News in brief - 4 July 2013
United StatesSTEM cell aims to raise standardsAn organisation representing 62 elite US universities has selected eight members to serve as project sites for a five-year initiative aimed at improving...
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Maurice Hutt, 1928-2013
A leading historian of revolutionary France who helped to create the University of Sussex has died
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THE Scholarly Web - 4 July 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Spending review’s winners and losers
Andy Westwood on the shift from ‘human’ to ‘intellectual’ capital
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Working time directive: less is more
Limiting hours would lift the burden on women, says Sally Feldman
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Social science’s noun of thorns
Michael Billig on the weaknesses of a discipline’s usage
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News in brief - 4 July 2013
Women in scienceThey’re gone – but why and where?The Lords Science and Technology Committee is to carry out an inquiry into why so many women drop out of academic science. Its notice announcing the...
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Stick up for the EU and its euros
Cardiff v-c Colin Riordan tells sector to support Europe if a referendum is held
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Lofty ideals
In the 1960s, the University of Stirling’s first principal, the late Tom Cottrell, entertained us students at his new home on the beautiful campus. Perhaps his present-day successor Gerry McCormac...
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Give and take
Chris Higgins reflects on university funding against the backdrop of the coalition’s continuing cuts to education spending (“(Almost) all donations gratefully received”, June). He focuses on...
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Old, familiar stain
Regarding “Barefaced cheating in China’s bull market for student fraud” (News, 13 June): this phenomenon is not new, as I found similar problems in the early 1990s when I was an academic. The easiest...
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Memory lapse
In her generous review of Permanent Present Tense: The Man with No Memory and What He Taught the World, Suzanne Corkin’s enthralling study of the amnesiac Henry Molaison, Morgan Barense highlights...
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Too short a seasoning
I am worried about the “‘oven-ready chickens’ for business” that City of Bath College lecturer John Curry thinks the UK needs (“Cut the arts, share the pain or scrap the REF: reader panel thoughts on...
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Tours of booty
Last week the real University of Oxford held open days as part of its widening-access initiative. Fantasy Oxford has open days for tourists every day, with the Mad Hatter Tour and the Harry Potter...
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‘Crown jewels’ are flawed
Universities and science minister David Willetts has persuaded the coalition to spend millions of pounds on a new national birth cohort study, and Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee – although “...