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  1. 16 January 2014

    Thought leaders - The subjects students have favoured and forsaken over 15 years

  3. Boris Magasanik, 1919-2013

    A pioneer in the field of bacterial gene regulation who forged the Massachusetts Institute of Technology into a leader in biological research has died

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  4. Grant winners - 16 January 2014

    Royal SocietyUniversity Research FellowshipsAward winner: Constantinos PapageorgakisInstitution: Queen Mary University of LondonValue: £440,397Using Yang-Mills theory to understand objects with five...

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  5. World in brief - 16 January 2014

    United StatesCourt stymies NYU expansionA leading US university has seen half of its building expansion plans unexpectedly blocked in court. A state judge announced last week that New York University...

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  6. News in brief - 16 January 2014

    Doctoral training centresIt pays to recycleAt least 19 additional centres for doctoral training in engineering and science were announced by universities and science minister David Willetts on 9...

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  8. Material limits

    In her review of Robert Bartlett’s Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?, a study of the Christian cult of saints from the martyrs to the Reformation (Books, 19/26 December), Helen Fulton helpfully...

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  9. Russian research risks

    Sheila Fitzpatrick has written an enthralling and lightly humorous account, A Spy in the Archives: A Memoir of Cold War Russia, of the trials and tribulations of researching in the Soviet archives...

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  10. We have students’ backs

    In reference to Daniel Sokol’s letter “Legal allies in student David v Goliath battles†(2 January): in my experience, student advisers almost always assist in “the drafting of the critical ‘appeal...

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  11. Immigrant songs

    In relating how scholars from outside the European Union struggle with the UK’s visa regime, the feature “Life on the edge†(2 January) focuses on harsh rejections, administrative errors and...

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  12. Inadequacy and anger

    I thoroughly agree with the basic tenets of the feature “I shouldn’t really be here†(9 January). A group of us at the European Association for Institutional Research recently identified that we all...

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  13. Points to consider in widening participation

    The article “Poorer students present ‘financial risk’ †(9 January) provides a thought-provoking insight into the link between retention and low socio-economic status. It focuses on higher education...

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  14. Mind your own FoI business!

    Shocking new statistics reveal that our university leads the field in the number of times it has refused to answer Freedom of Information requests

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  15. Let’s break down the numbers

    Studying how subjects have waxed and waned in popularity reveals some striking changes and some difficult questions

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