THE podcast: 11 July 2013 issue review
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10 truths a PhD supervisor will never tell you
There are some important dos and don’ts to bear in mind when choosing someone to oversee your doctoral thesis, advises Tara Brabazon
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BMI bias in graduate admissions
Overweight applicants disadvantaged in face-to-face interviews
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Soapbox Science event boosts gender awareness
Female researchers take to the streets to entertain the public with cutting-edge research
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Sector cools on QAA plans to use foreign reviewers
Consultation shows widespread resistance to regulator’s proposal
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Odds and quads - 11 July 2013
These Tudor-era playing cards were found in the Muniment Room at Christ’s College, Cambridge, during renovation works in the 1960s and now reside in the College Library
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Appointments - 11 July 2013
British Institute of International and Comparative LawJan van Zyl SmitAn academic expert on reforms to the judiciary in states undergoing constitutional change has been made a research fellow of the...
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Put a price on blue-skies research, scholar urges
David Cope defends merits of ‘monetising’ in impact-focused era
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DIY fine art degrees for cash-strapped artists
Lecturers aid students in ‘School of the Damned’
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Qatar under new management, but business as usual for branches
Western universities don’t expect new emir to shake up status quo
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Hidden roots manoeuvre
I was interested to see that Open University researchers are trying to map every tree in the UK (Campus round-up, June). The problem is, of course, that they won’t see the wood.Michael...
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Stoned to ease your bones
There is growing evidence that marijuana may be helpful in the treatment of chronic pain, so I thought for a moment that approaching old age was about to become a little more pleasant when I read of...
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Contact assessment
For two reasons, John Linfoot’s letter on “costing” student contact time made me smile (“Contact lenses”, Letters, 4 July). On the one hand, his figures are awry: the figure of 300 notional “contact...
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Applied mythology
Even as a mere master’s student at St Anne’s College, Oxford, I was astounded by the antiquated and conflicting claims made by Anthony Rodriguez (Letters, June).First he refers to the “bizarre ordeal...
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Pride and past prejudice
Wes Streeting is right that our universities must be places of empowerment and support for all students (“Leaders show how to build gay-friendly campus”, News, June). An interesting area is how they...