The Euro: The Politics of the New Global Currency
Roger Morgan learns of the diplomatic deal-making that made the eurozone a reality
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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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Outside looking in
The UK's external examiner system is supposed to uphold standards across the sector. Rebecca Attwood asks if it still does the job
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Off-the-shelf solutions
By cutting print stocks, university libraries can provide student-friendly services like wired-up work areas and social spaces. Are academics right to fear a loss of scholarly resources? asks Hannah...
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There's space for all of us
Astronomy arouses passion in both scientific and religious circles. Few spend their lives studying the Universe, but Brother Guy Consolmagno hopes the International Year of Astronomy will bring out...
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Graduation ceremonies
This week we are pleased to carry the following recommendations from our Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, on body control during the forthcoming graduation ceremoniesTo all members of...
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Reductionism won't save the world
As confirmed interdisciplinarians, there were very few points with which we could agree in Robert Segal's article "Crossing borders can lead to gold - but so can digging deep" (18 June). Having...
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Impact assessment
I was at the research excellence framework conference last week ("Hefce backs off citations in favour of peer review in REF", 18 June).Your focus on what we pretty much knew already - that peer...
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Tongue-tied 1
Recent weeks have seen a fresh wave of anxiety concerning the health of modern languages in the UK at all levels of education.How comforting it is, therefore, to read in the "education strategy" of...
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Tongue-tied 2
Futurologist Ian Pearson ("Wisdom received, over and out", 18 June) suggests that "more rapid reverse engineering of brain processes" coupled with an alleged exponential progress in technology will...
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Face value 1
Deborah Rogers' view of Facebook is unnecessarily negative ("I poke dead people: the paradox of Facebook", 18 June). The amusement to be found in poking, joining frivolous "interest" groups and...
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Face value 2
It was amusing to see Deborah Rogers suggest that Facebook may have "jumped the shark".The phrase originated from an episode of the US television series Happy Days in which, allegedly, the...
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Not-so-super-determinism
I want to correct Sian Moore's continued inaccuracies (Letters, 18 June) concerning Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World, which I co-edited with John McIlroy. Moore claims that we present "an...
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Question of balance
For Richard Austen-Baker's proposal (Letters, 18 June) to really work, surely all academic appointments should also be half administration? Much better, surely, for all concerned to recognise that...
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Crystal clear on library value
The consultation that is now demanded over the future of the University of London's institute libraries (Letters, 4 and 18 June) has already been done, in Sir Ivor Crewe's 2008 Review of Hefce...