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Reconsider long working hours, says Patience Schell, for leisure is vital for mind, body and productivity
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The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language, by John H. McWhorter
Kerstin Hoge on a manifesto correcting the view that the language we speak affects how we think
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7 August 2014
Drift away - Why academics do better work with some rest and play
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Crowdsourcing to fund studies
It is becoming more common to ask members of the public to pay your fees, but is it acceptable?
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Appointments - 7 August 2014
The latest higher education appointments
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Q&A with Bashir Makhoul
We speak to the Palestinian artist and pro vice-chancellor (academic portfolio and market development) at Birmingham City University
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Norman Gibson, 1931-2014
A towering figure in Northern Irish higher education, notable for his “courage, integrity and independence of mind”, has died
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World in brief - 7 August 2014
Source: AlamyUnited StatesWomen under-represented at the topOnly 40 per cent of vice-presidents and deans of admission at US universities are female, despite the fact that 70 per cent of admissions...
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Grant winners - 7 August 2014
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilStandard researchAward winner: Jiawei MiInstitution: University of HullValue: £308,737Development of efficient and scalable ultrasound-assisted...
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News in brief - 7 August 2014
Female vice-chancellorsAnd then there were threeJanet Beer has been named as the next vice-chancellor at the University of Liverpool. Professor Beer, currently vice-chancellor of Oxford Brookes...
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Going to waste
Shame on the University of the Arts London for its po-faced reaction to Ann Plumb’s ceramic turds (“Scatological art difficult to pass”, News, 31 July). What would the costive UAL make of the faecal...
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Ceremonial duties
At the University of Portsmouth, where I lecture, all graduands receive two free graduation tickets and pay just £10 for extra tickets. But when our younger son graduated from his university recently...
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Hefce’s supporting role
The report on the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s role in learning and teaching (“ ‘Superficial’: £500m fails to develop class acts”, News, 31 July) was commissioned by the Higher...
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Lost in abbreviated history
The disturbances in Ukraine should make us rethink the policy of updating history courses at all levels by bringing the starting points progressively closer to the present. At the moment, the 16th...