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14 November 2013
Here, let me show you - Mentoring: one-to-one guidance in a hostile world
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Campus round-up - 14 November 2013
Source: Rex FeaturesTake noteA pop-up record shop has been launched to promote work by music students. The NXShop, in South London’s New Cross, sells CDs and vinyl records made by those on the...
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THE Scholarly Web - 14 November 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Arthur Danto, 1924-2013
One of the leading philosophers of his generation has died
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Grant winners - 14 November 2013
Royal SocietyUniversity Research FellowshipsAward winner: Sofia GripenbergInstitution: University of OxfordValue: ÂŁ476,630Plant-eating insects and the structure of tropical plant communitiesAward...
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News in brief - 14 November 2013
United StatesQuick to the cutA US university has had to cancel classes for the spring term because of budgetary problems. Two weeks ago, just days before student registration began, directors and...
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Odds and quads - 14 November 2013
One of the greatest British writers of the 18th century, Samuel Johnson (1709-84) studied at Pembroke College, Oxford, for just over a year before he ran out of money. He would later describe himself...
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News in brief - 14 November 2013
Scotland/Hong Kong partnershipResearch symbiosisMinisters from Scotland and Hong Kong have signed an agreement for researchers from the two countries’ universities to collaborate more closely....
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Headline hustler
I wonder if the 10cc fan on your production team (“Godly and cream”, Campus round-up; “They don’t like cricket, oh no, they love it”, News, 7 November) is the same person who ingeniously used Led...
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Rude mechanics
Much of the rudeness in “Nasty, brutish and short” (7 November) is really about status and class, and is prevalent throughout society. However, it is perhaps more glaring in the lecture and seminar...
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Hepi hits the buffer
Should the responsibility for regulation be separated from responsibility for funding, as the Higher Education Policy Institute suggests? (“Only a super-regulator can preserve truth, justice and the...
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Not damned, united
In their pessimistic analysis of the prospects for English, “What happens in the tempest?” (31 October), Robert Eaglestone and Simon Kövesi make some misleading statements about the organisations...
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Right judgment
The July 2013 court ruling that Newcastle City Council should offer two recent care leavers who sought asylum in the UK loans to allow them to access higher education has been portrayed by sections...
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