#loveHE: A little more conversation, a lot more action
The global success of Coventry University’s podcasts shows that there is a huge market for intelligent HE-created content, says John Mair
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Review finds “clear agreement” that top-up fees have not deterred students
Lord Browne’s preliminary findings also indicate that the finance system for part-time students is inadequate. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Dynamic duo raise the temperature at Manchester
Two scientists who discovered graphene are listed among hottest researchers. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Pacific connection boosts partnerships Down Under
Australia and New Zealand see marked growth in research collaborations with China, reports Zoë Corbyn
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‘No science cuts? I’ll throw a party’
Adam Afriyie indicates that Tories would reduce the 2010-11 budget if they come to power. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Tara Brabazon: Giving the sector the second degree
Tara Brabazon muses on a non-graduate’s resentment at ‘taxpayer-funded’ higher education and the academy’s vision of lifelong ‘learner-earners’ buying social mobility
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Bournemouth head takes the reins at City
Paul Curran hails appointment as ‘unique privilege’. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Book of the week: Aphrodite's Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti
Katrina Schlunke finds exotic tales of Pacific island encounters to be most revealing
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The Search for the Codex Cardona: On the Trail of a Sixteenth-Century Mexican Treasure
An attempt to solve the mystery of a lost Aztec treasure doesn't crack it, says Alan Sandstrom
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Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is perhaps best remembered by millions of cinema-goers as Charlton Heston, trading terribilita with Pope Julius II (Rex Harrison) in The Agony and the Ecstasy (...
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The Canon: Studies in Classic American Literature. By D.H. Lawrence
I took a course in D.H. Lawrence from the critic Marvin Mudrick when I was a 19-year-old undergraduate. We read the three great novels, all the stories and poems, a few travel books, and the...
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Diaghilev: A Life
Anne Hogan showers praise on a terrific study of a Russian colossus and true avant-gardist
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Kristallnacht 1938
Richard J. Evans finds a crystal-clear picture of the Night of Broken Glass bolstered by trial records
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ECONOMICS- Bonfire of Illusions: The Twin Crises of the Liberal WorldBy Alex Callinicos, professor of European studies, King's College London. Polity, £45.00 and £14.99. ISBN 9780745648750 and 8767By...
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Teaching Information Literacy for Inquiry-Based Learning
Information professionals in higher education spend a considerable amount of time teaching information literacy, either through group sessions or more often one-to-one at the enquiry desk in...