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Campus round-up
University of BathTime out for good measureThe Rugby Football Union and Premiership Rugby have recruited a team of three academics to evaluate a new method of examining injured players for concussion...
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Market 'has not changed university hierarchy', says report
Introducing tuition fees of up to Β£9,000 will not change the hierarchy of British universities because applicants generally pick an institution based on its prestige and history, a new study suggests.
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Smells like techno spirit for new intake
They have never used an airline ticket, or had cause to consult a set of bound encyclopaedias, and regard point-and-shoot cameras as "soooooo last millennium".
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London Met takes legal action over visa licence
London Metropolitan University is to take legal action to challenge the revocation of its licence to admit international students, saying it has a duty to the higher education sector to challenge the...
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City University wrongly connected with London Met crisis
A translation error by Chinese news agencies has dragged another higher education institution into the London Metropolitan University visa controversy.
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Grading Clout?
By Alexandra Tilsley, for Inside Higher Ed
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UEL opens doors to London Met students
The University of East London has set up a hotline for London Metropolitan University students, in a bid to attract those facing deportation in the wake of the visa scandal.
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UK sector will take hit from London Met visa scandal, senior figures warn
The decision to strip London Metropolitan University of its licence to recruit overseas students has implications βfor the whole UK sectorβ, according to the vice-president of Universities UK.
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Animals Erased: Discourse, Ecology and Reconnection with the Natural World
Christopher Belshaw prefers the style to the substance of this 'alternative' approach to wildlife
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Care to Dare: Unleashing Astonishing Potential Through Secure Base Leadership
Leadership is a contested paradigm, and that is about the only thing upon which leadership scholars and practitioners usually agree. Many learned and experienced people have sought, over decades if...
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Saints, Sacrilege and Sedition: Religion and Conflict in the Tudor Reformations
To begin with, an irritation: historians long ago lost the battle to have footnotes where they should be, at the foot of each page, but there can be no excuse for a serious publisher to stick them at...
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The Black Hole of the Camera: The Films of Andy Warhol
Mandy Merck evaluates a surprising study of a US icon's visionary, sometimes cosmic, cinema
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The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts
The recent trial of Anders Breivik, the Norwegian man who went on a killing spree that left 77 people dead, focused very specifically on the defendant's state of mind. Was he deranged? Or was he...
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The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body
My favourite science book is Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, so when I read Bryson's complimentary words on the dust jacket of The Spark of Life, I was impressed. This text is the...