Yoko Ono: TO THE LIGHT
An exhibition showcasing five decades of Yoko Ono鈥檚 work downplays her dark side in favour of more uplifting, regenerative themes, finds Helena Reckitt
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Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities
Urban centres across the world were built with racial separation in mind, Wendy Pullan discovers
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Failing the Turing test
The REF's mendacious language and mismeasurements will recognise neither singular world-changing brilliance nor the value inherent in all scholarship, Fred Inglis argues. This bureaucratic beast,...
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Publishing tail must not wag research dog
Regarding "Let's ask profitable questions" (Leader, 7 June): the urgent issue today is not publisher profits but research access for all would-be users, not just those whose institutions can afford...
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Self-destructive tendencies (1 of 2)
Following the recent decision by delegates at the University and College Union congress to resume the "work-to-rule" action by staff on pensions, the employers have (entirely predictably) broken off...
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Self-destructive tendencies (2 of 2)
As a delegate to the UCU congress, I was struck by the stark contrast between the views expressed and supported by the majority of delegates and those obtained by the general secretary in her...
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Peer (and MP) review
I wonder if the Campaign for Science and Engineering knows enough history to recognise Benito Mussolini's model of a "corporate state"? ("Loss of science expertise feared", News, 14 June.) The group...
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Creative with facts
Three cheers for Geraint Wiggins' plea for creativity in the sciences ("Hidden in plain sight", 7 June). But why is the situation so bad that this notion seems odd to so many?The source of the...
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Final bastion of freedom
The brochure for the 1936 Barcelona Peoples' Olympiad is indeed a poignant reminder of the tragedy that was the Spanish Civil War (Odds and Quads, 14 June). Barcelona was the last city to fall to...
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Gluttons for punishment
Polly Jones, in her insightful review of Orlando Figes' Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag (Books, 14 June), calls for further explanation of why some victims of...
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Choice cut
Million+ has not said that post-1992 universities would lose out because they would be in direct competition for places with private institutions ("Private providers set to go head to head with...
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I read "Die hard copy" with interest (14 June). But if a university tried to make everything digital, what would happen to degree certificates?Alex Chablo, Manchester
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Aztec empire-building
A number of articles in 糖心Vlog have reflected the unrest among UK academics at the way in which universities are managed (eg, 鈥淎cademy rots from the head and it stinks鈥, Opinion, 10...
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John Adams, 1939-2012
An "affable and amusing" scholar whose expertise ranged from 18th-century legal treatises to the latest developments in intellectual property law has died.John Adams was born on 24 December 1939,...
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