Nobody likes us!
In an unusually frank press release, our Deputy Director of Logo Development, Roger Placement, has declared that our university is "not at all bothered" by the news that it has failed to gain one of...
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Gold access, the destroyer of worlds (1 of 3)
Salvatore Babones makes some important points in his heartfelt polemic against pay-to-publish open-access journals ("High-maintenance model", Opinions, 26 July), acknowledging that only the elite...
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Gold access, the destroyer of worlds (2 of 3)
Salvatore Babones is correct to identify the potentially divisive effect of the introduction of the "gold" model of open-access publishing. The problems will not be confined to the arts, humanities...
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Gold access, the destroyer of worlds (3 of 3)
Salvatore Babones sees the consequence of the Finch report being "the destruction of the arts, humanities and social sciences".There are many disadvantages of the gold route - not the least of which...
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Gender politics
The Women's Library and Information Center Foundation in Istanbul is deeply shocked and saddened to hear that London Metropolitan University is looking for a new custodian for its Women's Library due...
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Just the job
The provision now being made for career breaks in the research excellence framework to which Daniel Hill refers ("Double standards", Letters, 26 July) is essential and long overdue.Some years ago, I...
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Money for old rope
There is no evidence that private sector competition drives up academic standards, but there is clear evidence that it drives up fees. Wherever a limited supply of a desirable commodity - such as...
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Generation gap (1 of 2)
It may be that my advancing years have rendered me more sensitive, but I have a strong suspicion that the research by the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England that concludes that a "...
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Generation gap ( 2 of 2)
We should be discussing how society is going to avoid, as life expectancy increases, the prospect of an ever-increasing permanent army of retired workers supported by a state with ever-shrinking...
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Misuse and abuse
John Radford ("Precise definitions", Letters, 2 August) says that in asking to which historical point we should refer for standards of English correctness, I am asking the wrong question, and that it...
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Sir Albert Sloman, 1921-2012
The founding vice-chancellor of the University of Essex - an institution shaped by "his clear-sighted vision" - has died.Sir Albert Sloman was born in Cornwall on 14 February 1921 and educated at...
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Campus round-up
Nottingham Trent UniversityHive mindsA colony of 10,000 honeybees has been established on a university's city campus in the hope of boosting urban biodiversity and helping to arrest the insect's...
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The week in higher education
? The Russell Group has officially welcomed its four new arrivals from the 1994 Group: Durham, Exeter and York universities and Queen Mary, University of London. To mark their arrival, the mission...