UK sector still ‘thin’ on Islamic finance teaching
Despite government optimism over UK’s future role, university provision remains limited, forum hears
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Engineering recruitment back on track
2013-14 figures assuage fears of course closures
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US academy declares growing passion for cricket
Sport’s on-campus growth reflects rising number of overseas students in country
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Continental drift
David Willetts, in the recently published pamphlet Robbins Revisited: Bigger and Better Higher Education (Social Market Foundation), makes three references to Europe. That puts him ahead of an...
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Hope for convicts via fashion outreach
Students work with female prisoners on The Beauty’s Inside project
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Jeremy Black, Avril Goodwin, Stephen Halliday, A. W. Purdue and June Purvis...
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Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour, by Carol Mavor
Philip Hoare floats away on a poetic enquiry into the extraordinary nature of what surrounds us
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Do Muslim Women Need Saving?, by Lila Abu-Lughod
The convictions of those involved in efforts to ‘rescue’ women from religion will be unsettled by this work, says Madawi Al-Rasheed
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Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality, by Edward Frenkel
Noel-Ann Bradshaw on a work that unlocks maths’ power and beauty by weaving it into an inspirational autobiography
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The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century, by David Reynolds
Alex Danchev on how Britain has remembered and misremembered the First World War
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Shakespeare and Memory, by Hester Lees-Jeffries
Jerome de Groot on time, recollection and the Bard
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Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants, by Sunil Amrith
Caroline Osella on a page-turning survey of people and politics in a region once at the heart of global trade and imperial histories
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A front-row view of Louisiana’s slow death
Anna Hartnell takes part in an immersive theatre experience that has audiences bear witness to environmental catastrophe
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‘Big stick’ is the only way forward
Only threat of further strikes will force Ucea to renegotiate pay, unions say
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Jim Al-Khalili calls for scientific Arab Spring
In Cara lecture, Iraqi-born physicist calls for revival of region’s thirst for knowledge