Summer reads 2014
Scholars and senior sector figures on two books they plan to devour on holiday: a new must-read and a classic worthy of revisiting
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The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945, by Richard Overy
Jill Stephenson praises a study of terror from the skies
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Australia sets sights on rebuilding overseas student market
Government speeds visas and extends post-study work opportunities
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Industry report compares European and US biotech
Brussels, 09 Jun 2005 A new study for the European Association for Bioindustries (EuropaBio) finds the European biotechnology sector in good health compared with the USA. It is as dynamic as its US...
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Globally renowned
The World Reputation Rankings measure an increasingly vital element in the social-network age, says Phil Baty
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Critics sceptical of EPSRC review outcome
Council’s structure must be more ‘transparent and inclusive’, report finds. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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HBOS and London Met: case studies in poor governance
Universities must ensure that governing bodies are fit to do their part to prevent crises, Michael Shattock says
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Money and old tropes
The academy is paying too much, not too little, heed to calls for adaptability to the market, says Hannah Forsyth
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Economy needs '10,000 extra science graduates'
The UK needs to educate at least an extra 10,000 science graduates a year just to maintain its current industrial position, a major new report has concluded.
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Roger Brown, Jim Butcher, Tina Haux, Hillegonda Rietveld and Sharon Wheeler...
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The REF: how was it for you?
Research heads and other university staff on the burdens of submitting to the inaugural research excellence framework
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Hollywood and Hitler 1933-1939 by Thomas Doherty
Philip Kemp on how the American film industry reacted variously to the rise of fascism in Germany
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Fascism out of focus
Philip Kemp on how the US movie industry mostly ignored the rise of Fascism in Germany
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Alan Harrison, 1944-2012
A successful industrialist who went on to become an academic expert on operations management has died.Alan Harrison was born in Oxfordshire on 25 November 1944 and educated at Abingdon School before...