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UK universities – it’s time to go to India
In five year’s time, India will have the largest number of students enrolled in higher education. The UK can’t sit back, it must go to India, urges report UK universities must go to India if they are to benefit from a shake up to international higher education which will see India enrolling the largest number […]
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Twitter journal: would you share your original research on social media?
Will the launch of the first Twitter-only journal, publishing original peer-reviewed research direct to the reader, take off? Last week, I received a tweet from @janremm who was midway through a conversation – on Twitter – about how to cite tweets within academic research. She was talking with @jotaigna, who asked in what way a […]
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Slave trade documents among illegal Foreign Office cache
Papers might provide information for people seeking compensation for ancestors’ suffering, says historian Historic papers about the slave trade are among the enormous cache of public documents that the Foreign Office has unlawfully hoarded in a secret archive, the Guardian has learned. Some of the papers appear to date back to 1662 and are thought […]
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Language police, smart babies and linguistics online – languages news round up
A round up of languages in the news finds that babies can detect different languages, a boom of online language learning and the French aren’t happy about a particular English abbreviation More than 100 million people are going online to learn a language Writing in Wired, the co-founder of Babbel, a language learning tool, explains […]
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Why student fieldtrips make an impact
Ayona Datta offers six reasons why the impact of teaching fieldtrips goes beyond students and deserves to be counted Impact in recent years has become the most dreaded and controversial concept that has taken over both the Research Excellence Framework (REF) – how university funding and the fate of academic careers is measured – as […]
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Mandela and me: how our chance encounter influenced my research
Bumping into Mandela on her return to South Africa inspired expat academic Candi Miller to make a difference With the death of Nelson Mandela – Madiba to South Africans – I’ve wondered if a chance encounter with him almost 20 years ago wasn’t in some way responsible for my academic career and research interest. I […]