Campus round-up - 22 August 2013
Source: AlamyFresh as the day they went downAntarctic shipwrecks such as Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance could still be lying fully preserved at the bottom of the ocean, researchers have suggested...
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News in brief - 22 August 2013
Eastern EuropeForeigners like their medicineInstitutions in Eastern Europe are taking in more and more medical students from abroad. According to data from the Unesco Institute for Statistics,...
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Grant winners
National Institute for Health ResearchHealth Technology Assessment ProgrammeAward winner: Gavin D. PerkinsInstitution: University of WarwickValue: £1,8,762Protocolised trial of invasive and non-...
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News in brief - 22 August 2013
ClearingAccept in haste, repent at leisure?Students who apply to university after they receive their A-level results are almost twice as likely to be dissatisfied with their course, a survey says....
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Odds and quads - 22 August 2013
In 1714, an Act of Parliament set a top prize of £20,000 (now worth about £1.5 million) for a method of determining a ship’s position east and west from a fixed meridian line
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Silence as a pedagogical tool
Using silence effectively in the university classroom has pedagogical benefits, asserts Helen Lees
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Elysium, directed by Neill Blomkamp
Will Brooker on a science fiction blockbuster that, despite the clichés, has much to say about inequality and oppression
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Lecturers take ratings data complaints to Information Commissioner’s Office
Academics claim breach of data protection rules on Rate Your Lecturer website
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Exeter to cut international business student numbers after quality concerns
Ability concerns at University of Exeter business school forces rethink on international intake
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Silencing a secular voice
On 5 August, a court in Turkey convicted Kemal Gürüz, one of the country’s most distinguished scholars, on charges relating to an attempted coup in 2007 and sentenced him to 13 years and 11 months in...
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S-Lab initiative spotlights laboratory cost savings
Smart thinking on efficiencies funnels cash to research
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Matthew Feldman, Shelley King, Gordon Thomas, Sharon Wheeler and Wendy Zeldin...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic, by Christopher Prendergast
Mary Bryden on a deliciously rich interrogation of the French novelist’s oeuvre
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The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes, by Steven Nadler
Erik-Jan Bos finds that the mystery surrounding a famous painting opens a new window on the French philosopher’s world and life
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The Milky Way: An Insider’s Guide, by William H. Waller
Simon Mitton finds much to admire in a grand tour of our home galaxy