World in brief - 26 June 2014
Source: AlamyUnited StatesDiscount tuition for Starbucks employeesStarbucks is partnering with Arizona State University to offer its employees heavily discounted undergraduate degrees. The Starbucks...
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Grant winners - 26 June 2014
Action Medical ResearchAward winner: David W. CarmichaelInstitution: University College LondonValue: £164,035Epilepsy in children – improving scanning before surgeryAward winner: Elizabeth...
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Anthony Kelly, 1929-2014
The second vice-chancellor of the University of Surrey, who steered his institution through the upheavals of the 1980s, has died
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Q&A with Sir Brian Hoskins
We speak to professor of meteorology at the University of Reading and chair of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London
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THE Scholarly Web - 26 June 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World, by Gillen D’Arcy Wood
Alison Stokes on a 19th-century volcanic eruption that caused a global climate disaster
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Malaysia changes targets for postgraduates
Government aims to train 60,000 students at postgraduate level over next nine years
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Lost without translation: scientific research
Accurate scientific translation is vital, say Meredith Root-Bernstein and Richard Ladle
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Problems ahead if tuition fees remain capped, warns v-c
Spiralling costs and frozen domestic income mean that some universities will be ‘completely stuffed’ within three years, claims Anglia Ruskin leader
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Home Office student visa clampdown rocks sector
Fears of further reputational damage after licence suspensions
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Shootings ‘a wake-up call’, says Berkeley chancellor
Welfare and gun checks are part of the shield against campus violence
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King’s staff vote for strike action over job cuts
Staff at King’s College London are set to take industrial action over planned redundancies in three health schools
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New students ‘have forgotten bulk of A-level knowledge’
Students have forgotten more than half of what they learned in their A levels by their first week of university, a new study says
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QAA launches inquiry into London branch campuses
Announcement follows immigration minister’s statement on student visa crackdown
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Glyndwr visa licence suspended amid Home Office crackdown
Universities of West London and Bedfordshire also told they cannot sponsor new international students