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  1. Grant winners - 30 October 2014

    Arts and Humanities Research CouncilScience in Culture Innovation AwardsAward winner: Tony PrescottInstitution: University of SheffieldValue: £64,118Cyberselves in immersive technologiesAward winner...

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    #Research intelligence

  2. News in brief - 30 October 2014

    USS pensionsTobacco investments under attackThe Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) should reconsider its investments in companies that sell tobacco, arms and fossil fuels, a new campaign says....

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  3. Through the wardrobe

    I struggled with Sally Feldman’s article, “Post-dungaree decisions”, about academic dress (Opinion, 16 October). I know plenty of chic female academics. I wear dresses and am also a radical feminist...

    #Letters

  4. Regional concerns

    It is difficult to understand the basis of the suggestion in the city growth report by the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce that graduates do not work in the...

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  5. The efficiency agenda

    Last week’s cover story (“Mass observation”, Features, 23 October) on the monitoring of academics raised some interesting points about staff assessment and academic freedom.However, focusing on one...

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  6. History’s minority

    We write as a group of concerned black historians and teachers anxious to highlight during Black History Month the alarmingly low numbers of black history students at undergraduate and postgraduate...

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  7. Private ways to advance

    Alan Milburn is clearly right to highlight the role of higher education in social mobility, but frustratingly, the focus is still on the few, getting the “gifted” minority into traditional...

    #Letters

  8. Who is leading the call for QAA review?

    The Higher Education Funding Council for England’s announcement on 7 October of a “quality assessment” consultation came as quite a surprise.Hefce says this is to take place in conjunction with the...

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  10. Pile ’em high

    Source: Getty“It’s nothing more than a medium-sized temporary blip.”That was how Nathan Prest, our Head of Student Recruitment, responded to allegations that our university’s new “Super Greed” policy...

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    #Laurie
    #Laurie Taylor
    #Opinion

  11. The week in higher education - 30 October 2014

    British secret services spied on Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm for decades, newly released files reveal. MI5 and Special Branch officers tapped the phones and intercepted the letters of the...

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    #The week in HE

  12. Soundings of choppy waters

    The government unleashed private providers to change the sector, but has there been a tide of creative disruption?

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    #Opinion

  15. The rise of non-elite journals

    The proportion of top research papers published in elite journals has fallen over the past 18 years, according to research from Google

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