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World in brief - 13 March 2014
United StatesBright ideas on the blockA US university is to auction off some of its intellectual property licences. Successful bidders will obtain licensing rights to patents derived from research...
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Grant winners - 13 March 2014
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilResearch GrantsAward winner: Sue HartleyInstitution: University of YorkValue: £313,008Establishing biofumigation as a sustainable replacement to...
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THE Scholarly Web - 13 March 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Q&A with Michael Rosen
We speak to the professor of children’s literature at Goldsmiths, University of London
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Lance Davis, 1928-2014
A pioneering economic historian, whose work examined everything from banking and imperialism to whaling, has died
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News in brief - 13 March 2014
Financial healthDark clouds on horizonSlowing growth in international student numbers could have “a material impact on the sector”, along with looming pension liabilities. Those are among the...
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Short and sweet
Open letter to Georgina Edsel, Deputy Head of Brand Management, Poppleton UniversityI feel I must write and say how grateful we are for your help in publicising our decision to simplify our name. I...
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Collegial distinctions
Re: “Durham’s colleges fear changes will downgrade them to halls of residence”, News, February). This has been a bone of contention for 40 years. It’s time the university differentiated itself...
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Fit to judge in the REF?
The feature “The REF: how was it for you?” ( February) reports: “Typically, heads of research say that their institutions did this [assessed the quality of research produced by staff] by using a...
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Bursaries’ individual impact
You report the finding from the Office for Fair Access that neither the size nor the availability of a bursary had a discernible effect on whether a student from a poor background would finish a...
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Satisfaction’s limits
Many questions are raised by the case of the former lecturer at Imperial College London who claims that poor student satisfaction ratings led to her being dismissed (“Taxing lectures led to sacking,...
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Securing education futures
Patrick Ainley (“Public interest defence”, Letters, 6 March) chooses to conflate the proposed merger between University College London and the Institute of Education, University of London with the...
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Gaps in support
Many disabled international students in UK universities encounter multiple disadvantages. The general prospectus may lack disability-specific information and cultural sensitivity, which can add to a...