Campus round-up - 27 June 2013
Source: GettyOne, two, treeā¦A project to map every tree in the UK has been launched and members of the public are being asked to help. Treezilla, an Open University initiative, aims to create a...
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Odds and quads - 27 June 2013
The desk and spectacles pictured belonged to Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), the German polymath whose travels in Latin America led to the first serious scientific account of the continent
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Lord Williams āwouldnāt mindā if term āeliteā were dropped
The new chancellor of the University of South Wales tells David Matthews that the word deters poor pupils
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The pioneering foreign students who rebuilt Japan
UCL celebrates 150th anniversary of arrival of noblemen who modernised their country
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Watch the watch lists says UK scholar as US ban lifted
After 12 months barred from travel to US, Nasir Warfa can reopen his diary
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Big, bold and highly accessible
What do Arizona State University, the University of California, Riverside and the University of Central Florida have in common? Well, for a start they are all large ā Arizona State alone has more...
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McGillās global aims undented by local difficulties
Heather Munroe-Blum outlines her institutionās ācomplex missionā
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Appointments - 27 June 2013
University for the Creative ArtsWill AlsopThe man who designed the HĆ“tel du DĆ©partement des Bouches-du-RhĆ“ne (āLe Grand Bleuā) in Marseilles and the Stirling Prize-winning Peckham Library in South...
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Nick Dusic, 1978-2013
A former director of the UKās Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE) has died aged 34
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A breath of āfreshā air
ChristopherĀ Bigsby loved Aberystwyth, despite the respiratory hazards
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Change holes, not pegs to widen access
I do hope that your editorial is wrong and that we will not have to endure another decade of the argument about getting more state school pupils into so-called ātopā universities, as IĀ am fed up with...
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Healthy percentage
You recently cited figures showing that about one in 10 of Bath Spa Universityās professors is female (āGender gap still yawns among professoriateā, News, 13 June). It is of the nature of these...
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Support, not statute
As a full-time academic who is a wheelchair user living with multiple sclerosis, discrimination is a fact of life. Unlike my colleagues IĀ do not have a choice over how I get to work: public transport...
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Peacetime propaganda
On BBC Radio 4ās Today programme recently, Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker claimed that the world is retreating from violence and cruelty. According to the good professor, it seems we...
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Free and easy to find
I can confirm for Richard Hoyle that the journal Theatre Notebook is run on such āold-fashioned lines that the editors give their time for nothingā, or at least nothing pecuniary (āPipe-dream...