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If critical thinking involves "the ability to recognise problems...and to comprehend and use language with accuracy" as Linda Elder argues ("Achieving critical mass", 25 November), perhaps she should...
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One gives one's blessing
A.W. Purdue claims that until Princess Louise's marriage to the Marquis of Lorne in 1871, "no royal had married a subject since Henry VIII" ("Commoner chameleon", 25 November).In fact, James II...
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Too complex for the jury?
Some think that traditional peer review, the guardian of sound science, is not up to the task of assessing large-scale multidisciplinary research. Paul Jump puts the question to the experts
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Go! Fight! Win!
For the US academy, sport - particularly American football - isn't a matter of life and death: it's much more important than that. David Gewanter discusses the big-money, big-reputation stakes of the...
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Feel the rush
Incisive debate on contemporary issues is curtailed by the glacial pace of academic publishing, argues Tim Luckhurst. Adopting new journalistic models would inject vitality into academics' work
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Film review: Catfish
A fresh take on an old tale impresses Duncan Wu, but leaves him with misgivings about exploitation
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2 December 2010
Can you see the big picture? - The problems multidisciplinary research poses for peer review
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Tara Brabazon: The invisible support network
Librarians remain an often unseen and unappreciated element of good teaching and research. Tara Brabazon interviews an extraordinary one about the challenges the profession faces at the front line of...
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Wales shields its students from higher fees
Students from Wales will be spared additional costs of higher education wherever they study in the UK despite confirmation that Welsh universities will be allowed to charge tuition fees of 拢9,000 a...
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Labour loses White Paper vote
MPs have rejected Labour calls for the publication of a higher education White Paper before the parliamentary vote on tuition fees, as the opposition accused the coalition government of wanting the...
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Student finance reforms would leave more than 60% of graduates poorer, says Million+ report
More than 60 per cent of graduates will be poorer across their lifetimes if government reforms to student finance are voted through, according to new analysis.
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Seeking volunteers: scholars urged to take pay freeze to aid Scottish academy
Academics in Scotland should accept a voluntary pay freeze to help shore up the sector鈥檚 finances and prevent a decline in course quality, a scholar has argued.
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Weinberg to take the reins at Kingston
Kingston University has named its new vice-chancellor.
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Should lecturers leave unruly classes?
By Scott Jaschik for Inside Higher Ed
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Friends in need: the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics and Scholars at Risk help to rebuild lives
鈥淣ot much to celebrate at the moment in Baghdad,鈥 May Witwit emailed Bee Rowlatt on 7 December 2006. 鈥淎 threat has reached university teachers and students鈥arning them to stop attending lectures or...