News in brief - 25 April 2013
United StatesHoly trinityA US accreditation body has approved the merger of two faith colleges with a university. The Higher Learning Commission gave the go-ahead for the Assemblies of God...
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Odds and quads - 25 April 2013
This letter, signed by Charles de Gaulle, was sent to Michael D. Jones, founder of the Welsh colony in Patagonia in the 1860s, and now forms part of the archives at Bangor University devoted to the...
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Mergers, acquisitions and decades of constant change
Research paints picture of permanent revolution in sector since mid-1990s
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United front could fight UK visa battles
Australian approach offers lessons for UK, forum hears
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Critical distance, but not too far
When I served as the head of an English department in North West England, I was faced with a number of what may politely be called “challenges”. But one challenge I did not face was figuring out what...
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US sees value of higher courses in high schools
Starting university-level study in secondary school pays financial and academic dividends, writes Jon Marcus
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THE Scholarly Web - 25 April 2013
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Appointments - 25 April 2013
University of HelsinkiThomas Wilhelmsson“I need to convince myself that I should not interfere because the chancellor needs to understand that the rector does the day-to-day jobs,” said Thomas...
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Wagner: bicentennial man
Malcolm Gillies on the controversial composer’s undimmed power
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Paul Greatrix, Barry Hymer, Sara Read, Brandy Schillace and Sharon Wheeler...
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The Savage Visit: New World People and Popular Imperial Culture in Britain, 1710-1795 by Kate Fullagar
Neil Rennie on the 18th-century fascination with exotic visitors and the cultural exchange that took place
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Physics in Mind: A Quantum View of the Brain by Werner R. Loewenstein
Tristan Bekinschtein recommends a challenge to our notions of consciousness and cognition
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Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction by Judie Newman
Kate North recommends an analysis of the use of apparently contradictory concepts in selected texts over the past 15 years
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To Touch the Face of God: The Sacred, the Profane, and the American Space Program 1957-1975 by Kendrick Oliver
Margaret Weitekamp on a historical study of the relationship between religion and spaceflight
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For happy students, listen - then act
A responsive attitude and landmark infrastructure projects help to create contentment, our survey shows. Elizabeth Gibney reports