Editorial expectations
To paraphrase Churchill, 鈥淭he peer review system is the worst system there is鈥part from all the others鈥 (鈥淪lighted by the gatekeepers鈥, News, 18/25 December).Journal editors need skin as thick as...
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Faith, hope and charity
In Norman Bonney鈥檚 letter 鈥淪ever support for Kirk鈥 (18/25 December), he proposes that the privileging of Church of Scotland candidates training for ministry in the Scottish universities should end....
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USS: index of anguish
In the debate over the level of the salary cap to be introduced into USS pensions, in which members would receive career revalued benefits (CRB) on up to 拢50,000 of their salary, little seems to have...
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REF: late crusaders and early adopters
While we the undersigned colleagues of Derek Sayer essentially agree that the research excellence framework is deeply problematic (we think the vast majority of the sector do as well), we are bemused...
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The week in higher education - 8 January 2015
Marina Warner may have railed against the 鈥渃ulture of obedience and deference鈥 in UK universities, but she will soon be the one kneeling before authority. The award-winning scholar, who resigned from...
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REF 2014: who gave best performance?
More than 80 per cent of the physical, medical and life sciences research assessed at UK universities is world-leading or internationally excellent, according to the results of the research...
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Present research clearly to reach policymakers, academic says
Jonathan Shepherd, Cardiff medical scholar and 鈥榃hat Works鈥 pioneer, urges researchers to keep it brief and abandon obfuscation
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How was it for you? REF views coloured by rank, discipline
Study finds variations by seniority, subject and institutional mission in scholars鈥 published opinions on the research excellence framework
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Some cheats are enterprising, if not moral
Christopher聽Bigsby on those who take a creative approach to academic rigour
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Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande
A surgeon finds that what empowers terminally ill patients is humane honesty, finds Helen Bynum
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Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock, by Clare Clarke
Sharon Wheeler applauds a rigorous and passionate appraisal of Conan Doyle鈥檚 literary contemporaries
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Persons, Animals, Ourselves, by Paul F. Snowdon
Are we primarily biological entities, or embodied consciousnesses? Christopher Belshaw on a fine book examining the arguments
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Rethinking Unemployment and the Work Ethic: Beyond the 鈥楺uasi-Titmuss鈥 Paradigm, by Andrew Dunn
A thoughtful study on joblessness has little to say on the most pressing problems, finds Kitty Stewart
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Global Philosophy: What Philosophy Ought to Be, by Nicholas Maxwell
John Shand on a message that is undermined exaggeration
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Classical Masculinity and the Spectacular Body on Film: The Mighty Sons of Hercules, by Daniel O鈥橞rien
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones on a study of the muscle and myth movies of the 1950s and 1960s