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 ÌÇÐÄVlog 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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Research Intelligence - Citing to win as journals 'game' system
Impact factor manipulation in spotlight as Thomson Reuters targets offenders. Paul Jump reports
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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...
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Leader: Can we have the bill, please?
Despite the demise of Lords reform, fundamental changes to the academy are still unlikely to receive parliamentary scrutiny
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From Where I Sit - Beyond a joke
"How many Irish mothers does it take to change a light bulb? None. They say, 'We'll be all right here in the dark.'" This old joke was offered last month during a 12-day visit to universities and...
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Odds and quads
This small flock of fibreglass sheep appeared overnight earlier this year on a building known as The Stripe at the University of Winchester.
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Appointments
University of KentStephen PeckhamThe new director of the Centre for Health Services Studies at the University of Kent said he was "delighted" at the move. Stephen Peckham, who joins from the London...
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Sit on it
Tim Birkhead has been studying a single guillemot population for 40 years. Here he explains how such commitment provides insights that the three-year studies favoured by the research councils cannot...
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9 August 2012
Wait for it - Playing the long game has its advantages
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What inspiration blooms, watered by stormy weather
Rain is a national obsession - never more than in British films. James Clarke reveals what happens when the heavens open
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All killer, no filler
New gatekeeping needed for real choice and access, says Malcolm Gillies
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Let academic freedom ring
Martha Biondi on the black student protests of the 1960s and 1970s that transformed US campus life and led to the birth of African American studies