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Modern languages should be a passport to life, so why are so few students queuing up to learn them? In a special report on Britain's linguistic skills gap, Matthew Reisz discovers that, globally...
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Selective memory
I can't help thinking that the article on Malaysia ("Quintessentially Britain, truly Asia", August) may have crossed the line in suggesting that memories of the British colonial period are generally...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- Rethinking the Interior, c. 1867-1896Edited by Jason Edwards, reader in art history, University of York, and Imogen Hart, postdoctoral research associate, Yale...
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UK and India commit to world-class partnerships
Prime minister's delegation agrees joint research projects and greater cooperation. Paul Jump reports
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THE World University Rankings
ߣߣÊÓƵ's World University Rankings have become something of a benchmark for governments and higher education experts worldwide.In his inaugural address last year as president of...
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Mountbatten: Apprentice War Lord 1900-1943
He had it all: royal blood, good looks, an immensely rich if unfaithful wife, who provided him with a mansion in Park Lane, and close friendships with film stars. He also had charm by the bucketful....
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Japan's open-door policy hinges on an attitude shift
Entrenched ideas hinder drive to attract more foreign students and staff, writes Michael Fitzpatrick
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Grant winners
THE LEVERHULME TRUSTBasic sciencesAward winner: Karl EvansInstitution: University of SheffieldValue: £136,403Can climate change induce trophic mismatches that reduce orchid reproduction?Award winner...
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The Canon: The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
"The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line." Few sentences have proven as prophetic as this one, taken from the first paragraph of W.E.B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk...
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Unhappy campus: heaven knows we're miserable now
Compared with global peers, UK academics are most negative about work. Paul Jump reports
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Grant winners
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCILFirst Grants• Award winner: R. Ward• Institution: University of Manchester• Value: £195,226Hairdressing, image and body work in care services to older people•...
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From where I sit: Repulsion and attraction
ߣߣÊÓƵn universities are worried that bad publicity is putting off international students. Such students are lucrative business and one of the reasons they flocked to ߣߣÊÓƵ in the past was...
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Global Inequalities and Higher Education: Whose Interests Are We Serving?
As a glance at any issue of this magazine shows, higher education is increasingly a global phenomenon. But globalisation poses particular challenges. Put crudely, is higher education to be a means of...
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Arise, Sir Steve: UUK head leads academic honours list
Steve Smith has been knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours after steering Universities UK through one of the higher education sector’s most turbulent periods.
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News in brief
KenyaBonds: licence to expandKenya plans to sell 10 billion shillings (£79.5 million) of bonds to finance an expansion of its universities that would stop students from being turned away owing to...