Metrics critic sacked by Queen Mary University of London
John Allen, who wrote to The Lancet about the role of metrics in redundancies, has been dismissed for refusing to teach a course
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Break-up of union will be painful
The English are not seriously contemplating the effects of Scottish independence. They must, writes Danny Dorling
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The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language, by John H. McWhorter
Kerstin Hoge on a manifesto correcting the view that the language we speak affects how we think
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7 August 2014
Drift away - Why academics do better work with some rest and play
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Crowdsourcing to fund studies
It is becoming more common to ask members of the public to pay your fees, but is it acceptable?
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Appointments - 7 August 2014
The latest higher education appointments
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Q&A with Bashir Makhoul
We speak to the Palestinian artist and pro vice-chancellor (academic portfolio and market development) at Birmingham City University
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Norman Gibson, 1931-2014
A towering figure in Northern Irish higher education, notable for his “courage, integrity and independence of mind”, has died
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World in brief - 7 August 2014
Source: AlamyUnited StatesWomen under-represented at the topOnly 40 per cent of vice-presidents and deans of admission at US universities are female, despite the fact that 70 per cent of admissions...
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Grant winners - 7 August 2014
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilStandard researchAward winner: Jiawei MiInstitution: University of HullValue: £308,737Development of efficient and scalable ultrasound-assisted...
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News in brief - 7 August 2014
Female vice-chancellorsAnd then there were threeJanet Beer has been named as the next vice-chancellor at the University of Liverpool. Professor Beer, currently vice-chancellor of Oxford Brookes...
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Going to waste
Shame on the University of the Arts London for its po-faced reaction to Ann Plumb’s ceramic turds (“Scatological art difficult to pass”, News, 31 July). What would the costive UAL make of the faecal...
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Ceremonial duties
At the University of Portsmouth, where I lecture, all graduands receive two free graduation tickets and pay just £10 for extra tickets. But when our younger son graduated from his university recently...
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Hefce’s supporting role
The report on the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s role in learning and teaching (“ ‘Superficial’: £500m fails to develop class acts”, News, 31 July) was commissioned by the Higher...