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Kevin Fong - Word search
Baths, box sets, blueberry muffins, terror: Kevin Fong gives birth to a book
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News in brief
United StatesIt looks bad - we thinkA preliminary 2014 budget indicates that the governor of Louisiana may cut $200 million (£133 million) from state university funding. The higher education budget...
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Laurie Taylor
Back to the grindstone“We’ve nothing whatsoever to be ashamed of in Media and Cultural Studies.”That was the forthright response of departmental head Professor Gordon Lapping to the revelation that...
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Letters
Immigration forecast: ridge of Right pressureIf academic colleagues are wondering why the sector’s extensive lobbying to get overseas students reclassified as non-immigrants is being so strongly...
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Research intelligence - Imperial’s westward momentum
Private and state cash feed research giant’s £1bn new campus in W12. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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Untangling creation myths
Artistic practice may count as research within the academy but it must be treated carefully if innovation is not to be stifled
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Planned access network’s familiar look
Comparisons drawn between access plans and scrapped outreach scheme. Jack Grove reports
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Moocs may cut out recruitment middle man
Free online courses may help universities to recruit more overseas students directly by helping to forge links with potential applicants, universities and science minister David Willetts has told an...
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Exit strategy: Wellcome head welcomes fresh challenges
Wellcome Trust head looks back at a highly eventful decade in charge. Paul Jump reports
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For-profit warning on numbers cap
‘Draconian’ numbers cap could snuff out nascent sector, coalition warned. John Morgan reports
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Please ensure that students drink responsibly
Universities are condoning excessive drinking among undergraduates and failing to offer them adequate pastoral care, according to a survey of UK headteachers.Anthony Seldon, master of independent...
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Shared services savings may be counted in millions
Waves of cost-cutting schemes expected once VAT exemption rules are clarified. Jack Grove writes
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Post-Higgs, meet the new god of small things
Some might regard taking over the running of one of the experiments that revealed the existence of the Higgs boson particle as akin to pushing the dustcart after the Lord Mayor’s show.But not Dave...