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  1. Odds and quads - 19 September 2013

    St John’s College, Cambridge was established by charter in 1511 through the generosity of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509)

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  2. Campus round-up - 19 September 2013

    Scientific resolutionThis image (main picture) is a 3D scan of a glass sculpture of a jellyfish created in the 19th century by father-and-son team Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka. The German glass...

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  3. Grant winners - 19 September 2013

    Royal SocietyLeverhulme Trust Senior Research FellowshipsThe scheme is designed for scientists who would benefit from a period of full-time research without teaching and administrative duties....

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  4. News in brief - 19 September 2013

    TaiwanWrong formula for libelA court has dismissed a libel case against an academic whose research suggested that emissions from an industrial conglomerate’s chemical plants had raised cancer rates...

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  5. David Barker, 1938-2013

    A researcher who revolutionised the study of fetal development and its long-term impact on health has died

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  6. Appointments - 19 September 2013

    University of WolverhamptonGary Sheffield“I’ve been interested in military history for almost as long as I can remember,” said Gary Sheffield, who has been appointed professor of war studies at the...

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  8. Open society

    John Kaag is not up to speed with meetings culture (“Short is sweet”, Opinion, 12 September). It is not rude to have your laptop or tablet open during a meeting: in the era of the paperless office,...

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  9. Plucky, blameless Belgians

    In his review of July 1914: Countdown to War by Sean McMeekin, A. W. Purdue says: “The question of which, if any, nation was responsible for the First World War remains open.” In 1919, someone said...

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  10. Two years? Yes we can

    In the article “In UK, two-year courses still too short a season” (News, 12 September), you mention a report by Ella Ritchie, former pro vice-chancellor for teaching and learning at Newcastle...

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  11. Actually existing solution

    Alessandra Lopez y Royo argues that “free market principles have changed and ruined the academy” (Opinion, 22 August), and states that she would “think long and hard” before advising others to carve...

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  12. Practical lessons

    I was disappointed with “Failure analysis” (From where I sit, 5 September). Failure anticipation and analysis in higher education teaching and learning, a part of what in engineering might be termed...

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  13. Light or dark, still blue

    Siana Bangura defends a “holistic” Oxbridge application process but offers no evidence to support her claims (Letters, 29 August). Peter Millican serves up a flawed thesis on the benefits of...

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  14. Philistine spirit of today’s political age

    When Joe Hockey, the Liberal Party opposition Treasury spokesman, ridiculed an Australian Research Council-funded project on the German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel (“The God of Hegel’s Post-Kantian...

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