THE Scholarly Web - 31 October 2013
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Douglas Lowry, 1951-2013
A composer and conductor who played a major role in American musical education has died
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Campus round-up - 31 October 2013
Source: AlamyTackling a sport’s hidden lossesAmerican football players may struggle to plan and organise their lives in later life after suffering brain abnormalities caused by head injuries. Brain...
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Grant winners - 31 October 2013
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSocial sciencesAward winner: David Simon CowanInstitution: University of BristolValue: £71,686Shared ownership: crisis momentsAward winner: Carolyn...
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Odds and quads - 31 October 2013
These gorgeous fabric samples are taken from a scrapbook that was once used by students at Bradford Technical College and is now held in the Special Collections of the University of Bradford
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G-spot no longer blind
Steve Fuller urges us to judge the continued viability of proposals from the Robbins report in terms of the best exploitation of “human capital - or talent†(“Intellectual fruit of neoliberal seedbed...
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Emperor's new Mooc
I find the renewed hype about online courses depressing: we’ve been here before. In his 2003 book The Flickering Mind, US journalist Todd Oppenheimer considers such courses to be less effective than...
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Partners in pedagogy
I read with interest John Colley’s recent article “It’s got to be good†(Opinion, 10 October). While raising important issues, he misses the point on a number of levels.First, he falls into the...
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Graded inequality
There was significant media coverage of the poor results recorded for the UK’s 16- to 25-year-olds under the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Programme for the International...
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Unrewarding game of risk
John Gill asserts that in their research excellence framework preparations, “game-players†can “base the number of researchers submitted on the number of solid impact case studies they can detail -...
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News in brief - 31 October 2013
IsraelBranch of peaceA US university is planning to open a branch campus in the Arab capital of Israel in a bid to bring Arabs and Jews together and to expand its overseas presence. John Sharp,...
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The week in higher education - 31 October 2013
The London School of Economics and the BBC have locked horns once again after former English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson turned up unannounced at a lecture with a cameraman making a...
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News in brief - 31 October 2013
Wellcome TrustCash to unlock library’s richesThe Wellcome Trust has launched a £100,000 scheme to fund open access publication of research drawing on holdings in its library. Its extensive...
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English: why the discipline may not be 'too big to fail'
Robert Eaglestone and Simon Kövesi ponder the problems that could sink the subject
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Princes Charles jokes about Guardian at TV scholarships launch
The Prince of Wales owned up to “meddling†as he announced the launch of 20 new bursaries for students from less affluent backgrounds on television courses