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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Occupations are read the Riot Act by havens of free thought
Call for 'safe protest zones' as demonstrators face violence on US campuses. Jon Marcus reports
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The week in higher education
? An attempt to reignite the "Climategate" row with the leak of a second batch of emails stolen from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia fell flat. Whereas the release of the...
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From where I sit - State the case for the public good
It has grown fashionable recently to pronounce that the distinction between public and private colleges and universities is now anachronistic.In Australia, as well as in the UK, we understand all too...
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Appointments
London School of EconomicsPaul De GrauweAn economist and former member of the Belgian Parliament has been named the first holder of the John Paulson chair in European political economy at the London...
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LSE's 'mistakes were legion' in Libyan dealings, Woolf finds
‘Damning’ report criticises governance, but Saif Gaddafi likely to keep PhD. David Matthews writes
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Leader: More than just a robe and cap
A chancellor may seem archaic, but the role can be updated and reinterpreted to perform a truly valuable service for universities
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Research intelligence - Fanfare for the common front
Transparency and support for all UK science are the aims of the STFC's new chief. Paul Jump reports
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Thou shalt not sit on fences
Academia must follow the Church’s lead in debating ethics, says Malcolm Gillies
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1 December 2011
Holding out for some heroes - An embattled academy needs a new breed of chancellor
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Value quality of research, not grant proposals, Sir Paul Nurse urges
Research funders should avoid “micromanaging” research and requiring applicants to set out the impact of their proposals, according to the president of the Royal Society.
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European Commission unveils research spending plans
The European Research Council’s budget will increase by nearly 80 per cent if the European Commission’s detailed proposals for its research and innovation spending are adopted.
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Woolf returns damning verdict on LSE’s Libya links
The London School of Economics was guilty of multiple failures of governance and management in its links with the deposed Gaddafi regime, an inquiry has concluded.
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Teesside lecturer arrested in phone hacking inquiry
A senior lecturer at Teesside University is reported to have been arrested as part of Operation Weeting, the ongoing Metropolitan Police investigation into phone hacking.