THE podcast: 2 May 2013 issue review
Podcast Powered By PodbeanDownload the podcastThe startling levels of gender inequality in research-intensive universities, the involvement of UK universities in the academies movement and the Times...
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Students to dance in lectures as part of health scheme
Two-minute blasts from students鈥 own music collections to allow dancing in lectures every 20 minutes is one of the techniques being employed by a university to encourage less sedentary behaviour...
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Campus round-up - 2 May 2013
Source: ReutersHealth down the TubePeople working or travelling on underground railways for sustained periods of time could be at increased risk of health problems because of metals in the ultra-fine...
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News in brief - 2 May 2013
United StatesEverything has its priceThe governor of California wants to tie some state funding for its public universities to a host of reforms. Jerry Brown aims to attach the investment to...
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Odds and quads - 2 May 2013
These two iron locks, one (with key) for a door, the other probably from a chest or strongbox, form part of a collection that was donated to the Manchester School of Art in 1911 by the architect...
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Goldsmiths assays its future prospects
University of London college targets graduate employability and research cash
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Cable welcomes entrepreneurial 'upsurge'
Growth in university enterprise societies marks a change
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A little light reading on hellish journeys
Victorian 鈥榩enny dreadfuls鈥 offer priceless insights into social history
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In the know
Ferdinand von Prondzynski is right in pointing out that the notion of 鈥渒nowledge for knowledge鈥檚 sake鈥 is not a useful justification for scholarly activities or universities themselves (鈥淪pinach for...
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2 May 2013
The XX files - Global Gender Index finds inequality on a worldwide scale.
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Painful admission
All across the US, colleges and universities are sending out their letters of acceptance and rejection. There will be tears
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Why HE is expanding into schools
John Elmes investigates the growth in university-sponsored academies
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Grant winners - 2 May 2013
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Colin CrumpInstitution: University of CambridgeValue: 拢188,516Developing super-resolution microscopy for the analysis of virus...
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THE Scholarly Web - 2 May 2013
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