World in brief - 22 January 2015
United StatesSilicon Valley plugs into ed techEducation technology businesses received investment totalling $1.87 billion (£1.2 billion) from venture capital firms last year, up 55 per cent on 2013....
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Carl Degler, 1921-2014
A Pulitzer prizewinning American historian who made major contributions to the study of women, African Americans and the poor has died
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Comets, not cold figures of finance, will ignite debate on Europe
In the debate over EU membership universities need to remind us of the ideal value of transnational knowledge, says Anna Notaro
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News in brief - 22 January 2015
REF 2014Data go digitalThe 1,911 submissions made to the 2014 research excellence framework have been published on the REF website. The submissions, from 154 universities, include 191,150 research...
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Traumatic evidence scars American football and its fans
Is the tide about to turn on the college sport?, ask Daniel Goldberg and Robert Lee Maril
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The week in higher education - 22 January 2015
The Sunday Times quoted Liam Byrne, Labour’s shadow universities, science and skills minister, as saying that “the right long-term shift is to a graduate tax” on 18 January. But the newspaper said...
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UK can’t afford to fall behind
Countries worldwide are investing to get ahead in the global game of research. Not doing so will cost the UK dear
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Nuts in May?
Source: Getty‘Neutralising the threat’“I haven’t yet heard from Theresa May, but I’m confident that she will regard my proposal as a positive contribution.”That was how Geraldine Transept, our Head...
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Grant winners - 22 January 2015
German Academic Exchange ServiceProject Funding: Promoting German Studies in the UKAward winners: Erica Carter, Chris Homewood, Annie Ring, Claudia Sandberg and Alexandra PontzenInstitutions: King’s...
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Definition of the mission
In Bahram Bekhradnia’s argument for making higher education less dependent on the market and instead providing more financial support through taxpayers (“Step back to look ahead”, Opinion, 15 January...
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The USS: fact and fiction
We write as representatives of the Left on the Higher Education Committee and other University and College Union activists who are utterly opposed to any retreat from defending members’ pensions. We...
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REF analysis: looking beyond boundaries
We would like to provide amendments to Adam Crawford’s analysis of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Impact Acceleration Account awards and research excellence framework outcomes (“REF...
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Correction to Hesa figures
I represent the department of anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, and I write to correct the published scores for my department in your subject rankings of research intensity (“The race is...
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To know the difference
John Shand’s review of my book Global Philosophy: What Philosophy Ought to Be (Books, 8 January) grotesquely misrepresents what the book is about.He says I hold that “the theoretical problems of...
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