THE Scholarly Web - 7 March 2013
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Please ensure that students drink responsibly
Don’t ‘turn blind eye’ to excessive boozing, heads tell universities
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7 March 2013
Creative accountability - Blurring the lines between artistic endeavour and academic research
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UCU ire at Kingston University plan to cut principal lecturer, reader titles
Union says changes will lead to demotion and pay cuts. Jack Grove reports
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Imperial College London’s new £1bn campus
West London development will provide facilities for research, translation and commercialisation, explains Sir Keith O’Nions, Imperial president
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Ducks in a row
Helen Bynum on the rewards, delight and egg-citement of dabbling in duck-keeping
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Opus versus output
Artistic practice can certainly be research - but the present model in UK universities is confused and lacks intellectual rigour, argues Nicholas Till
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Obituary - Trevor Elliott
One of the most influential geoscientists of his generation has died.Trevor Elliott was born in Lancashire on 26 August 1949 and educated at Derby School. After graduating in geology from the...
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Awards and promotions
University of TokyoCatriona ElderA University of Sydney academic who has been appointed visiting professor in ߣߣƵn studies at the University of Tokyo said it was evidence that her family’s...
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Kevin Fong - Word search
Baths, box sets, blueberry muffins, terror: Kevin Fong gives birth to a book
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News in brief
United StatesIt looks bad - we thinkA preliminary 2014 budget indicates that the governor of Louisiana may cut $200 million (£133 million) from state university funding. The higher education budget...
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Laurie Taylor
Back to the grindstone“We’ve nothing whatsoever to be ashamed of in Media and Cultural Studies.”That was the forthright response of departmental head Professor Gordon Lapping to the revelation that...
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