The campus manager: friend or foe?
Laurie Taylor and Simeon Underwood offer some helpful insights into the current antipathy between academics and university managers (鈥淜eeping the peace鈥, Features, 28聽May). Underwood is right to...
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Peer review not yet sunk
Richard Smith says that when he was editor of the British Medical Journal, he deliberately inserted eight errors into a paper and sent it to聽300 reviewers. None of them spotted more than five errors...
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Students, then salaries
The comments regarding the two-tier pay structure at the London School of Economics made by Indi Seehra, director of human resources, omit the fact that it is students鈥 money that is propping up the...
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The art of persuasion
Diana Beech wants 鈥渢o see fairness, equality and justice prevail in any policies governing鈥 her country. And then she voted Tory (鈥淎ttitude is everything鈥, Opinion, 21 May). To base one鈥檚 voting on...
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New PhDs losing the plot
The feature on a new style for PhD theses struck an uncomfortable note (鈥淟ast era鈥檚 model鈥, 21聽May). A couple of weeks ago, I聽examined one such thesis consisting of introduction and conclusions...
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Universities UK confirms opposition to Israel boycott
Universities have confirmed their opposition to any academic boycott of Israel following votes by student and lecturer groups in favour of sanctions.
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Government urged to invest more in science
The UK needs to stop using greater efficiency in research as justification for funding cuts, a vice-chancellor and ex-research council head has said.
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David Willetts: allow student loans to be used abroad
The government should lift restrictions to allow British students to use state loans for fees abroad, the former universities minister has claimed
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Louise Richardson: radicalisation best tackled by education
Education is the best possible antidote to radicalisation, the academic set to be the next vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford has said
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NUS president blocks national demonstration bid
The National Union of Students will not hold a national demonstration against austerity and student poverty this autumn after outgoing president Toni Pearce used her casting vote to block the action
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TeachHigher 'disbanded' ahead of campus protest
The University of Warwick has scrapped controversial plans to use a scheme called TeachHigher to employ hourly paid teaching and research staff
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University of Law sold to Global University Systems
The government says it will help ensure that there is 鈥渕inimal to disruption to students鈥 at the University of Law and that 鈥渋ts high quality of education is upheld鈥 following the purchase
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US investigation unveils alleged testing fraud
By Elizabeth Redden and Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Cautious response to PhD loans proposal
Scientific and university bodies have reacted warily to the proposed introduction of student loans for doctoral students