University of Lancaster
Professor Garik Markarian has joined researchers at the university’s InfoLab21 where he takes up a chair in communication systems. Professor Markarian is formerly director of the Institute of...
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University of Huddersfield
Keith Webb, former Huddersfield Technical College tutor, University lecturer and current director of the University of Huddersfield Consortium for Post-Compulsory Education and Training (CPCET) has...
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University of Westminster
David Hendy, reader in media and communication, has won the History Today - Longman Book of the Year Award for his book Life on Air: A History of Radio Four.
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NERC deal could rescue ground-based solar physics
A deal to save the UK’s solar terrestrial physics, the branch of science that studies “space weather”, could be on the cards, according to one of Parliament’s leading science campaigners.The Science...
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The weary H.E. world of Gloria Monday
Forget the fantasies of dreaming spires and eager young minds. Gloria Monday’s academic world is one of sick buildings, indifferent students and endless bureaucracy
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A takeaway delivery
Reducing numbers of arts postgrads was bad enough, but the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s cuts in grants and funding are the final straw for Simon Blackburn
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Liverpool Hope University
David Weir has joined as professor of intercultural management. Rosie Sage has been appointed professor of communication in education; previously she was director of studies in the Centre for Raising...
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Supporting care-leavers in higher education
Proper support for care-leavers in higher education, and encouragement for children in case to consider university, is essential
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Corrections
In last week's feature on university access, "Reaching out but still falling short", the University of Northampton was incorrectly named as an institution that the Office for Fair Access said it had...
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Music at the Limits
Pick up an English-language newspaper in search of music criticism and you will find terse, clipped accounts of concerts, CDs and DVDs (far more pop than classical). Such reviews may well be...
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Educational Resource Management: An International Perspective
Derek Glover and Rosalind Levacic have produced a practical work of reference that rather ambitiously endeavours to mesh the technical with the general and to make all of it accessible to non-experts...
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Book of the week: My Unwritten Books
Fred Inglis on a fierce, foolish, joyous wishlist.
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The week in books
Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generationby David Edwards, founder of Le Laboratoire, in Paris. Harvard University Press, £12.95, ISBN 9780674026254"The book is less a technical tool than...
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Between Iraq and a hard place
In an otherwise usefully myth-debunking work on risk management in an age of war, Bill Durodié looks in vain for an admission that debate on the invasion must go beyond cost-benefit analysis.