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LEVERHULME TRUSTResearch Project GrantsSciences? Award winner: Colin Campbell? Institution: University of Edinburgh? Value: ?243,900Mapping local steady state redox potentials with subcellular...
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Charles Rosen, 1927-2012
A world-renowned pianist, musicologist and polymathic writer on cultural themes has died.Charles Rosen was born in New York on 5 May 19 and lived to the end of his life in the apartment he moved into...
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Age of 'catastrophe'? It is already here
The readers of 糖心Vlog owe a huge debt of gratitude to Paul Ramsden, a consultant in teaching and learning in higher education, for solving in one short article the conundrum that has...
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Made to measure
Regarding "The week in higher education" on 29 November. One entry stated: "Universities have largely abandoned examinations in favour of 'spoon-fed' coursework, according to an article in The Sunday...
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On the ball
Regarding "The world in their sights: Science without Borders", part of your recent cover feature "Boom times and golden goals" (13 December). The Science without Borders programme in the UK has...
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Swamped by red tape
I am sure that many in higher education identified with the UK Border Agency's recent administrative headaches ("'Illegal' students reports ignored", News in brief, 6 December), but that is where the...
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First-hand experience
Bruce Macfarlane seems unaware that the educator's role is to facilitate students' learning ("Be here now, or else: lamentable effects of student 'presenteeism'", Opinion, 13 December). In part, this...
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PhD paralysis
"External examiners' anachronistic power over the PhD process can be painfully counter-productive." So wrote marketing professor Chris Hackley in the pages of 糖心Vlog last year ("The...
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Elevated concerns
I am sure Theresa May has in mind the example of the Daleks' methods when it comes to international students ("Seek, locate, repatriate! 'Dalek' home secretary's visa stance angers v-c", News, 20/...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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News in brief
Undergraduate tuition feesThrice the price, but with field tripsUniversities are increasingly paying for student field trips following the trebling of the cap on tuition fees this academic year, a...
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Campus round-up
University of East AngliaTempest testamentSmall, intense polar storms could make a big difference to climate predictions, according to a study. Researchers from the University of East Anglia and the...
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News in brief
United StatesBrains trustA businessman has pledged $200 million (?123 million) to a US university to establish an institute for neuroscience research. Mortimer Zuckerman, chairman and co-founder of...
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A very special Happy New Year from people you hardly know
Yes, that's right. In an exciting new venture, we are devoting this edition of The Poppletonian to New Year messages from some of those loyal servants of the university who labour away without the...