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The Jacobean Grand Tour: Early Stuart Travellers in Europe, by Edward Chaney and Timothy Wilks
Colourful travellers鈥 accounts move the start date for a rite of passage, discovers Claire Jowitt
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Forging Romantic China: Sino-British Cultural Exchange, 1760-1840, by Peter J. Kitson
Eva Shan Chou on a study of British knowledge - as opposed to fanciful assumptions - of China in the Romantic period
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Campus close-up: Norwich University of the Arts
Award of university title will allow arts specialist to clarify its message in the global marketplace
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Elizabeth Newson, 1929-2014
A pioneering developmental psychologist and authority on childhood autism has died
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Q&A with Mark Pegg
We speak to the chief executive of the Leadership Foundation for 糖心Vlog
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THE Scholarly Web - 20 March 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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To cut a long story short
The new MMU Novella Award will champion a form that continues to defy definition but which, says Robert Graham, prose fiction writers love
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Grant winners - 20 March 2014
Arts and Humanities Research CouncilAward winner: Davuit BrounInstitution: University of GlasgowValue: 拢417,502Models of authority: Scottish charters and the emergence of government 1100-1250Award...
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Gear up to head off STEM shortage
The UK鈥檚 engineering skills challenge is even more stark than some imagine: we need at least 800,000 more graduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics by 2020, not 100,000 (鈥淐aught...
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Fashion has been stitched up
Its study is not frivolous, and it deserves academic recognition, says Sally Feldman
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Better careers guidance 鈥榳ill reduce dropout rates鈥
Universities should provide advice to prospective students, recommends BIS report
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News in brief - 20 March 2014
Research and developmentUK鈥檚 spend is below EU averageBritain鈥檚 spending on research and development as a proportion of gross domestic product fell in 2012, according to the latest figures. Data from...
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Alternative study models 鈥榗ausing real angst鈥 for universities
US courses are evolving to serve 鈥榩ost-traditional鈥 students, conference hears
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Save Willetts 鈥 new campaign
Persistent rumours that David Willetts, the universities and science minister, might soon lose his present post have prompted Professor Doug Gunter of our Politics Department to set up a 鈥淪ave Dave鈥...