Campus round-up
For good growth, add soap and waterChildren under the age of five who have access to clean water and soap are half a centimetre taller than those who lack such basics, a study shows. The Cochrane...
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Campus round-up - 15 August 2013
Source: GettyFor good growth, add soap and waterChildren under the age of five who have access to clean water and soap are half a centimetre taller than those who lack such basics, a study shows. The...
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Research Intelligence - Collaboration is an essential procedure
Researchers, industry and NHS must deliver results, Academy of Medical Sciences' head tells Paul Jump
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Letters
Learn from Met record or get stuck on repeatHow well acquainted is Michael Shattock with London Metropolitan University? (“‘The best board I ever sat on’”, 30 May.) In drawing parallels between HBOS...
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Keep up the good work: Willetts
Wilson response sees limited role for Whitehall in industry/academy links. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Appointments
University of HuddersfieldJohn PlayleThe new dean of human and health sciences at the University of Huddersfield joked that you can break yourself into the role by playing "the new person for the...
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From selling crack to sociology
A failed dealer used his insider status to research drugs, violence and the American Dream
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How can universities support students to work harder?
A new generation of ‘dual-intensive’ universities can do the job, argues Edward Acton
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Appointments
University of LuxembourgLudwig NeysesA University of Manchester academic has been appointed vice-president for research at the University of Luxembourg. Ludwig Neyses, currently chair in medicine and...
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A house divided can't stand
Fawzi Ibrahim implores the UCU to work collectively to save itself from political turmoil and financial meltdown
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Letters
UK still suffers trips of the tonguesYour editorial “A timely look under the bonnet” (22 August) is right to draw attention to the issue of language degrees, but one of the figures was inaccurate. As...
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If those who pay the pipers call the tune, make the fact public
Universities must disclose scholars' financial conflicts of interest or the integrity of faculty opinion will be jeopardised, says Cary Nelson
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The Dracula Dilemma: Tourism, Identity and the State in Romania
How to establish a serious national tourist agenda when the most famous person associated with your country is not only someone you'd rather not be associated with but furthermore is fictional?...
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Raising the bars
Mobile phone ownership across the continent is rocketing, but can it expand higher education’s reach and quality? Chris Parr investigates
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Africa’s mobile phone e-learning transformation
Mobile phone ownership across the continent is rocketing, but can it expand higher education’s reach and quality?