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'I want to see education stay at the very heart of what we do'
Martin Davidson, just appointed director-general of the British Council, has enjoyed a rapid rise to the top Martin Davidson has promoted British culture and the English language in half of the world...
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Overseas briefing
South KoreaSeoul searching for studentsThe number of foreign students at South Korea's universities will rise by 100,000 if government targets are hit. The Ministry of Education, Science and...
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Fine tuning reveals distinctions
Peer review is key to identifying top quality but a fairer overall picture emerges due to changes in analysis. The extensive discussion of The Times Higher-QS World University Rankings that has taken...
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Off Piste: To infinity and beyond
Fancy the matchless freedom of paragliding - but any time, any place, anywhere? Paul Chapman does, that's why he took to paramotoring
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World encompassed
INDIAN PM CRITICISES STATE OF ACADEME Most of India's universities are "below average", according to the nation's prime minister, Manmohan Singh. Speaking at Mumbai University, Mr Singh called for an...
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Chinese demographics pose risk to UK market share
British Council study says single-child policy will harm recruiting efforts. John Gill reports
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Appointments
A professor of international law at the University of Leeds has been appointed to a key nature-conservation post in his native Nepal. Surya Subedi has been named a governor of the National Trust for...
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Analysis: Fine tuning reveals distinctions
Peer review is key to identifying top quality but a fairer overall picture emerges due to changes in analysis.
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Published this week
EDUCATION- Boys and Foreign Language Learning: Real Boys Don't Do LanguagesBy Jo Carr, senior lecturer, School of Cultural and Language Studies in Education, Queensland University of Technology, and...
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Sydney joins global club
Sydney University has joined the Worldwide Universities Network, a group of 16 research institutions in Europe, North America and Asia. The network has established 500 research mobility awards for...
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Flu fighter
Devastating pandemics remain a threat to public health. Sir Gordon Duff heads the vigilant scientists who protect us.
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New AAUP chief to fight 'academic capitalism'
John Gill meets the man who pledges to restore intellectual freedom to US university campuses
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- Homo erectus: Pleistocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, EthiopiaEdited by W. Henry Gilbert, assistant professor of anthropology, California State...
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Published this week
Geography and environmental sciences• Critical Transitions in Nature and SocietyBy Marten Scheffer, professor of environmental sciences, Wageningen UniversityPrinceton University Press, £26.95 ISBN...