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Making the ancient seem modern
Scholars strive to find explanations that clarify without stereotyping
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Grant winners
National Institute for Health ResearchHealth Technology Assessment ProgrammeAward winner: Nadine FosterInstitution: Keele UniversityValue: £1,179,586Stratified care for patients with sciatica and...
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News in brief - 25 September 2014
Gay-friendlinessSix institutions score top marksSix universities have scored full marks in an assessment of how gay friendly the UK’s higher education institutions are. Just two won the same accolade...
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Campus close-up: University of Liverpool
Research hub signals support for education initiatives to tackle city’s high cancer rates
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World in brief - 25 September 2014
CanadaEncouragement to study abroadMore Canadian students should be spending time studying in a foreign country, according to the Canadian Bureau for International Education. In a submission to the...
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Economists’ ivory tower isolation is not an option
In Germany as elsewhere, says Brian Bloch, the economic crisis has shown the limitations of neoclassical economics
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Egypt tailors reforms on UK model
A government delegation has been inspired by British funding bodies
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Views on pensions depend on principles
Re the proposed changes to the Universities Superannuation Scheme (“Reforms seen as ‘radical attack’ on pensions”, News, 18 September): in non-academic terms we are getting done over royally.This is...
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Chairs make a class act
In the news story “Plymouth defends ‘£150K spend on seven chairs’ ” (timeshighereducation.co.uk, 20 September), David Coslett, Plymouth University’s deputy vice-chancellor, argues that new...
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Pay for the skills you want
I have the greatest respect for my colleague Dame Ann Dowling, but I wonder if industry is being entirely straight with her when it claims to need double the current number of graduate engineers (“...
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He scores, in two fields
Your report in The Week in Higher Education (28 August) on the student turned professional footballer and the possibility of his prize-winning essay being published (“surely the first academic...
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The power of the eternals
Perhaps Greek universities should be wary of removing their “eternals” (News, 4 September). Was it not the Eternals who enabled the Greeks to defeat their Persian counterparts, the Immortals, at the...
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A haven for the hungover
I enjoyed Dale Salwak’s feature “Make a class a haven” (18 September). How innovative to create a space without the distractions of talking, groupwork and computers, and with bare walls and soft...
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