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World in brief - 27 November 2014
Source: AlamyUnited StatesForeign students help economy to the tune of £17.1 billionInternational students and their families supported 340,000 jobs and contributed $26.8 billion (£17.1 billion) to...
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The discounting trend at US universities
Few students in America are paying full price on fees, says Alan Ruby
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Grant winners - 27 November 2014
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council/Royal SocietyRoyal Society-EPSRC Dorothy Hodgkin FellowsThis scheme supports outstanding scientists and engineers at an early stage of their career...
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News in brief - 27 November 2014
Source: Gil C/Shutterstock.comOpen access mandateGates Foundation sets the paceThe Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced that all academic papers and datasets arising out of its funding...
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Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 27 November 2014
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Lost in the shirtstorm
As you report in The Week in Higher Education (20 November), European Space Agency scientist Matt Taylor hit the headlines not only for his role in landing a craft on a comet but also for wearing an...
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Cicero’s incalculable gifts
So Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones “would willingly obliterate every word of Cicero” for just one book of Ctesias’ lost work Persian Things (“Listen, and let us take you back”, Books, 13 November). Farewell,...
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Uniform alignments
Chris Rust’s article “Unknown qualities” (Features, 13 November) raises interesting questions about UK degree standards.Why shouldn’t universities be exposed to the same levels of scrutiny as schools...
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Science slighted
As a science academic, I found Sarah Churchwell’s essay rather depressing (“Humanities: why the study of human culture still matters”, 13 November).The article conflates the enjoyment of culture and...
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Mistakes and potatoes
It is difficult to credit events at Swansea University’s School of Management. The Family Piercy have been in post for more than 18 months, a period characterised by a significant number of staff...
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Members make their pension statement
Ninety members of the University and College Union sign a letter to Times Higher Education condemning the UCU’s compromise action on pensions (20 November), and THE gives this considerable prominence...
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The week in higher education - 27 November 2014
BBC bosses are considering introducing a quota of at least one woman per team on University Challenge amid fears that it is “probably the most unrepresentative show on TV”, The Times reported on 20...
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Just let the drivers get on with it
Universities already play a key role in powering regional growth. Another diktat demanding more on that score may be unhelpful
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Welsh terriers: shock analogy
Suggestions that there might be “parallels” between the language used to postgraduate student complainants by the Dean of Swansea University’s School of Management and the reproof issued by our Head...