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AdmissionsIndependently mindedUniversity admissions officers are most impressed by applicants who demonstrate a desire to study independently, a poll has found. Almost half of the admissions officers...
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Communications channels open, but the signals are unfocused
Top UK universities' marketing fails to match peers in business or charity. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Keep your nose out of my CV
One of our senior academics, Dr Piercemuller, has denounced the establishment by commercial company Graduate Prospects of a new database that will, for a fee of £10, check the veracity of academic...
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Sabine MacCormack, 1941-2012
A historian of "exuberant energies", equally at home in the worlds of ancient Rome and colonial Latin America, has died.Sabine MacCormack was born in Frankfurt on 24 February 1941 and studied...
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Haggling over the cost of gold (1 of 2)
As a funder dedicated to ensuring that the research we support generates the maximum possible benefit for society, the Wellcome Trust strongly supports the proposed direction set out by the Working...
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Haggling over the cost of gold (2 of 2)
I fear that if we move to the gold open-access model, it will be disproportionately harmful to researchers outside large groups and to more junior members of staff who are less able to afford the...
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Social engagement
Regarding "Beyond those shores" (7 June), which features several comments by me on Kyoto University's position apropos the higher education situation in Japan: I am quoted as saying that "for us,...
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The state is all ears
Woody Caan's letter "Peer (and MP) review" (21 June) talks about the need for scientists to come forward who are willing to travel to Westminster and give Parliament the benefit of their expertise....
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All talk, not enough action
Nick Petford makes many excellent points in his discussion of "innovation" ("Greater value than money", Opinion, 28 June). I appreciate his view that in essence, "innovation is new thinking that...
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Chance now slim
I agree with John Sutherland about physical visits to the archives, visits I have made over the decades - although being a labour historian, not in such romantic venues ("Raiders of the lost archives...
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Quote for quote
Geoffrey Alderman's reluctance to give his services for free to a "private for-profit company" ("Shake the moneymakers", Letters, 28 June) seems at odds with his obvious willingness to contribute (...
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Two-tier intentions
Regarding "Quiet revolutionaries target fresh territory" (News, 21 June): the article states that some respondents see the emergence of a two-tier university system "as an 'unintended and damaging'...
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Appointments
Robert Gordon UniversityStephen VertigansRobert Gordon University has appointed Stephen Vertigans head of the School of Applied Social Studies. Professor Vertigans took up the role full time last...
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Campus round-up
Uclan/Manchester MetropolitanUdderly uniqueArchaeology students have excavated an example of a woman buried with a cow. The students from the University of Central Lancashire and Manchester...
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Lion rampant, sleeping dragon
On most indices, a comparison of the Welsh and Scottish academies shows that the latter holds the aces. As the Saltire soars, will mergers allow Wales to cope with the shock waves generated by...