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Big ideas from BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinkers
Scholarly talent search winners for 2013 to bring insights to the nation
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Hefce’s over-recruitment sanctions remain in force
Despite loss of teaching grant, universities must still comply with enrolment targets
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Portsmouth defends military training pact with Oman
Critics of university deal point to repression in Gulf state
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French can’t block the English signal
Row over use of language in sector a moot point, study finds
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False friends with deep pockets
A web portal has just been launched in Germany with the aim of monitoring the impact of industry funding on the academy. The site is called Hochschulwatch.de. In linguistic terms, Hochschule is a so-...
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Get them to give generously
Malcolm Gillies on how to encourage alumni donations
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Liberace: an affair to remember
The high camp of Behind the Candelabra conceals an old-fashioned love story, Duncan Wu writes
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The Democracy Project by David Graeber
Rationality yields to sentimentality in an Occupy Wall Street-inspired call for direct action, Fred Inglis finds
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Among Murderers: Life after Prison by Sabine Heinlein
Laura Piacentini ponders the power of the penal system to destroy a prisoner’s sense of self
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Higher Education in the Digital Age by William G. Bowen
Miriam E. David considers a commentary on the preservation of pedagogy in the face of technological advances
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Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine by Wendy Cadge
Pamela Klassen measures hospitals’ sacred dimensions
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Divided Nations: Why Global Governance is Failing, and What We Can Do About It by Ian Goldin
Dries Lesage on a wake-up call for 21st-century bodies no longer fit for purpose
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Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age by W. Bernard Carlson
Jon Turney on the generator of the AC power grid