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  1. News in brief - 3 July 2014

    Investment in academic teachingGraduate quality at stakeThe future quality of graduates is under threat from underinvestment in teaching, according to a study. The report, Improving the Status and...

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  2. Grant winners - 3 July 2014

    Engineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilAward winner: Davey JonesInstitution: Bangor UniversityValue: £61,710The environmental IoT: understanding and managing the natural environment...

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  4. He’s got (Russian) rhythm

    Lara Cook in her review of William Zimmerman’s Ruling Russia: Authoritarianism from the Revolution to Putin (Books, 26 June) is amused by his suggestion that Stalin’s loyal apparatchik Vyacheslav...

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    The article on plagiarism (“Spain’s battle for originality is like herding (copy)cats”, News, 26 June) is a tad complacent when discussing this problem in the UK.I have heard postgraduates discussing...

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  6. Tub stumper

    I was very interested to read your article on academic exile (“Home away from home”, Features, 26 June), not least because this is an experience I am familiar with, having held academic positions in...

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  7. I’m sorry I haven’t a clue

    Students, not just those studying A levels, do indeed forget a large proportion of what they have been taught (“New students ‘have forgotten bulk of A-level knowledge’ ”, 25 June).It happens at all...

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  8. Obstacles to ethnography

    I enjoyed Laurie Taylor’s piece on immersive research (“Get stuck in”, Features, 19 June), and – as a part-time criminologist – share some of his nostalgia for the heyday and published classics of...

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  9. A clear signal about funding education

    Your report on how government policy may be informed by an unsupportable human capital theory of educational economics (“Improvement by degree or innate talent?”, News, 26 June) made sobering reading...

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  10. Silver linings workbook

    Our ever-cheery Head of Public Relations, Gail Topping, has expressed concern about the “veritable flood” of pessimistic metaphors employed by Michael Thorne, the vice-chancellor of Anglia Ruskin...

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  11. The week in higher education - 3 July 2014

    “Wonga tactics” does not sound like something the Student Loans Company would want to be associated with. But that is how one campaigner – quoted in the Daily Mail – described methods used by the...

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  12. Visa issues at heart of problem

    Universities must take responsibility for oversight of international students – an arm’s-length approach is no protection

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