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  1. Who is Stronzo Bestiale?

    A blogger gets to the bottom of tale concerning a physicist whose name means ‘total asshole’ in Italian

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  2. World in brief - 30 October 2014

    United StatesScrutiny over sexual assaults growsThere has been a 50 per cent rise in the number of government investigations into US higher education institutions’ handling of sexual assaults on...

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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...

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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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...

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  10. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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