Eat more humble pie this year
The new year heralds the season of good intentions. Academics would do well to follow the humble example shown by Sir Alexander Todd, the Nobel prizewinning Scottish chemist. According to Chem@Cam ,...
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Grades too low? Try science
Australian Science and Education Minister Julie Bishop’s new year’s resolution is to get more people to study science at university. She is determined to increase demand for science degrees in a bid...
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Insider knowledge?
Sheffield Hallam University’s corporate communications team faced charges of cheating at its annual Christmas jamboree. The team hosted a quiz for local media contacts at which "everyone had a...
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Wheelie festive card
The annual crop of university Christmas cards threw up the usual array of tasteful snow-covered campuses. The determinedly unconventional Terence Kealey, vice-chancellor of Buckingham University,...
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Today's news
Christian students sue in gay rights row Christian students have launched a High Court battle against their university after they were banned from its facilities due to a refusal to accept gay rights...
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Laurie Taylor Column
Enjoying your goose, Roger? It's Nigel Slater. Who's Nigel Slater? Your goose is Nigel Slater. From his book. Roast goose with juniper sauce and apple and lemon puree. Roger, is everything all right...
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Leader: Heading for a future that looks a muddy Brown
After the tumultuous events of the past 12 months - the academic pay dispute, the introduction of top-up fees and the beginning of the end of the research assessment exercise, to name but three -...
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Too early to panic
Your article "Pay deals set to force sector £68m into red" (December 22/29) showed the predictable response from the bean-counters. Accountants are trained to be conservative in their forecasting and...
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Not so far back in time
Vera Rich's acutely sensitive East European antennae have picked up something very important in Transylvania ("Tensions mount as staff fired for using Hungarian", December 15). Unfortunately, the...
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Maggie for Labour? 1
D. L. Clements asks "why all this fuss about Christian Unions?" (Letters, December 15). S/he overlooks the parallel that can be drawn between faith-based organi-sations and political parties. Surely...
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Maggie for Labour? 2
In the 1990s, I was a committee member of a Christian Union that operated outside the auspices of the student union. While this did little to limit our work on campus, I do feel it is important for...
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The long and short of it 1
Richard Baggaley (Letters, December 22/29) suggests scientists should be encouraged to write books. A better goal would be to induce scholars in sociology and the humanities to write fewer. Articles...
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The long and short of it 2
Questions about who reads what academics write - and what they do with the information having read it - are fascinating. But when questions are set only in the context of giving a rationale to...
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The measure of trust
It will need more than watchfulness to ensure that the central purpose of university life remains intact ("Academe's value must be upheld", Leader, December 15). Neither "modernisation" nor "...
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OK for some to pay
Ruth Scurr's views on proofreading agencies (Opinion, December 15) struck this freelance tutor as confused and disingenuous. So it was OK for her to tidy up a fellow student's PhD thesis for a token...