University of Oxford’s black pioneers
Uncovering tales of ancient university’s scholars of colour
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Report urges engineering to concentrate on fresh materials
But niche learning may not play well in jobs market, expert warns
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City University London’s ‘unruly’ pop-up in heart of Tech City
Cass Business School’s outreach sessions draw start-ups, scholars together
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Campus round-up - 21 November 2013
Source: Rex FeaturesBan won’t mean plenty more fish in the seaBanning the practice of throwing unmarketable or over-quota fish back into the sea is only one of the measures needed to deliver...
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‘Google model’ could spell end for fees
Argentine v-c: ad-based system could end ‘financial discrimination’
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Arab universities head calls for regional quid pro quo
Rich and poor states have resources other side needs, says sultan
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Rebuilding the Kurdistan academy
Vice-chancellors are held in high esteem in the UK, but they can’t hold up the traffic. In Iraq, university leaders are so powerful that they can pick up the phone and order a police escort.So it was...
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Does a high price always mean high quality?
Malcolm Gillies on contradictory attitudes to soaring fees and value for money
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Matthew Feldman, Les Gofton, Tim Hall, Bruce Scharlau and James Underwood...
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Housewives and Citizens: Domesticity and the Women’s Movement in England, 1928-64, by Caitriona Beaumont
June Purvis discusses conservative contributions to gender equality
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Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight against Muslim Fundamentalism, by Karima Bennoune
Julia Droeber is humbled by the courage of everyday resistance
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Romantic Geography: In Search of the Sublime Landscape, by Yi-Fu Tuan
Robert Mayhew on the human need to travel to extreme environments that nourish the spirit
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A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning, by Robert Zaretsky
Matthew Feldman on a study of the Nobel prize-winning existentialist author through the themes that preoccupied him
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William and Dorothy Wordsworth: All in Each Other, by Lucy Newlyn
Shahidha Bari on a literary biography of the siblings’ creative collaboration
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Uclan ‘exposure’ as Thai campus is dropped
University accounts will show write-down of £3.2 million