University of Birmingham strikes called off
Two planned strikes over compulsory redundancies and performance management at the University of Birmingham have been called off.
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Michael Gunn elected Million+ chair
The vice-chancellor of Staffordshire University has been announced as the new chair of the Million+ group of post-1992 universities.
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Student visas fall by a fifth
The number of visas issued to overseas students has fallen by a fifth although applications for university student visas have increased by 3 per cent, according to the latest figures from the Office...
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Time and motion studies
Not only do medieval travellers’ tales provide students with a compelling account of history rooted in personal experience, they also promote cross-cultural understanding in the present day, argues...
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Becoming Sexual by R. Danielle Egan
Mary Evans discusses moral panic and girls’ sexualisation
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News in brief
AustraliaIndian pipeline running dryThe number of Indian students starting at Australian universities has dropped by almost a quarter, according to government body Australian Education International...
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Campus round-up - 28 February 2013
Fitting imageWhen Will Brooker, head of the film and television department at Kingston University, visited a comic shop recently, he “felt very alienated by the way female characters are all pin-ups...
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THE Scholarly Web - 28 February 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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From Where I Sit - Adapt, survive and thrive
Growing up in Australia in the 1950s, I was often asked what I would do when I left school. As a child who lived and worked on a grape and orange farm that my family had created in the middle of...
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Appointments - 28 February 2013
Charles Sturt UniversityTim WessThe new executive dean of the faculty of science at Charles Sturt University in Australia, Tim Wess, said that in addition to the excitement and delight of a new job,...
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Hamid Ghodse, 1938-2012
A leading international authority on substance abuse and drug addiction, known for the compassion he showed towards the afflicted, has died.
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John Gilbey, Paul Greatrix, David Kennedy, Sharon Ruston and Peter J. Smith...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture after Images by Edward Dimendberg
This survey of the work of an innovative practice leaves Flora Samuel wishing for about places, plans and politics
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In Search of a Concrete Music by Pierre Schaeffer
David Revill on the creator of an unconventional musical genre
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News in brief
MoocsMore massive and multilingual tooTwo leading US massive open online course providers have each almost doubled the number of universities offering courses on their respective platforms. Coursera...