THE Scholarly Web - 20 June 2013
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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...
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Informed investment
“Graduate earnings by institution? Let’s break it down for you” (News, 6 June) shines much-needed light on the student fee and value debate. In 2012, the UK government estimated that the total...
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Holistic education
Should “study skills” be taught? Graham Gibbs has his reservations, arguing that the best way to “improve” students is to do so through a better understanding of the nature of knowledge within...
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Points: wrong direction
A friend’s daughter, who graduated with a first and is clearly a high-flyer, was recently rejected by a blue-chip company after passing all six stages of its taxing graduate-recruitment process. An...
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AHRC chief: don’t drive creatives to despair
Rick Rylance offers academy guidance for business collaborations
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Memory Palace: the forgotten future
A new exhibition at the V&A fuses words and art in an unforgettable dystopian vision, says Aaron Rosen
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Harriet Dunbar-Morris, Stephen Halliday, Nigel Rodenhurst, Bruce Scharlau and Sharon Wheeler...
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