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  1. Grant winners - 3 April 2014

    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilResearch GrantsAward winner: Rowland KaoInstitution: University of GlasgowValue: £773,448Joint estimation of epidemiological and genetic...

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  2. The week in higher education - 3 April 2014

    Labour is to slash maximum tuition fees to £6,000 a year and may reduce them to as little as £4,000, The Sunday Times reported on 30 March. Ed Miliband, the party’s leader, is expected to pledge to...

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  4. Inhale…and relax

    Further to “Advice squad”, the feature about PhD supervision ( March). In 1988, when I still smoked, I had my PhD viva in the department of government at the University of Manchester. My supervisor,...

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  5. Vital facts pinned down

    Ray Stoneham worries that a “seismic shift to online discourse” will leave academics, who are not on first-name terms with modern-day referencing, “in their ivory towers calculating the number of...

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  6. Unhappy resolution

    I am a senior lecturer at a UK university who has been in post for more than 10 years. Until two years ago, I would have paid scant attention to the story “PhD scholarship appeal bid fails” (News,...

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  7. Reading problems

    I think that Julian Elliott has not gone far enough in his criticisms of the dyslexia myth and industry (Letters, 20 March; “Is it time to rethink dyslexia?”, Opinion, 6 March). As a practising...

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  8. Upping access Down Under

    In regard to “Lifting the cap ‘fails to widen access’ in ߣߣƵ” (News, March), your article on the impact that ߣߣƵ’s approach to funding higher education by demand rather than supply has...

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  9. Primed and readied

    The feature “The rise of the route masters” (20 March) could have benefited from contrasting private pre-degree schemes with the aims and values of some of the earliest university foundation...

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  10. Open must be affordable

    We are grateful to members of the web community, including Peter Murray-Rust (“Blogger set on smoothing road to open access”, News, March), who are working hard to enrich the data on open access...

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  11. On academic issues, law bows to managers

    Having sat through most of the hearing and considered the judges’ remarks as the case proceeded (“Queen Mary critic loses unfair dismissal claim”, March), I formed the view that what most colleagues...

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  13. Number of students starting PhDs falls

    The number of students beginning PhDs funded by six research councils has fallen by more than 20 per cent since 2009-10

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