Douglas Lowry, 1951-2013
A composer and conductor who played a major role in American musical education has died
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Campus round-up - 31 October 2013
Source: AlamyTackling a sport鈥檚 hidden lossesAmerican football players may struggle to plan and organise their lives in later life after suffering brain abnormalities caused by head injuries. Brain...
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Grant winners - 31 October 2013
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSocial sciencesAward winner: David Simon CowanInstitution: University of BristolValue: 拢71,686Shared ownership: crisis momentsAward winner: Carolyn...
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Odds and quads - 31 October 2013
These gorgeous fabric samples are taken from a scrapbook that was once used by students at Bradford Technical College and is now held in the Special Collections of the University of Bradford
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G-spot no longer blind
Steve Fuller urges us to judge the continued viability of proposals from the Robbins report in terms of the best exploitation of 鈥渉uman capital - or talent鈥 (鈥淚ntellectual fruit of neoliberal seedbed...
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Emperor's new Mooc
I find the renewed hype about online courses depressing: we鈥檝e been here before. In his 2003 book The Flickering Mind, US journalist Todd Oppenheimer considers such courses to be less effective than...
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Partners in pedagogy
I read with interest John Colley鈥檚 recent article 鈥淚t鈥檚 got to be good鈥 (Opinion, 10 October). While raising important issues, he misses the point on a number of levels.First, he falls into the...
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Graded inequality
There was significant media coverage of the poor results recorded for the UK鈥檚 16- to 25-year-olds under the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development鈥檚 Programme for the International...
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Unrewarding game of risk
John Gill asserts that in their research excellence framework preparations, 鈥済ame-players鈥 can 鈥渂ase the number of researchers submitted on the number of solid impact case studies they can detail -...
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News in brief - 31 October 2013
IsraelBranch of peaceA US university is planning to open a branch campus in the Arab capital of Israel in a bid to bring Arabs and Jews together and to expand its overseas presence. John Sharp,...
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The week in higher education - 31 October 2013
The London School of Economics and the BBC have locked horns once again after former English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson turned up unannounced at a lecture with a聽cameraman making a...
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News in brief - 31 October 2013
Wellcome TrustCash to unlock library鈥檚 richesThe Wellcome Trust has launched a 拢100,000 scheme to fund open access publication of research drawing on holdings in its library. Its extensive...
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English: why the discipline may not be 'too big to fail'
Robert Eaglestone and Simon K枚vesi ponder the problems that could sink the subject
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Princes Charles jokes about Guardian at TV scholarships launch
The Prince of Wales owned up to 鈥渕eddling鈥 as he announced the launch of 20 new bursaries for students from less affluent backgrounds on television courses
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GPA pilot takes off
Six Russell Group universities are among the 20 higher education institutions who will take part in a pilot of US-style degree classifications