Odds and quads
These "neck pieces" - necklaces made entirely of hair - are the work of Kerry Howley, a recent jewellery graduate from Middlesex University.
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Cut the branches, try a safer route
'Transnational' education isn't dying, but it is changing. Jon Marcus reports on Western institutions' moves to mitigate the risks of foreign outposts, thanks to a little help from their hosts
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US students set sights beyond Europe
Asia, India and Middle East are becoming study-abroad destinations of choice, reports Jon Marcus
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The week in higher education
? The "sea of rage" promised by anarchists before last week's student protest turned into something of a damp squib, with police matching or outnumbering demonstrators. The press treated the event...
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From where I sit - Two-way traffic in land of rivers
After a morning visit to Koya University, situated towards Kurdistan-Iraq's Iranian border, I learned that the main road to Raniya was blocked.Outside the cities, where new roads and buildings mark...
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Appointments
University of OxfordJane HumphriesA "number-crunching economic historian" has won the Gyorgy Ranki Biennial Prize, awarded for an outstanding book on European economic history. Jane Humphries,...
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Leader: Absence-minded, ill defined
For all the confusion surrounding the role of professors, one thing's certain: junior staff expect them to do a lot more to help
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A matter of life or death
As a cancer survivor, Sally Feldman has been a research object and participant
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17 November 2011
Plum role - Leader, researcher, teacher, mentor: professor, who do you think you are?
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After 12 years, University of West London removed from ‘at risk’ list
A university that has been on the funding council’s “at risk” list for 12 years – longer than any other in England – has been removed from the register.
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Inside Higher Ed: Dropping F-bombs
By Elizabeth Murphy, for Inside Higher Ed
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FE colleges lead scramble for 20,000 biddable places
Five times as many further education colleges as universities have bid for places under the government’s cut-price student numbers margin in 2012-13.
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For students, fee waivers ‘make no sense whatsoever’
Tuition fee waivers should be scrapped in favour of bursaries, according to a former president of the National Union of Students.
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Europe still the top destination for US students
The UK remains the top destination for students from the US looking to study abroad.