News in brief - 29 August 2013
ThailandOrigami for eyes to defeat cheatsStudents at a Thai university will not take any more exams while wearing paper blinkers on their heads. Lecturers in the Faculty of Agro-Industry at Kasetsart...
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News in brief - 29 August 2013
Technology strategy supportCetis consultancy relaunchedThe Centre for Educational Technology, Interoperability and Standards has been relaunched with a remit to widen its client base. Last year, the...
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Crick Institute to give 12-year core funding to early career scientists
Independence enables biomedical laboratory to offer stability and freedom to researchers
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THE Scholarly Web - 29 August 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Arthur C. Aufderheide, 1922-2013
A “mummy doctor” who combined a distinguished career as a pathologist with pioneering research on the diseases of the ancient world has died
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Appointments - 29 August 2103
Indiana University-Purdue University IndianapolisAnthony ‘AJ’ Baucum IIAnthony “AJ” Baucum II, recently appointed assistant professor of biology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis,...
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Campus round-up - 29 August 2013
Source: PADry run for disasterA mock terror attack may furnish valuable insights into emergency service response. Academics from King’s College London monitored the emergency procedures deployed for...
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Strictly Gaia
I would like to thank John Gilbert (Letters, 15 August) for his kind words about my book On Gaia (reviewed by Jon Turney, 8 August). However, I would like to clarify that I do not make a “category...
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Altruistic contributions
Tabulating the place of UK universities in terms of their contribution to industry (“Korean kudos (UK also-rans)”, 15 August) presents only a partial view of the external role of the university...
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Slow food for thought
Gary Thomas (“Have to admit it’s getting better, a little better all the time”, 15 August), as befits a professor of education, believes that with reference to intelligence “our abilities are getting...
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Right combination
As much as I can see why many people would think that overturning the Oxbridge rule of combination would make the applications process “fairer” (“Competition questions over rule that restricts...
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No commodification
The article “‘Political experiment’ must not reduce education to a commodity” (15 August) informs us that “the UK’s pool of higher education experts…has arguably taken a turn to the right”. It then...
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Profile-raising
The very useful perspectives reported in the feature “Putting women in the frame” (22 August) nonetheless require clarification on two points. First, although some external funding bodies have chosen...
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The point of NSS is points
It is hardly surprising that institutions use gaming strategies to try to bolster their scores on the National Student Survey (“Hold bad news about grades until after NSS”, 15 August). This has been...
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UK still suffers trips of the tongues
Your editorial “A timely look under the bonnet” (22 August) is right to draw attention to the issue of language degrees, but one of the figures was inaccurate. As of 23 August, the number of students...