Familiar manoeuvre
The picture from Kind Hearts and Coronets was perhaps even more appropriate than R.E. Rawles realised ("Tragedy and farce", Letters, 3 May).The incident was based on the death in 1893 of Admiral Sir...
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Second-hand Shavian wit
"All professions are conspiracies against the laity" ("Amateur ethos", Letters, 10 May) is an idea coined by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations and later used by G.B. Shaw.J.L. Hutton, Department of...
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Evan Wright, 1924-2012
A registrar who served the University of Bristol in various roles for almost 40 years - including seeing the institution through a period of student unrest - has died at the age of 87.Evan Wright was...
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THE Scholarly Web
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Campus round-up
Queen Mary, University of LondonCondition of the heartAll babies should be screened for heart defects at birth, an academic has said. A simple non-invasive test called pulse oximetry could detect...
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17 May 2012
Time and space - Periods of reflection: the essence of learning
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Dismissal threat for metrics letter
Biologist risks ‘gross misconduct’ over comments on Queen Mary restructuring. John Morgan writes
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Salford plan to axe Italian gets tongue-lashing
Students and academics have condemned the University of Salford’s plans to shut down its Italian department, warning of damage to British graduate skills in a globalised economy.
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Abertay appoints new principal
The University of Abertay Dundee has appointed a new vice-chancellor and principal almost a year after the previous head of the institution left amid a row over his retirement.
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Campus Review: Redundancies reduced at Sydney
By Jennifer Bennett for Campus Review
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Campaign launched to challenge EPSRC 'diktats'
The head of a new protest group campaigning for reform of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has called for its chief executive, David Delpy, to take action or step down
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Thinktank attacks 'perverse incentive' on overseas students
Including students in net migration statistics creates a “perverse incentive” for the government to drive down foreign student numbers even though this does relatively little to cut long-term...
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Inside Higher Ed: Playing Politics With Poli Sci
By Doug Lederman for Inside Higher Ed
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Side effects? Nobody said anything about side effects…
Researchers into complementary and alternative medicine are disregarding “basic rules of publication ethics” by routinely failing to report the potentially serious side effects of treatments, an...
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It’s good to talk: poll points to wise counsel
Almost 60 per cent of graduates who received counselling at university say it played a vital role in supporting their academic work, a poll has found.