Tweet victory or much ado? Jury still out on social media
Poll detects uncertainty about efficacy among marketers and alumni. Hannah Fearn reports
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Odds and quads
Dom Sylvester Houedard (1924-92), often known as DSH, served with British military intelligence in Asia before becoming a Benedictine monk at Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire.While running the...
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Franz Schurmann, 1926-2010
An academic expert on China and global politics who was also a pioneering journalist has died.Franz Schurmann, the son of a German mother and a Slovenian father, was born in New York on 21 June 1926...
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The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History
Donald MacRaild is impressed by a new spin on British imperialism, seen through the eyes of siblings
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East v West and other conference sessions
Is internationalisation a Western construct?Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, the vice-chancellor of University Sains Malaysia, argued that if internationalisation really was solely about the exchange of...
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After the exodus, will foreign students return to Japan?
Universities face an uncertain future in the wake of the earthquake, reports Michael Fitzpatrick
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Mobile Communications: An Introduction to New Media
Authors: Nicola Green and Leslie HaddonEdition: FirstPublisher: A&C Black/BergPages: 190Price: £55.00 and £16.99ISBN 9781845208134 and 8141Mobile communication technologies have transformed human...
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Harvard best university for eighth year running
Harvard University has topped an annual world university ranking compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University for the eighth year in a row.The league table is once again dominated by US institutions,...
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The Fate of Greenland: Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change
Rapid global temperature shifts are nothing new, as Steve Yearley learns from a cold country's core
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Science colossus shrinks in stature as rest of the world starts to catch up
Too much research concentration may have contributed to the erosion of the US' position as a "colossus of science".A new report by Thomson Reuters shows that although the average citation impact of...
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Popular opinion: THE calls and the world answers
Targeted global scholars respond in droves to Academic Reputation Survey. Phil Baty reports
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- A Chord in Time: The Evolution of the Augmented Sixth from Monteverdi to MahlerBy Mark Ellis, theory, analysis and musicology tutor, University of Huddersfield...
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News in Brief
CanadaCheers for 310 new chairsA C$5.6 million (£173 million) injection of funds for science and technology research aims to put Canada among the world leaders in those fields. Tony Clement, the...
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The regional powers in world physics
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, 1981-2007