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Bioscience researchNiche areas of expertise in dangerAn investigation is being held to identify niche areas of expertise that are in danger of being lost from the bioscience research community. A...
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Daytime TV: It's life, Captain
Gary Day asks what we can learn from Star Trek, enjoys a look at Wordsworth and laughs with women
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Top journals in computer science
Data provided by Thomson Reuters’ Essential Science Indicators database, 1 January 1998-31 December 2008
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Are you looking at me?
Although Poppleton has acknowledged the concerns of the ÌÇÐÄVlog Policy Institute by increasing personalised contact time with students by 0.62 per cent, a new student survey suggests that...
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... and be quick about it
Impatient editors risk upsetting manuscript referees, writes Tim Birkhead
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Leader: Watch the devilish details
The REF is moving in a direction that most of the sector is happy with, but there is still much at stake in the fine-tuning
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From where I sit - Studious Sue, not-so-clever Trevor
Earlier this year, I attended a tertiary educators' training session in which we watched a 2006 Danish film about the changing nature of students - Teaching Teaching and Understanding Understanding,...
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Tyrrell Burgess, 1931-2009
Tyrrell Burgess, an innovative educational thinker, has died.
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UCU's 8% claim would be paid for in job cuts 1
We are writing to encourage all University and College Union members to consider carefully the reasons underpinning the union's calls for a dispute. We realise that, in comparison with the...
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UCU's 8% claim would be paid for in job cuts 2
The University and College Union ballot rightly identifies redundancy as the primary threat facing academic staff and points to increased workload and harm to quality as the sure consequences. And...
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Forced labour 1
The feature on the importance of the tutor-student relationship ("The personal touch", 7 May) was a reminder of Cardinal Newman's dictum that a university should be an alma mater, knowing her...
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Forced labour 2
Students in Britain put in fewer hours partly because many now have to work part time to stay at university ("Brits study less than continental cousins", 30 April). I have to work 16 hours to...
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Research for its own sake
Philip Esler is unfair to critics of the Arts and Humanities Research Council's impact agenda such as Peter Barry when he accuses them of taking no account of "the interests of taxpayers" ("We...
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Newcomers close old gap
The gap between old and new universities is indeed closing ("The week in higher education", 7 May), but there are now five new universities in the top half of The Independent league table, the fourth...
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Devalued by oversupply
Although there are differences evident between the UK and Holland ("From where I sit: low country, low standards", 23 April), Rod Aya's observations suggest a common set of social and cultural...