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The Oracle by Reg Butler is one of five original works in the University of Hertfordshire’s art collection.
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Campus round-up
Wearing wellResearch by a university’s neuroscientists has inspired catwalk fashion for a unique scheme. The Changing Minds project - involving neuroscientists at the University of Southampton and...
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Nation of Islam
Ervand Abrahamian considers how Muslim clerics seized and retained control of modern-day Persia
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Dulce et decorum est
The architects of the Iraq misadventure should be made to read this book, avers James T. Crouse
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A Life in Education and Architecture: Mary Beaumont Medd by Catherine Burke
This is a generous, well-crafted review of the life of Bradford-born public sector architect Mary Medd (née Crowley, 1907-2005). As a means of gaining insight into how to design schools, Catherine...
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‘Hitler’s Pope’, minus the pontification
John Pollard commends a portrayal of the life of a controversial figure - his flaws and his gifts
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Eco-Business: A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability by Peter Dauvergne and Jane Lister
Anyone reading this book who thought that sustainability was the preserve of small, high-minded companies concerned with the impact of their production methods on people and the planet will be...
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Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Silence has become a fashionable topic in our ceaselessly noisy world. At the last count, a search of the World Wide Web turned up an astounding 293 million or so references about silence ranging...
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The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games by Jesper Juul
Why do we play games when we know they make us unhappy? Video games in particular, that is, but games and sport in general, too. Analysis of video games has been an integral part of the theorising of...
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Jagged little pills
Recent research in Germany reveals that one in five students “takes something” to improve academic performance. The substances can range from fairly innocuous caffeine tablets to Ritalin,...
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Eco-Business: A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability by Peter Dauvergne and Jane Lister
Isabelle Szmigin on how big companies sustain their profits first, and the environment second
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An open book?
Universities are required to be open to scrutiny because they are publicly funded. But how far should it go? When it comes to their internal business, David Matthews discovers that competition may be...
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28 March - 3 April 2013 - The week in higher education
A Cardiff-born expatriate lecturer has won fame in East Asia after reaching the semi-finals of China’s Got Talent for his rendition of revolutionary songs dressed in a Mao-style uniform. Iain Inglis...
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A clear balance of interests
Institutions have a delicate line to tread in being open about their organisations versus the pressures of competition
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One inspection, multiple agencies
Several bodies could carry out university inspections simultaneously to cut the administrative burden