Campus round-up - 20 June 2013
Source: GettyRemember themEducation experts will lead a project to send two pupils and a teacher from every state secondary school to the battlefields of the First World War. Working with the...
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News in brief - 20 June 2013
ߣߣƵTesting times for TeqsaߣߣƵ’s new higher education regulator faces a test of its powers after it emerged that two private institutions have challenged some of its decisions. Stott’s...
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Odds and quads - 20 June 2013
These images represent highlights from a collection of almost 200 rare books, incunabula and manuscripts donated by the businessman Henry Davis (1897-1977) to the University of Ulster
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Wartime in Paris: Sheffield scholar’s diary to be filmed
Madeleine Blaess’ journal gets screen treatment
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Stick to the master plan
The first step in tackling plagiarism in Japan is making students understand what it is, as it is a Western concept that does not fit well within Asian culture. To describe it, the Japanese word...
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MRC: 100 years of gratitude
Great medical record captures public heart and state wallet
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Grant winners - 20 June 2013
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Karen PolizziInstitution: Imperial College LondonValue: £108,160How does yeast Golgi organisation contribute to protein glycosylation?...
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THE Scholarly Web - 20 June 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Appointments - 20 June 2013
Aston UniversitySimon GreenThe new executive dean of Aston University’s School of Languages and Social Sciences, Simon Green, said that it was a “huge privilege” to take on the role, while noting the...
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Sir Patrick Nairne, 1921-2013
A distinguished civil servant who went on to become the second master of St Catherine’s College, Oxford and the second chancellor of the University of Essex has died
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Alma mater earnings data: ground zero sums?
Martin McQuillan warns of a possible Manhattan Project for the sector
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Sex and power: Aston women lead the way
Dame Julia King explains how her institution is tackling gender inequality
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America’s unthinking majority
US politics is not keen on the theoretical, Alan Ryan discovers
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Zero Marx for Gove’s time warp (again)
Michael Gove is stuck in a time warp (“Enemy of promise”, 13 June). Twenty-five years ago, the radical Right was publishing similar scare stories about Marxists in teacher education.Margaret Thatcher...
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Hold the anglophone
The French for “les derivatives vendus par les hedge funds” is “les produits dérivés vendus par les fonds spéculatifs” (“Ce n’est plus la guerre: a global academy vs summarising Proust”, Opinion, 13...