Midlands giant visits Windy City to learn from Midwest peers
The University of Birmingham sent senior administrators to two US institutions for a “transatlantic summit” as part of its preparations for the UK’s more market-oriented funding regime.
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Need a chancellor? Best knock on Sainsbury’s door
Lord Sainsbury of Turville, the businessman and former science minister, has been nominated by the University of Cambridge to succeed the Duke of Edinburgh as chancellor after the royal stands down...
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Sharp tools: use with care
Rankings provide insights that can help guide policymakers, but politicians must be aware of their inherent limitations, says Phil Baty
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Visa reforms may have devastating impact on overseas take-up, Labour warns
A number of universities fear that up to a third of overseas postgraduate students may fail to take up their places this autumn due to changes to visa rules, it has been claimed.
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
A return to the beginning of history recasts the story of modernisation. Frank Furedi is enlightened
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Confessions of a Young Novelist: The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature
Christoph Bode gets a backstage pass to the creation of a scholar's fiction and his academic work
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Sex, Tourism and the Postcolonial Encounter: Landscapes of Longing in Egypt
Like so many other people, I am often tired and drowning in a morass of demands. At these times I long to be somewhere calm, hot and by the sea because, as Jessica Jacobs points out, a beach holiday...
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Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science
Does the world need another book about Richard Feynman? The legendary physicist's life and work is nothing if not well documented. There are scholarly studies of his main contributions to science, in...
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The Future of Power
Will the world be steered by a benign hegemon or by darker forces? Andrew Gamble wonders
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How Intelligence Happens
This is an elegant book. The elegance begins with its appearance: slender, with sparing cover adornment in subdued colours, and no capital letters in the title or the author's name. It continues with...
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Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography
More than 72 years after his death, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is still omnipresent in Turkey. Travellers arrive at Istanbul's Atatürk International Airport, pass the Atatürk Stadium on their way into the...
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On Being: A Scientist's Exploration of the Great Questions of Existence
John Harris finds perverse enjoyment in a gleefully bleak consideration of the meaning of life
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The Life and Times of Stella Browne: Feminist and Free Spirit
In 1937, the middle-aged "Miss" Stella Browne, when giving evidence to the UK Government's Interdepartmental Committee on Abortion, delivered a thunderbolt - she told the committee that she knew from...
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Bastard Culture! How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production
The term "bastard culture" refers to unofficial culture. Although Mirko Tobias Schäfer does not dwell on this in much detail, it derives from "bastard pop", the transformation of two music recordings...
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Stressed out by glass walls, videos and dimmer switches
Diana Garrisi looks at issues troubling lecturers in the Share project's latest batch of daily diaries