The week in higher education - 27 February 2014
US whistleblower Edward Snowden was “humbled” by his election as the University of Glasgow’s rector on 18 February, replacing former Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy. Mr Snowden told The...
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Non-EU students attending UK universities
Last month data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency showed the first recorded fall in the number of students from outside the European Union enrolling on UK higher education courses
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Small firms lack resources to make most of open access
SMEs need tools as well as content to pinpoint research ‘nuggets’, says Elsevier chief
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Nerc casts wide net for science funding ideas
Council to seek suggestions from industry and the public on grant award decisions
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Acceptable face of ‘party night’ striptease
One-third of club dancers are now students, and many are middle class
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Bath to welcome Colombian PhD students
University boosts collaboration with ‘neglected’ South America
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Students to stay in dark on teaching qualification data
U-turn on move to publish breakdown of figures by institution after weak data from Hesa exercise
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Campus close-up: Goldsmiths, University of London
London institution is famed for its alloy of art and enterprise
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Higher education hub in Amazon rainforest
Brazilian state institution University of the State of Amazonas builds a new central campus near Manaus
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Forgotten plight of Palestinian higher education
Condemning those who back Israeli boycott fails to acknowledge curbs on Palestinian academy, says Eric Cheyfitz
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Frankfurt celebrates one hundred years of fortitude
Goethe University Frankfurt has survived prejudice, Nazism and student riots to look forward to another 100 years
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Feeling the buzz in a Leicester department on the move
Who got that job? Mark Banks opts for ‘change and challenge’ as the university’s new chair in media and communication. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments
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We must rev up our relationship with India
The UK has to strengthen ties with Asia if it is to reverse the decline in international students, says Liam Byrne
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Etty Hillesum: an intellectual woman ahead of her time
Mary Evans on the insights into persecution, knowledge and sexuality of a Dutch Jewish writer killed in Auschwitz
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