Libel law is an ass
Let’s abolish it and nurture scepticism instead, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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Research intelligence: Dynamic duo
Two free-to-use Web 2.0 tools offer scholars the opportunity for greater collaboration. James Everest reports
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: Cheap writ buys costly silence
English libel law allows all comers from across the globe to chill free speech and still scholarly inquiry. Reform is now essential
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From where I sit: Act of inclusion goes unnoticed
In 2008, the US Congress reauthorised the ÌÇÐÄVlog Act - after a five-year delay. Back in 2003, the House of Representatives passed a controversial revision to the Act that would have created...
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Elizabeth Fallaize, 1950-2009
A leading authority on French literature who became the first female tutorial fellow of her Oxford college, and the university's pro vice-chancellor for education, has died.Elizabeth Fallaize was...
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Do the maths to solve pensions time-bomb 1
Your article on final-salary pensions does not inspire confidence in those undertaking the Universities Superannuation Scheme review.First, an 8 per cent technical deficit is trivial; stock market...
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Do the maths to solve pensions time-bomb 2
Regretfully, many staff in higher education have already witnessed the end of final-salary pension schemes ("Warning sounded on final-salary pensions", 7 January).Institutions such as the...
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Do the maths to solve pensions time-bomb 3
It is important to clarify a number of points as the predictable scaremongering about the USS pension scheme appears to be increasing. First, such scaremongering is unhelpful. The University and...
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Longer odds for Palestine
Bahram Bekhradnia's account of his experiences as an observer of Palestinian universities,"Battered but unbowed" (31 December), concludes by acknowledging the "extraordinary determination" of those...
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Paradoxical petard
Your reports on the challenges to business schools and their curriculums to become more ethically and critically minded highlight the way in which the nature of management theory has been...
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Not abolished, improved
Whatever the overall merits of your glum piece on the future of the humanities, "The core connection" (7 January), it is certainly wrong about one thing. It is untrue that the Arts and Humanities...
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Confederacy of dunces
Kevin Sharpe ("La Triviata: public discourse is trapped in a downward spiral", 7 January) is dead right: the interests and mentality of today's students offer a clear reflection of the anti-thinking...
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Apples and oranges
With reference to your article "Union 'incensed' by staff research profiles" (7 January), the University of Leeds is exploring the feasibility of developing sets of metrics that describe academic...
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The language trap
Duncan Shaw is mistaken (Letters, 7 January): in my letter of 17 December, I did not call on university teachers to pay more attention to Luce Irigaray. Rather, I said that I had drawn on her work....