Peer and present dangers (3 of 3)
Editors and publishers do take steps to drop reviewers who are abusive, inaccurate or cursory in their work. However, we are often faced with the fact that almost any review is better than nothing....
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Ends and meanings (1 of 2)
The trouble with Martin Willis' admirable feature "Curiosity knows no bounds" (13 September) is that there is a flaw at the heart of his argument. Yes, the sciences and humanities share a motivation...
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Ends and meanings (2 of 2)
Martin Willis' defence of the humanities in the face of the current political bias towards the sciences was eloquent, impassioned and timely. I was puzzled, though, by his stated regret that the...
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Bang for our bucks
Roger Brown ("Inequality? You ain't seen nothing yet", Letters, 30 August) identifies Edge Hill University as the worst funded higher education institution in the UK. There are specific reasons for...
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Ill-judged final word
Helen Sword's piece on academics writing for a wider audience ("Narrative trust", 6 September) omitted to mention some of the pitfalls.For example, the more carefully written a piece is, the more...
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Janet Altman, 1955-2012
A leading conference interpreter who went on to play a crucial role in the training of new generations of interpreters has died.Janet Altman was born in Manchester on 31 March 1955 and then moved to...
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THE Scholarly Web
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Campus round-up
University of BathTo beat diabetes, sprintCouch potatoes are being sought to take part in research into Type 2 diabetes. Researchers at the University of Bath have shown that performing a couple of...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Learning how to provide Vegas' circus maximus
Jon Marcus meets the engineers specially trained to create Cirque du Soleil's astonishing special effects
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The week in higher education
? An archaeological dig by university researchers in a council car park has apparently uncovered the skeleton of Richard III, The Daily Telegraph reported on 13 September. Academics from the...
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Leader: No one is escaping the mire
With student admissions down 54,000 on last year, even elite institutions are facing severe financial hardship
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From Where I Sit - Dissociated thought, bloody act
On a recent visit to Bergen in Norway, it was raining and, gloomily, everything on the menu was fish. The Anders Behring Breivik trial was coming to a close in Oslo yet you couldn't get it on the...
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Odds and quads
This sculpture of a "terror bird", with painted polystyrene eye, can be found in the Alfred Denny Museum at the University of Sheffield.
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Appointments
University of the West of EnglandGabriel ScallyThe new director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments at the University of the West of England said he...