Ministers launch £10 million English fund for University Enterprise Zones
Investment will help institutions develop university-industry collaboration
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Letters – 28 February 2019
Librarians hold the trump card in learning I read with disappointment Jeffrey Beall’s tirade against the work of academic librarians in the article “Bloated remainders” (Opinion, 7 February). The...
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East and West: progressing in partnership
Cutting-edge scientific research requires freedom from political constraint. To maximise progress, both Asia and the West should reflect on their priorities
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CBI: English tuition fee and funding cut will cause ‘profound harm’
Carolyn Fairbarn will urge ministers not to cause ‘needless’ damage to the ‘precious national asset’ of universities
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The play using university admissions to skewer liberal pieties
Joshua Harmon’s savage play, Admissions, brings to London its tangled emotions unleashed by diversity policies
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Overseas student numbers in UK up, but EU numbers fall
Number of international students in UK is at highest level since 2011, despite drop in arrivals from European Union
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Bordering on Britishness: National Identity in Gibraltar from the Spanish Civil War to Brexit, by Andrew Canessa
This well-timed collection attempts to understand what nationality means in the territory, says Keith Kahn-Harris
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What are you reading? – 28 February 2019
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years’ War to the Third Reich, by Christopher Clark
Hester Vaizey on how regimes employed different temporal signatures to legitimate their authority
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From Anthropology to Social Theory: Rethinking the Social Sciences, by Arpad Szakolczai and Bjørn Thomassen
Simon Underdown on a call for the discipline to reclaim its maverick heritage to rejuvenate itself and tackle dynamic real-world problems
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New and noteworthy – 28 February 2019
Follow the climate change leaders; navigate freedom’s tricky path; grok Robert A. Heinlein; and stand with scientists, students and society
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ߣߣƵ and Asia: the academic foreign exchange
John Ross examines the state of cross-study and collaboration between ߣߣƵ and its neighbours in the East
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Knowledge exchange: how should universities engage with business?
The UK’s new knowledge exchange framework, whose proposed metrics were unveiled last month, has raised more questions over relationships between universities and business. David Secher and Surya...
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The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present, by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Book of the week: Fears that something fascist-like will rise again permeate the moment, writes Robert Eaglestone
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ߣߣƵ ‘missing’ the education impact of China's Belt and Road Initiative
Universities ‘not well served’ by federal government’s approach to BRI, Universities ߣߣƵ conference hears