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Campus round-up - 5 September 2013
Underground artThis subterranean art installation, housed in a Victorian ice well beneath the London Canal Museum, was inspired by particle physics. Commissioned by the Institute of Physics,...
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Odds and quads - 5 September 2013
The Royal College of Science was one of three institutions that merged in 1907 to form Imperial College London. In 1955, it set up its own Motor Club to maintain a fire engine known as Jezebel as a ...
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News in brief - 5 September 2013
Visa applicationsOverseas students not deterredVisa applications from overseas students seeking to study at UK universities are up 4 per cent, according to the latest migration figures from the...
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News in brief - 5 September 2013
AustraliaTop whack for top dogsSome Australian university heads are paid 10 times as much as senior lecturers, institutions’ annual accounts for 2012 have shown. The average remuneration package of...
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Grant winners - 5 September 2013
National Institute for Health ResearchHealth Services and Delivery Research programmeAward winner: Sarah ByfordInstitution: King’s College LondonValue: £675,578The cost and cost-effectiveness of...
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George Watson, 1927-2013
A maverick English don who often contributed to Times Higher Education has died
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Appointments - 5 September 2013
Royal College of ArtJordan Baseman“If you had told me when I was 22 and graduating from art school that I would spend almost my entire adult life working in art schools I wouldn’t have believed you...
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THE Scholarly Web - 5 September 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Satire is dead
A concern when reading Jamie Targett’s latest communication on performance management in The Poppletonian (29 August): I had previously thought there was a satirical element to this column. I now...
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Keynesian scale
It is erroneous of Kitty Stewart to declare that J. M. Keynes’ famous quote “In the long run we are all dead” had anything to do with the idea that economies left alone recover from recession on...
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Unintended consequences
There are three unspoken consequences of Michael Gove’s A-level reforms (“Remaking the grades”, 15 August).Parity of status between the qualifications and technical courses may exist in politicians’...
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Bang for your Bucks
Times Higher Education’s international and postgraduate student fees survey (8 August) lists the University of Buckingham as charging the most in the UK for domestic and European Union undergraduates...
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Does not compute
You recently reported Higher Education Statistics Agency figures on graduate unemployment by subject, with medicine and dentistry having the lowest rate and computer science the highest (“Try turning...
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Daft, not stupid, question
Allan Johnson struck a chord with his piece on question-and-answer sessions at academic conferences (“Interrogative mood music”, 29 August). However, I would like to point out that one type of...