The New Plagues: Pandemics and Poverty in a Globalized World
Stefan Kaufmann is both lucky and unlucky. His luck is to be a senior scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, situated close to the Luisenstrasse, where in 1880 Robert...
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UK faces continental threat
Report advises British universities to act or lose international students to European rivals. Hannah Fearn reports