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16 août 2014

University tuition fee rise has not deterred poorer students from applying
The Guardian homeBy . But study finds pupils from wealthy backgrounds still far more likely to go to university. The raising of tuition fees to £9,000 has not put off students from disadvantaged backgrounds from applying to university – although the gap in applications between those from wealthy and poor backgrounds remains wide, according to new analysis. Read more...
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16 août 2014

Maryam Mirzakhani: 'The more I spent time on maths, the more excited I got'
The Guardian homeThe first woman to win the prestigious Fields Medal prize discusses her life as a mathematician.
Maryam Mirzakhani has become the first woman to win the Fields Medal, the most prestigious prize in mathematics. Mirzakhani, 37, is of Iranian descent and completed her PhD at Harvard in 2004. Her thesis showed how to compute the Weil-Petersson volumes of moduli spaces of bordered Riemann surfaces. Her research interests include Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry. She is currently professor of mathematics at Stanford University, and predominantly works on geometric structures on surfaces and their deformations.
What are some of your earliest memories of mathematics?
As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could find. I never thought I would pursue mathematics until my last year in high school. I grew up in a family with three siblings. My parents were always very supportive and encouraging. It was important for them that we have meaningful and satisfying professions, but they didn't care as much about success and achievement. Read more...
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16 août 2014

Universities plug gap as government fails to support poorer students
The Guardian homeBy Bashir Makhoul. Universities need to work together and increase outreach work to help more disadvantaged students enter higher education. The numbers of disadvantaged young people in full-time higher education have risen in the past two years, yet today's report by the Independent Commission on Fees makes it abundantly clear that there are few causes for celebration. Read more...
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16 août 2014

A woman finally wins the Fields Medal after 50 years. Why did it take so long?
The Guardian homeBy . Almost half of maths undergraduates are now women, but winning recognition at the very top of the profession has been a battle. Finally, after more than 50 male winners, a Fields Medal goes to a woman mathematician, Maryam Mirzakhani. If you tossed a coin 51 times, your probability of 50 tails then a head would be less than one in 2,250,000,000,000,000; but nowadays close to half of maths undergraduates are women. That is a pretty stark juxtaposition. Does Mirzakhani’s success mark a turning point in the battle for women to gain more recognition in mathematics? Read more...
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16 août 2014

Life as an international academic: it can mean feeling torn in two
The Guardian homeBy Pat Thomson. We are neither expats nor migrated scholars, but double-sided people who bring a competitive edge to British universities. Academics are now highly mobile. We are internationally-focused. Even if our research is highly localised, we are very mindful of the need to foster international conversations, networks and partnerships, and publications. Read more...
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16 août 2014

Study reveals cheapest and most expensive universities to attend
The Guardian homeBy . Leicester is rated most affordable and, outside London, Oxford the most expensive, according to research by HSBC.
The research, published as students received their A-level results and discovered which university they would be studying at, found freshers heading off to the Midlands city can expect to spend an average of £196 a week on rent and living costs, compared to more than £315 for those attending UCL or Imperial College in the capital. Read more...
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16 août 2014

Safeguarding Warburg’s cultural treasure
The Guardian homeBy Graham Whitaker. Your editorial and associated article (11 August) on the position of the Warburg Institute in relation to the University of London do not fully reflect one feature of the institute. It consists of the library, the photographic collection and the archive, all representative of the Aby Warburg legacy. The third of these is also a cultural treasure, reflecting not only the history and development of the institute both in London and before but also cultural life in Europe and, after the 1933 move to London, in Britain. Its holdings reveal the effort expended by the director, Fritz Saxl, Edgar Wind and other members of the staff in negotiating the transfer from Germany and establishing the institute in its new location. Read more...
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16 août 2014

The Guardian view on universities: growing bigger
The Guardian homeBy . This year, an extra 30,000 university places will be added to the overall total. A radical higher education experiment that does not promise an era of settled certainty. Read more...
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16 août 2014

Universities focus too much on measuring activity, not quality
The Guardian homeBy Anonymous academic. This meaningless pursuit of 'quality' is transforming academics into part-time administrators. Administrators in universities used to be people who would support academics in their role. Now it feels increasingly as if the administrative machine follows Parkinson's law, not only creating more work for themselves (under the guise of quality monitoring) but also more work for people who entered academia. Read more...
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16 août 2014

Who governs science?
The Guardian homeBy . Traditionally, science holds itself to account, primarily through internal systems of peer review. But the recent retraction of two papers on stem-cell research by the journal Nature highlights weaknesses in this self-regulatory framework that scientists need to address. Read more...
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