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News in brief - 15 August 2013
Widening participationStill a struggle below poverty lineChildren from the poorest families remain about half as likely to enter higher education as their more affluent peers, according to government...
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News in brief - 15 August 2013
United StatesPolitical squeezeA major US funding agency will not allocate cash to any new political science research for the remainder of 2013. The National Science Foundation took the decision less...
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Mike Morwood, 1950-2013
An archaeologist who discovered the bones of a “hobbit” in Indonesia, which may represent a completely new species of early human, has died
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THE Scholarly Web - 15 August 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Grant winners - 15 August 2013
Economic and Social Research CouncilTransformative Research Call: ‘Transforming’ Social ScienceMaximum limit of £250,000; will run for 18 months.Award winner: Chris WebsterInstitution: Cardiff...
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Campus round-up - 15 August 2013
Source: GettyFor good growth, add soap and waterChildren under the age of five who have access to clean water and soap are half a centimetre taller than those who lack such basics, a study shows. The...
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How to reach the many offline students
Educators cannot assume that all young people are old hands online, research shows
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Scholars’ dilemma resounds in China
A new play animates the debate over academics’ moral quandaries
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Palestinians, Israelis live and learn together at City University London
Olive Tree Programme offers ‘special space’ for cohort drawn from both sides of conflict zone
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Metropolitan follies
How can a university “outgrow” a name such as “Metropolitan” (Campus round-up, 8 August) and how does “Beckett” encompass anything wider? Do the leaders of Leeds Metropolitan University not have...
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Buy now, regret later
Cary Cooper’s review of The Triumph of Emptiness: Consumption, Higher Education, and Work Organization mentions the “consumption paradox”, the notion that as we become more affluent, we become less...
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Professional identities
Fred Inglis’ rage against marketing and the way corporate identities are reported to be created for universities (“Incinerated by the branding iron”, 18 July) may be shared by many academics and...
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System-wide thinking
Jon Turney’s review of Toby Tyrrell’s On Gaia: A Critical Investigation of the Relationship between Life and Earth (Books, 8 August) refers to Tyrrell’s proposal that the Gaia hypothesis is not a...
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Silence and selfish genes
While it may be true that “sustained practices of silence are profoundly transformative…of one’s spiritual and ethical perspective” (“Giving but not yielding”, Features, 8 August), apparently they do...