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Campus round-up - 17 October 2013

Source: Russell SachGreater transparencyA “scientific glassblower” at the University of Southampton is one of about 15 skilled workers still employed by UK universities to produce glassware in-house...

Grant winners - 17 October 2013

Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsHumanitiesAward winner: Andrew ChamberlainInstitution: University of ManchesterValue: £246,725An investigation of ancient animal mummies using diagnostic...

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 17 October 2013

REF and policymakers overlook state-funded research

Vital academic work still missed by impact criteria and civil servants, forum hears

ɫ��ֱ�� Scholarly Web - 17 October 2013

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

Joan Thirsk, 1922-2013

One of the leading social historians of her generation has died

What we should ask on student feedback forms

Felipe Fernández-Armesto on the inanity of questionnaires assessing teaching

What a bunch of amateurs

Andrew Morgan laments “the continuing scandal that students are asked to pay £3,000 a term to be taught by amateur staff lacking any significant training in the theory or practice of teaching,...

Handmaiden’s tale

Your review of Helen Small’s The Value of the Humanities summarises the five main arguments made in support of the discipline (“Calm voice lauds humanities’ part in public conversation”, News, 26...

Asking for it

It is hardly surprising that the pace of growth in anglophone taught master’s courses offered in continental Europe is picking up (“A warm Euro welcome - and in English, too”, News, 10 October).For...

Dawning diversification

We noted with interest your article on the Athena SWAN charter and its mounting influence on UK academia, including plans to extend the scheme beyond science, technology, engineering and mathematics...

Thorny fact-checking

It is surprising that Marianne Elliott thinks that criticism of the late Peter Hart’s research is “vilification” (“No word for what we’re doing”, Books, 3 October). Times Higher Education has twice...

Spirits of the market

Your piece on essay mills is a little harsh (“We can write it for you wholesale”, 10 October): after all, they simply satisfy a demand in an education market. In the same way, ghostwriters, often...

Paul Klee: Making Visible

Alex Danchev delights in Tate Modern’s finely chosen feast of delicacies from the table of Paul Klee

Graham Farmelo, Emma Griffin, Andrew Hadfield, Tim Hall and Jan Marsh...

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