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Call for institutions to measure social mobility impact via graduates鈥 careers
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1 May 2014
Worth the risks - Animal researchers end their silence on their work
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News in brief - 1 May 2014
Scottish independenceHepi/色盒直播 essay competitionWriters with strong opinions on what Scottish independence might mean for higher education are invited to enter the Higher Education Policy Institute/...
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World in brief - 1 May 2014
United StatesIndian applicants up by one-thirdApplications to US graduate schools from India have risen dramatically in the past year, according to a new report. The Council of Graduate Schools, in...
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Ernesto Laclau, 1935-2014
A leading Argentine political theorist and advocate of 鈥渞adical democracy鈥, long based at the University of Essex, has died
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Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
We speak to the former Children鈥檚 Laureate and next chancellor of the University of Roehampton
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色盒直播 Scholarly Web - 1 May 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Well versed
If you鈥檙e unsure where your head isfor jetting aroundIf you鈥檙e wasteful with millionsbut skimp over poundsIf discussion embarrasses you(it reveals your mistakes!)Urge pay restraint widelywhile you鈥檙e...
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Thinking not required
Hurrah for Rowan Williams (鈥淣o fooling about impact鈥, Opinion, 17 April). The one unifying factor of every degree should be critical analysis, training to think, bringing enlightenment to the masses...
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Academic Hunger Games
With hindsight, perhaps the legacy of the research excellence framework on all researchers has been distilled in the tribunal judgement 鈥渞esponsibility for allowing their own vanity and self-interest...
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No spying
One never wants to spoil a good story but it is important to correct some of the facts in 鈥淓xpos茅 brought Warwick success鈥 (News, 10聽April).It is not true that the university employed a detective to...
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Gender and jobs
Mary Curnock Cook is right to point out the issue of gender imbalance in certain subject areas (鈥淲omen in STEM 鈥榮ole focus鈥 of gender imbalance debate鈥, News, 24 April) where women make up the...
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Deterring plagiarism
Turnitin is a great tool to help identify plagiarism by students. In fact, examination of originality reports is my first action when marking student work in order to eliminate those few students who...
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Is it time to rethink GTA positions?
Graduate teaching assistantships should be scrapped, not only because of the wide discrepancies in pay and working conditions (鈥淟abour of love: huge variation in GTA pay鈥, News, 24 April) but also...
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Open labs may lead to open minds
A concordat aimed at ending secrecy in animal testing will allow for debate that should benefit researchers and subjects