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  1. News in brief - 27 November 2014

    Source: Gil C/Shutterstock.comOpen access mandateGates Foundation sets the paceThe Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced that all academic papers and datasets arising out of its funding...

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  3. Lost in the shirtstorm

    As you report in The Week in Higher Education (20 November), European Space Agency scientist Matt Taylor hit the headlines not only for his role in landing a craft on a comet but also for wearing an...

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  4. Cicero’s incalculable gifts

    So Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones “would willingly obliterate every word of Cicero” for just one book of Ctesias’ lost work Persian Things (“Listen, and let us take you back”, Books, 13 November). Farewell,...

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  5. Uniform alignments

    Chris Rust’s article “Unknown qualities” (Features, 13 November) raises interesting questions about UK degree standards.Why shouldn’t universities be exposed to the same levels of scrutiny as schools...

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  6. Science slighted

    As a science academic, I found Sarah Churchwell’s essay rather depressing (“Humanities: why the study of human culture still matters”, 13 November).The article conflates the enjoyment of culture and...

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  7. Mistakes and potatoes

    It is difficult to credit events at Swansea University’s School of Management. The Family Piercy have been in post for more than 18 months, a period characterised by a significant number of staff...

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  8. Members make their pension statement

    Ninety members of the University and College Union sign a letter to ߣߣƵ condemning the UCU’s compromise action on pensions (20 November), and THE gives this considerable prominence...

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  9. The week in higher education - 27 November 2014

    BBC bosses are considering introducing a quota of at least one woman per team on University Challenge amid fears that it is “probably the most unrepresentative show on TV”, The Times reported on 20...

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  10. Just let the drivers get on with it

    Universities already play a key role in powering regional growth. Another diktat demanding more on that score may be unhelpful

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  11. Welsh terriers: shock analogy

    Suggestions that there might be “parallels” between the language used to postgraduate student complainants by the Dean of Swansea University’s School of Management and the reproof issued by our Head...

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  13. The precariousness of part-timers

    More than half of part‑time academic staff are on fixed-term contracts, compared with only a quarter of those who work full-time, a new report has revealed

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