Lancaster University - Gas guzzlers
A £2.5 million research project into how rainforests control the composition and chemistry of the atmosphere is being led by Lancaster University. The three-year venture, funded by the Natural...
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Misconduct chargesExam-paper professor suspendedAn investigation at the University of Manchester into a professor accused of failing to rigorously mark exam papers has found that there is a case to...
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Liverpool Hope University - Christianity scholars commune
Scholars from around the world gathered for a conference on Asian and African Christianity at Liverpool Hope University. Twenty academics took part in the event last weekend, among them professor of...
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Tara Brabazon: The world class is not enough
After considering criteria that demand work ‘well above world standard’, Tara Brabazon concludes that an era of interplanetary scholarship must be upon us
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Social sciences round-up
Knowledge-in-Practice in the Caring Professions: Multidisciplinary PerspectivesEditors: Heather D'Cruz, Struan Jacobs and Adrian SchooEdition: FirstPublisher: AshgatePages: 266Price: £60.00 and £19....
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The book of the week: The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East
Radhakrishnan Nayar on 'de-Westernisation'
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Overseas briefing
AUSTRALIAV-c copies work from WikipediaA vice-chancellor embroiled in a row over an A$100,000 (£47,000) grant from Saudi Arabia has admitted copying incorrect information about Islam from Wikipedia....
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Defiant Publics: The Unprecedented Reach of the Global Citizen
Daniel Drache, professor of political science at York University in Toronto, describes recent developments in activism connected to the internet and communications revolution in a book that new...
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Students, get it off your chest
Suggestion boxes could be used to encourage overseas learners to complain. John Gill reports
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Appointments
The first female vice-chancellor in Wales has been appointed at the University of Glamorgan. Julie Lydon, the current deputy vice-chancellor at the institution, will replace David Halton who retires...
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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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Published this week
BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT- The Ashgate Research Companion to Corporate Social ResponsibilityEdited by David Crowther, professor of corporate social responsibility, De Montfort University, and Nicholas...
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Interest intensifies in UK degrees delivered overseas
Some fear offshore growth will slash the numbers coming to the UK to study. Hannah Fearn reports
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When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World
Gregory Kent says an important study on the growing power of modern China is incomplete
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Grant winners
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILThe AHRC research grants schemes are intended to support well-defined research projects to enable individuals to collaborate with, and bring benefits to, other...