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  1. Campus round-up - 15 August 2013

    Source: GettyFor good growth, add soap and waterChildren under the age of five who have access to clean water and soap are half a centimetre taller than those who lack such basics, a study shows. The...

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  5. Metropolitan follies

    How can a university ā€œoutgrowā€ a name such as ā€œMetropolitanā€ (Campus round-up, 8Ā August) and how does ā€œBeckettā€ encompass anything wider? Do the leaders of Leeds Metropolitan University not have...

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  6. Buy now, regret later

    Cary Cooperā€™s review of The Triumph of Emptiness: Consumption, Higher Education, and Work Organization mentions the ā€œconsumption paradoxā€, the notion that as we become more affluent, we become less...

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  7. Professional identities

    Fred Inglisā€™ rage against marketing and the way corporate identities are reported to be created for universities (ā€œIncinerated by the branding ironā€, 18Ā July) may be shared by many academics and...

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  8. System-wide thinking

    Jon Turneyā€™s review of Toby Tyrrellā€™s OnĀ Gaia: AĀ Critical Investigation of the Relationship between Life and Earth (Books, 8Ā August) refers to Tyrrellā€™s proposal that the Gaia hypothesis is not a...

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  9. Silence and selfish genes

    While it may be true that ā€œsustained practices of silence are profoundly transformativeā€¦of oneā€™s spiritual and ethical perspectiveā€ (ā€œGiving but not yieldingā€, Features, 8Ā August), apparently they do...

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  10. Pre-emptive sanctions

    As part of its sanctions against Iran, the US government recently issued a regulation that in effect prohibits any US citizen from managing or processing a journal article on which at least one...

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  11. Title contentions

    I wonder whether it is strictly correct for BPP to claim that it is now a university (ā€œAnd BPP makes two: coalition confers university title on second for-profitā€, News, 8 August). The decision to...

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