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  2. Grant winners - 6 November 2014

    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilAward winner: Joanne WebsterInstitution: Royal Veterinary CollegeValue: £763,444Epidemiology and evolution of zoonotic schistosomiasis in a...

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  3. 6 November 2014

    Lifelong learning on life support? - What we stand to lose as the number of mature students declines

  5. World in brief - 6 November 2014

    Source: AlamyUnited StatesObama supports affirmative actionUS President Barack Obama has expressed support for affirmative action. He told The New Yorker that if certain universities “do it in a...

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  6. News in brief - 6 November 2014

    Scottish pensionsControl ‘should be fully devolved’Scotland’s largest teaching union has suggested that control over a lecturers’ pension scheme could be devolved to Holyrood. The Educational...

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  7. The week in higher education - 6 November 2014

    As Times Higher Education went to press, a marking boycott due to start on 6 November by members of the Universities Superannuation Scheme still looked likely to go ahead. It had been hoped that...

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  8. Searching for solid ground

    Aftershocks following the austerity reforms of 2010 are still being felt, with mature students particularly hard hit

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  9. House of spirits

    The University of Cambridge’s Combination Rooms do seem to be fertile grounds for ghost-hunters (“Schools that have ghouls”, Features, 30 October).The psychologist Sir Frederic Bartlett reported that...

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  10. Giving is getting research

    May we politely point out to Charles Keidan (“Good for the money”, Features, 23 October) that research on philanthropy has been well established in British historical scholarship for many years.In...

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  11. Grade grudges

    In my last couple of years working at The Open University, I was conscious of a rise in expressions of disappointment from students about what they considered to be a low grade in an assignment (“...

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  12. Audit culture costs

    In response to the feature on the monitoring of academics (“Mass observation”, 23 October), the Association of Research Managers and Administrators was pleased to see that Frances Buck, co-founder of...

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  13. Madness in the method

    At a recent meeting with the National College for Teaching and Leadership, we sought to understand the methodology that has seen the agency deliver swingeing cuts in allocated teacher training...

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  14. Pharmacy’s bitter pill

    Greg Clark, the universities minister, has announced that there will be no attempt to manage entry into undergraduate pharmacy programmes in England (“Warning: NHS to take as required”, News in brief...

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