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  1. Odds and quads - 2 January 2014

    These pictures are from the archive of the lesbian photographer, writer and performance artist Tessa Boffin (1960-93), now held by the University for the Creative Arts Farnham

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  2. News in brief - 2 January 2014

    Big Data InstituteUCL pledges to retain open accessUniversity College London says its partnership with the huge publishing and information company Elsevier on a new Big Data Institute will not affect...

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  3. Grant winners - 2 January 2014

    Leverhulme TrustPhilip Leverhulme PrizesThese awards recognise early career researchers whose work has already had a significant international impact and whose future research career is exceptionally...

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  4. Stand-alone technology

    Buckminster Fuller may well have sought beautiful solutions, but that view is more in line with technology than science (“Both sides of the equation”, 12 December 2013).Working “solutions” such as...

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  5. Travesty in the UUK

    As Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, so eloquently put it on BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions? recently: if Universities UK had replaced the word “gender” with “race”, it would never have even...

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  6. Admission not impossible

    My recent article on conducting field research in Rwanda (“The price of admission”, 28 November) generated two critical responses in these pages – an article by Erin Jessee (“Subtle as foxes for prey...

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  7. Legal allies in student David v Goliath battles

    As a barrister, I occasionally represent clients who elicit little public sympathy. The “cab rank” rule requires barristers to accept a case even if they disapprove of the client or cause. Yet when I...

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  8. The year in higher education quotes 2013

    Christmas is over and winter’s grip will tighten in the grey weeks ahead. The only crumb of consolation offered by the New Year is the chance to take stock of the past 12 months and to learn some...

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  10. Decline in the number of animals used in research in the UK

    The European Commission released the latest data on the number of animals used in science last month. Across Europe, researchers used 11.5 million animals in 2011, down half a million compared with...

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  14. West Bank balance

    On 18 November, Brandeis University, a liberal arts college in Massachusetts that describes itself as the only non-sectarian Jewish-sponsored institution in the US, suspended its partnership with Al-...

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