My terrifying – and valuable – time in a psychiatric ward
During a bout of severe depression, a professor in the US was admitted to a secure hospital unit. He writes here of his experiences
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Do academic social networks share academics’ interests?
David Matthews examines the approach of ResearchGate, Academia.edu and Mendeley to profit, user data and open access publishing
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The week in higher education – 7 April 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Grant winners – 7 April 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Times Higher Education Leadership & Management Awards 2016 shortlist announced
Are you on this year's shortlist?
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Laurie Taylor – 7 April 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Subtle racism is alive in the academy’s corridors
To eradicate the problem, we need everyone to examine their consciences and recognise their biases, says Kalwant Bhopal
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Is the ESRC below the radar or out of the loop?
We know too little about the impact of a research council that funds work with big policy implications, says David Walker
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Last man in the university: it’s 13 o’clock on campus
Control, surveillance and thought manipulation: there is an undercurrent of 1984 in today’s academy, doublethinks Eric Blair
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Doing fine in Kazakhstan
We at Nazarbayev University would like the opportunity to comment on the piece by Ararat L. Osipian about the university (“Can a young university be a world-leading university?”, Features, 31 March...
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More than money
In her blog post “A vote for Brexit is a vote for uncertainty in higher education” (17 March), Angela Eagle concentrates on the figures in broad terms of student numbers and hard cash, which I guess...
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Devil’s in the REF
The language of the “philosophy of education” that Alis Oancea talks about is all very well (“Challenging the grudging consensus behind the REF”, 25 March), but I submit that the continual surrender...
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Brian, not Brian
Mark Beaumont will indeed soon be rector of the University of Dundee (HE&Me, News, 31 March). However, he will be succeeding the Brian Cox (Dundonian actor), not the other Brian Cox (Mancunian...
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Don’t bank on it
It may well be the case that individualism and short-termism contribute to the UK’s failure (relative to Germany) in building a state-backed system to commercialise research (“Individualism ‘explains...