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  1. Campus round-up - 4 April 2013

    Source: Russell SachWearing wellResearch by a university’s neuroscientists has inspired catwalk fashion for a unique scheme. The Changing Minds project - involving neuroscientists at the University...

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  2. News in brief - 4 April 2013

    Canada‘Average’ cost of cutsThe board of governors at a Canadian university has warned the premier of its province that the major cuts announced in the provincial budget will “set [it] back by many...

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  4. Jagged little pills

    Recent research in Germany reveals that one in five students “takes something” to improve academic performance. The substances can range from fairly innocuous caffeine tablets to Ritalin,...

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  5. Grant winners - 4 April 2013

    Wellcome TrustInvestigators in Medical HumanitiesThese awards range from approximately £500,000 to just over £1 million for up to five yearsAward winners: Mark Thomas and Ian BarnesInstitutions:...

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  7. Ian Noble, 1960-2013

    A lecturer who inspired his students “to change the world of design” has died.

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  8. Appointments - 4 April 2013

    University of LincolnHugh ByrdHugh Byrd, who has just joined the University of Lincoln as professor of architecture, joked that he must be “crazy” to swap New Zealand for the East Midlands. “I have a...

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  9. Scramble for Africa

    The continent’s burgeoning economies could prove a major source of future student recruitment, says Marguerite Dennis

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  10. Parallel parking

    In an alternative universe, Christopher Bigsby is coining it in Vegas

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  11. Irish teacher failed to foresee his fate

    I was amused to read recent Nobel prizewinner Sir John Gurdon’s account of his “crippling school report”, which included the statement: “I believe he has ideas about becoming a Scientist; on his...

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  12. Scholars, not experts

    It is academics who will have ultimate responsibility for ensuring that students get a “higher” - not merely a “further” or a “secondary” - education in the new-style English higher education sector...

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  13. Just cause, unjust method

    One looks to the humanities and the social sciences for rational analysis of human affairs. How astonishing, then, that a dean of arts and social sciences cannot distinguish between the justice of a...

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  14. Harm's way

    My, that was a smug little piece by Felipe Fernández-Armesto (“Dens of inequity”, Opinion, 21 March). Apparently in his youth there was “no shame and no attested harm in a priest pinching a choirboy’...

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  15. Chilled to the marrow

    Lisa Downing’s mantelpiece is truly terrifying (“‘Monsters, never mirrors’”, Culture, 21 March). Perhaps she has a bone to pick with her interior designer.Name and address supplied

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