News in brief - 8 January 2015
Teacher trainingScotland funds 250 extra placesFunding to increase teacher training places at Scottish universities by more than 8 per cent has been announced by the Holyrood government. The...
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Stefan Baral, Sir David Bell, Kathryn Ecclestone, Roger Morgan and Uwe Schütte...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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World in brief - 8 January 2015
Source: GettyMacedoniaFrustrated young scholars are fed upAnger over low pay, cronyism and excessive workloads may lead to an “exodus” of academics from Macedonia, a study claims. Some 65 per cent of...
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US higher education: more options than McDonald’s menu
Students searching for the perfect university must value the diversity on offer and be aware of the complexity it brings, says Alan Ruby
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Grant winners - 8 January 2015
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Simon BeltInstitution: Plymouth UniversityValue: £173,049Quantification of sea-ice carbon within Arctic ecosystemsAward winner: Hugh R. A...
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Seats of learning
Graffiti. That’s what’s missing from John Sutherland’s examination of campus lavatorial facilities (“At your convenience”, Features, 18/25 December).“A woman without a man is like a fish without a...
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Editorial expectations
To paraphrase Churchill, “The peer review system is the worst system there is…apart from all the others” (“Slighted by the gatekeepers”, News, 18/25 December).Journal editors need skin as thick as...
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Faith, hope and charity
In Norman Bonney’s letter “Sever support for Kirk” (18/25 December), he proposes that the privileging of Church of Scotland candidates training for ministry in the Scottish universities should end....
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USS: index of anguish
In the debate over the level of the salary cap to be introduced into USS pensions, in which members would receive career revalued benefits (CRB) on up to £50,000 of their salary, little seems to have...
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REF: late crusaders and early adopters
While we the undersigned colleagues of Derek Sayer essentially agree that the research excellence framework is deeply problematic (we think the vast majority of the sector do as well), we are bemused...
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The week in higher education - 8 January 2015
Marina Warner may have railed against the “culture of obedience and deference” in UK universities, but she will soon be the one kneeling before authority. The award-winning scholar, who resigned from...
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REF 2014: who gave best performance?
More than 80 per cent of the physical, medical and life sciences research assessed at UK universities is world-leading or internationally excellent, according to the results of the research...
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Present research clearly to reach policymakers, academic says
Jonathan Shepherd, Cardiff medical scholar and ‘What Works’ pioneer, urges researchers to keep it brief and abandon obfuscation
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How was it for you? REF views coloured by rank, discipline
Study finds variations by seniority, subject and institutional mission in scholars’ published opinions on the research excellence framework