News in brief - 28 August 2014
Degree verificationThird of firms fail to run checksMore than a third of employers fail to check that job applicants are not lying about their degree, according to research by the Higher Education...
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The week in higher education - 28 August 2014
Undergraduates heading abroad to study are more worried about how they will watch The Great British Bake Off than any academic concerns, the Evening Standard reported on 19 August. Experts from the...
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QAA has ‘no confidence’ in private college
London Oriental Academy banned from accessing SLC funds
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Stamp out Qatar ‘forced labour’, Labour MP tells alma mater
Shadow minister and UCL alumna calls on university to do ‘all it can’ to stop practice on overseas site
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Charities more generous than MRC in funding studentships
£100,000 PhD funding from the Macular Society and Fight for Sight outstrip offers via MRC doctoral training partnerships
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Alliances overseas can ‘secure future’ for languages
Lack of succession planning is eroding research base, says head of Institute of Modern Languages Research
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Campus close-up: University of Warwick
As the Coventry campus with global reach turns 50, it looks to alliances without forgetting its roots
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Southeast Asia ‘needs a strong sector identity’
British Council report recommends that the region develop an identity revolving around a student experience based on links with employers
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Institute a ‘veneer for the state’s projects’, claims professor
US scholar says he was sacked after speaking out at National University of Singapore institute
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Dame Ann Dowling makes a case for ‘use-inspired’ research
First female president of the Royal Academy of Engineers hopes to change UK’s ‘sniffiness’ about applied research
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Laura Davidson, Paul Greatrix, Philip Kemp, Dan Murch and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Philosophy and Blade Runner, by Timothy Shanahan
Murray Smith learns much from an examination of the existential questions in a classic cinematic adaptation
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Chasing the American Dream: Understanding What Shapes our Fortunes, by Mark Robert Rank, Thomas A. Hirschl and Kirk A. Foster
Angelia Wilson on a national narrative that distorts reality with its boundless optimism
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Zone of Crisis: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Iraq, by Amin Saikal
Farzana Shaikh on a study of a region that lies at the heart of a geopolitical storm
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From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women’s Rights in Gilded Age America, by Kimberly A. Hamlin
Ellen Carol DuBois extols a study of a scientific theory’s impact on the pursuit of empowerment