News in brief - 20 June 2013
AustraliaTesting times for TeqsaAustralia鈥檚 new higher education regulator faces a test of its powers after it emerged that two private institutions have challenged some of its decisions. Stott鈥檚...
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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鈥檚 diary to be filmed
Madeleine Blaess鈥 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: 拢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鈥檚 School of Languages and Social Sciences, Simon Green, said that it was a 鈥渉uge privilege鈥 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 unthinking majority
US politics is not keen on the theoretical, Alan Ryan discovers
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Zero Marx for Gove鈥檚 time warp (again)
Michael Gove is stuck in a time warp (鈥淓nemy of promise鈥, 13聽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 鈥渓es derivatives vendus par les hedge funds鈥 is 鈥渓es produits d茅riv茅s vendus par les fonds sp茅culatifs鈥 (鈥淐e n鈥檈st plus la guerre: a global academy vs summarising Proust鈥, Opinion, 13...
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Informed investment
鈥淕raduate earnings by institution? Let鈥檚 break it down for you鈥 (News, 6聽June) shines much-needed light on the student fee and value debate. In 2012, the UK government estimated that the total...