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Inscrutable and proud
Brian Bloch’s excellent piece on impenetrable academic German (“Tapeworm got your tongue?”, News, 12 June) reminded me of a comment I heard many years ago about the German professoriate: “Sie schämen...
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Timetable for trouble
I was concerned to read the rather parochial view to extending the teaching timetable at the University of Exeter to 9pm (“No one fancies the late shift”, News, 12 June).Clearly, the concerns of...
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Brake before breaking mould
I have been interested to see that my letter on open access for monographs (29 May) has prompted a series of responses, acknowledging that this is a highly complex question and offering assurances...
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Belfast Project aftermath
In the lengthy piece on the Boston College oral history archives (“Oral history: where next after the Belfast Project?”, Features, 5 June), you say that “an investigation by the Society of American...
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News in brief - 19 June 2014
Post-study work visasMPs set to launch inquiryMPs are to hold an inquiry into the closure of the post-study work route for international students. The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Migration will...
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Grant winners - 19 June 2014
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilResearch GrantsAward winner: Daniel NusseyInstitution: University of EdinburghValue: £639,824Life-long telomere dynamics, health and fitness in a...
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The week in higher education - 19 June 2014
The University of East Anglia scooped the top prize at this year’s Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2014. Held at Grosvenor House Hotel in London on 17 June, UEA picked up the...
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Vice-chancellors speak out!
Our vice-chancellor has vigorously rebutted the suggestion that vice-chancellors have failed to speak out on higher education policy.He told our reporter Keith Ponting (30) that he particularly...
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19 June 2014
Immersive research - Laurie Taylor on the endangered art of ethnography
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Taylor & Francis apologises after ‘censorship’ debate
Journal’s editors withdraw threat to resign after publisher apologises for obstructing report critical of industry practices
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Campus close-up: Coventry University
‘Captain Cyborg’ Kevin Warwick on how a new research focus and 200 extra staff can help the institution rise up the rankings
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The competing bids for Obama’s presidential library
Jon Marcus reports on the Chicago institutions battling it out for the Barack Obama presidential library and museum
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Sir David Eastwood, James Kneale, David Lewin, Lisa-Marie Shillito and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Terrorism awareness begins at home
Teachers can reveal the history of domestic terrorism and address its impact, says Lee Maril