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  2. Grant winners - 16 May 2013

    Action Medical ResearchResearch GrantsAward winner: Doris-Eva BamiouInstitution: University College LondonValue: ÂŁ19,140Auditory processing disorders: why do some children struggle to make sense of...

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  4. Hitch in (and out of) time

    Christopher Bigsby on the declining art of taking a hike

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  5. Pros and cons of the metrics system

    The main problem with the research excellence framework is the huge amount of time and money that it consumes, distracting academics from scholarly activities and diverting funds to employ squads of...

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  6. Right royal appointment

    It is regrettable that a publication written mainly for academics should choose to cover The Sunday Times’ version of the facts about the election of the Duke of York as a royal fellow of the Royal...

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  7. All bark, no bite?

    The recent Department for Business, Innovation and Skills’ draft guidance Alternative Providers: Specific Course Designation states on page 9: “The QAA safeguards academic standards and quality in UK...

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  8. Limited choice

    Steve West’s contention that students need wide-ranging information to make their choice of university and course would be welcome if he were not simultaneously undermining it (“Working class law...

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  9. Advance warning

    Pauline McGovern makes a good point about vivas (“Harsh interrogation”, Letters, 2 May). Their main purpose is to establish that candidates understand their work and can explain it in the context of...

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  10. Rearing window

    In his review of Peter Mandler’s Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War, Chris Knight characterises as “nonsense” Mead’s belief that the swaddling...

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