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  1. Campus round-up - 21 March 2013

    Answers on a postcardWork by photographer David Bailey, animator Nick Park, film-maker Mike Leigh and fashion designer Sir Paul Smith are among 2,700 pieces of art featuring alongside students’...

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  3. Odds and quads - 21 March 2013

    The People’s Palace on London’s Mile End Road - described by The Times as a “happy experiment in practical Socialism” - was designed to educate and entertain the people of the East End.The original...

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  4. From Where I Sit - Comfort reading

    Theft is rare in Japan. When you go to Starbucks you are asked at the counter: “Do you have your seat?” At busy times, you are supposed to find a seat first and leave your bag and coat on it,...

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  6. Appointments - 21 March 2013

    Macquarie UniversitySakkie PretoriusSakkie Pretorius, who has been named deputy vice-chancellor for research at Macquarie University, said it was an honour to “step into the boots” of his predecessor...

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  7. Dawn Clark Netsch, 1926-2013

    A law professor notable for breaking through glass ceilings has died.Dawn Clark Netsch was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on 16 September 1926, and took a first degree at Northwestern University before...

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  8. Win-win when sport and scholarship mix

    I listened with interest to last week’s Times Higher Education podcast on the subject of universities providing more opportunities to talented sportspeople. As I am the recently appointed director of...

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  9. No room on this cushion

    I am writing in response to your recent article suggesting that universities could suffer in the next spending round (“Hungry Treasury eyes universities ‘awash with cash’”, News, 7 March).As at 31...

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  10. Infinite regression

    Yes, Fred Inglis’ poignant lament, rehearsing the lost moral and social solidarities of yesteryear, needed to be said (“The retention of tradition”, 14 March). Anyone who lived through those years -...

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  11. Soft-touch regulation

    Your news article, “UK union fans flames as Phoenix feels heat of probation threat” (14 March), reports the difficulties that Apollo Group, owner of BPP University College, is experiencing with US...

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  12. Highly political economy

    Prime Minister David Cameron’s robust defence of the inclusion of international students in the Office for National Statistics’ net migration data is highly indicative of the government’s need to...

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  13. Terms of achievement

    The 30 per cent advantage in terms of chances of entry to Oxbridge that an October birthdate confers over and above a July one is more to do with the timing of the school year than whether you are a...

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  14. Motivational motive

    If Graham Gibbs is right that class contact hours are less important than independent study hours (“Watched clocks and scholarly toil”, Teaching intelligence, 14 March), then higher education...

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  15. Driven potty

    I have just searched the Google Play Store for a THE app and the top suggestion was Potty Time (which includes eight new ways to celebrate your child’s potty training successes).I’m still teasing out...

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