News in brief - 11 April 2013
EgyptThat didn’t go down wellHundreds of Egyptian students at al-Azhar University stormed the offices of one of the country’s top Muslim clerics, who presides over their institution, during a protest...
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News in brief - 11 April 2013
THE Awards 2013Open for entriesEntries are now being welcomed from universities across the UK for the ninth annual ߣߣƵ Awards. Institutions, departments and individuals will...
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Dame Barbara Stocking vows to empower women
New head of all-women Murray Edwards College, Cambridge makes equality a priority
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Campus round-up - 11 April 2013
Eastern exposureA first-year student has spent months painstakingly capturing the changing face of his university campus on film, which has become a hit online. Morten Rustad, a business management...
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Odds and quads - 11 April 2013
The caribou figurine from the Canadian Arctic (above, top-left), dated to around 1920, was used in rituals by Inuit hunters.The “seal indicator” (above, bottom-left), also Canadian and from the early...
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'Core values', not pay, drive the Sydney dispute
Strikers are fighting ‘charter for managerial radicalism’, says academic
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Eat, play, learn
The highlight of the school year in France near the Pyrenees is Carnival Day, when the children from five or six village schools parade through the streets in special handmade costumes while their...
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All-terrain scholars pursue fluency in different cultures
Forum discusses efforts to increase mobility of Europe’s academics
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THE Scholarly Web - 11 April 2013
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Appointments - 11 April 2013
University of WarwickRobert HarrisonThe newly appointed professor of innovative manufacturing at WMG, the University of Warwick’s manufacturing group, said his first priority since taking up the post...
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Robert Beers, 1946-2013
An award-winning television correspondent and producer-turned-academic has died
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Hepi’s Bahram Bekhradnia on speaking truth to power
Clear sight essential, thick skin an advantage: Hepi’s outgoing director looks back on 11 years of scrutiny on the sector’s behalf. John Morgan writes
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Who’s the Pest? brings the insect world into close focus
Entomologist James Logan takes part in a Wellcome Collection series in celebration of the insect kingdom
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Roger Brown, Jim Butcher, Tina Haux, Hillegonda Rietveld and Sharon Wheeler...
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Orgasmology by Annamarie Jagose
A study of la petite mort focuses on cultural views not sociological explorations, finds Sally R. Munt