Campus round-up - 26 September 2013
Source: ReutersEggs benedictionA research project is under way that aims to shed light on how the relationship between humans and chickens has developed over the past 8,000 years. Led by Mark Maltby...
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Campus round-up
Eggs benedictionA research project is under way that aims to shed light on how the relationship between humans and chickens has developed over the past 8,000 years. Led by Mark Maltby, reader in...
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Working Lives: Gender, Migration and Employment in Britain, 1945- 2007, by Linda McDowell
Pat Thane on a book that provides important insights into the experience of female immigrants
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The Rise of China vs the Logic of Strategy
The rise of China has provoked such shock and awe that predictions of the time when the People’s Republic will dominate the world have become commonplace. Sustained strong economic growth, especially...
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Where do you think you’re going, eminent Cambridge scientist from overseas?
Cambridge lab staff had to keep weekly record of whereabouts, master complains. John Elmes writes
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Eyewitness: Lifeline for South Asia's child labourers
Nepal's carpet industry has been a lucrative source of foreign earnings for one of the world's poorest countries, but its reliance on child labour has been heavily criticised. Children toil for hours...
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Branch breaking point? Investor abandons Napier's Hong Kong venture
Edinburgh Napier outpost uncertain after Hong Kong land use dispute. David Matthews reports
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Edinburgh Napier’s Hong Kong plans lose financial backing
Planned outpost at Queen’s Hill uncertain after concerns over land use protest
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Headaches for Uclan over foreign campuses
Thailand, Cyprus and Sri Lanka initiatives bring fiscal losses and criticism
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Cambridge forced to keep tabs on foreign scientists
Foreign academics had to account for their whereabouts each week, university master complains
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Chinese assets and liabilities for Hong Kong ‘hub’ plans
Global push complicated by mainland links
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Campus in Focus - Queen Mary, University of London
A fresh era dawns for one of the Russell Group’s newest, and least typical, members. Plus the latest campus news from around the UK
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12 world leaders who attended UK universities
Some of the world’s most powerful graduates demonstrate the influence of UK universities
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EdX signs up 15 new members
The US massive open online course platform edX has signed up 15 more universities, more than doubling its number of higher education partners.
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Rivalry hits Oz market in Asia
The lack of a coherent strategy to market Australian education institutions in Asia is putting a Aus$3 billion-a-year (Pounds 1.2 million) export industry at risk, according federal government...