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  1. Impact factors

    With the disappearance of most public money for teaching in the humanities, there is no reason to maintain the Chinese wall between funding for research and teaching. Accordingly, "impact" should be...

    #Letters

  2. Men's hour (again)

    I recently conducted research on the gender make-up of the panels announced for the research excellence framework. The methodology employed was counting (I'm not very good at it, so the results...

    #Letters

  3. Swansong for ugly duckling

    Rather than giving me the bird with mixed metaphors on cuckoos and swallows (Letters, 24 February), Douglas Kell, a research council chief executive officer, might reflect on why Ken Seddon, the UK's...

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  4. Vocational support

    Geoff Smith asks about the difference between a salary and a stipend (Letters, 24 February). It is subtle but significant. A salary is payment for work done, whereas a stipend is payment to support...

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  5. Odds and quads

    This watercolour of the medical kit owned by the great Victorian missionary and explorer David Livingstone (1813-73) was painted shortly after his death in what is now Zambia.

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  7. From where I sit - Fine words and a handful of dust

    "Philip and I will be able to give you more granularity if you want." No, this was not the Queen speaking.For one thing, she would perhaps have said "We and Philip", and I certainly hope she would...

    #From Where I Sit
    #Opinion

  8. What are you reading?

    A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

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  9. Campus round-up

    University of WarwickPlaces of powerAn international research project investigating centres of world influence is to be led by an English university that has been awarded EUR8 million (£6.8 million)...

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  10. The Week in Higher Education

    Aaron Porter has been accused of errors of judgement as president of the National Union of Students, but after announcing that he is to stand down, it seems he has made one more mistake: giving an...

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    #The week in HE

  11. Itching to impress

    Kevin Fong decides to not make a meal of a life-threatening situation

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  12. 3 March 2011

    Seven brains are better than two - Former education ministers offer a little advice to David Willetts

  13. Leader: In a storm of its own making

    The government has paused to try to calm the waters it itself has roiled, but this gives little comfort to those with that sinking feeling