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  1. Andrew Thomson, 1936-2014

    One of the leading figures in post-war British management education has died

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  2. Q&A with Stephen Sparks

    We speak to a geologist whose work on volcanic eruptions has earned him the equivalent of a Nobel prize for the earth sciences

    #HE and Me
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  3. Grant winners - 12 February 2015

    National Institute for Health ResearchHealth Services and Delivery Research ProgrammeAward winner: Colin PowellInstitution: Cardiff UniversityValue: £1,984,669PUMA: Paediatric early warning system (...

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    #Research intelligence

  4. World in brief - 12 February 2015

    USIt’s a lot easier for the richA study of 45 years’ worth of US data suggests that rising tuition costs and drops in federal government aid have made it harder for the country’s students from low-...

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  5. News in brief - 12 February 2015

    UK general election 2015More Oxbridge ties in the House?The next Parliament will likely include a disproportionately high number of MPs who graduated from Oxbridge, research suggests. A study by the...

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  6. Rising above the mob

    When respected scholars enter a public debate, one would hope that their arguments uphold the same principles that underpin their research, namely accuracy and objectivity. Unfortunately, the nine...

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  7. Collaborative challenges

    In suggesting that academe and industry need to work more closely together, Mark Samuels is revisiting one of the central aims of LINK – launched by the government in 1988 and running well into the...

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  8. Plenty of buck but no bang

    Carl Lygo’s argument that a university course is poor value for money is strengthened when costs in other educational sectors are compared (“Costly lessons”, Opinion, 5 February). For example, a full...

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  9. Lodging a complaint

    David Lodge’s novels deal with the relations between academia and the outside world (“Laughing from the inside”, Features, 29 January). They are highly realistic in terms of detail but questionable...

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  10. Language is not the issue

    As someone whose job it is to teach English for academic purposes, and who works with international students at higher education level, I read with interest the article “Scholars highlight inadequate...

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  11. Lessons from Ebola crisis

    During the Ebola outbreak in 2014, Peter Piot made a cogent comment on the role of academics in response to a global crisis (“There is a ‘moral responsibility’ to go out and stop Ebola in Africa”,...

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  12. Like it’s going out of fashion

    Institutions splashed the cash to stay competitive, resulting in a REF price tag that may be far higher than the official estimate

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  13. You can never go back

    Reading the results of the Best University Workplace Survey 2015 (“Just the job?”, Features, 5 February) reminded me of when I worked in a new university in England. We were expected to undertake...

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