19 December 2013
Different track - China follows its own course to the top
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THE Scholarly Web - 19 December 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Jing Lyman, 1925-2013
A “first lady” of Stanford University, who played a crucial role in setting up one of the US’ leading institutes for gender research, has died
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News in brief - 19 December 2013
United StatesBucks start hereUniversities in Michigan are worth $23 billion (£14 billion) a year to the state, a study has found. The survey, commissioned by the Presidents Council, State...
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Odds and quads - 19 December 2013
The items shown here are all owned by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and are among the objects that appear in its online interactive 2013 seasonal calendar, with audio recordings...
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News in brief - 19 December 2013
CIPR Education Journalism AwardsHonours for THE writersߣߣƵ journalists have been honoured at a national awards ceremony. The annual Chartered Institute of Public Relations...
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Tinkling with no ivories
So, Newcastle University academics have found that “losing one’s teeth can be as emotionally damaging as losing a limb” (“Sans teeth, sans confidence”, Campus round-up, 12 December). Also worrying is...
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Reaping the whirlwind
Open letter to Wallace Hayes, editor-in-chief, Food and Chemical Toxicology, and ElsevierYour decision to retract the paper “Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant...
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Commodity trading
It is a great shame that Jim O’Neill’s recent article, seemingly helpful to the UK and its universities, fails to acknowledge its own particular ideological stance (“Mind power: in BRICs and MINTs,...
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High interest statement
In his Autumn Statement, Chancellor George Osborne said: “So today I can announce that next year we will provide 30,000 more student places – and the year after we will abolish the cap on student...
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Truly hostile environment
Phil Clark’s recent article in ߣߣƵ strongly implies that foreign scholars – like us – who claim that it is difficult to do careful field research in post-genocide Rwanda do not...
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Pretty vacant in pink study
Steven Rose’s excellent article is a much-needed antidote to the “neuro” fad (“Grey matters”, 12 December). I listened recently to a repeated BBC Radio 4 programme about little girls’ preference for...
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Cameron’s careless Chinese whispers
On 5 December, during an official visit to China, Prime Minister David Cameron was widely reported to have advised UK school pupils to “look beyond…French and German” and to start Mandarin lessons...
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Hopes and fears of all the year
It’s been bedlam out there in 2013: Russell Group a-rising, visa plans off-putting - and still not enough ladies leading
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The week in higher education - 19 December 2013
As Christmas nears, the papers soak up booze-related stories like sponges. On 13 December, The Daily Telegraph reported a claim in a British Medical Journal paper that James Bond’s martini intake –...