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Handgun permits held by ‘about 5 per cent’ of US university leaders
Around 5 per cent of US university presidents hold a permit to carry a concealed handgun, according to a survey of 401 college leaders.
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THE podcast: 5 June 2014 issue review
Download the podcastThe possible resignation of a journal’s editorial board, the US universities turning to private firms to recruit overseas students, and the University and College Union congress...
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Place-hacker Bradley Garrett: research at the edge of the law
Bradley Garrett, whose fieldwork was seized and used in court against the urban explorers he studied, says researchers need clear support
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Tables arrangements may be a distraction
Focus on league tables could shift Middle Eastern universities from honourable priorities, argues Cesar Wazen
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How Not to Be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life, by Jordan Ellenberg
Tony Mann enjoys a fresh application of complex mathematical thinking to commonplace events
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5 June 2014
Confidential concerns - Does research involving those at the edge of the law need better protection?
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Marking? It’ll be done in just a tick
Lecturer Emma Rees has 65 essays to mark. But first, Iced Gems, tea, more tea…
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Strike ballot at King’s College London over proposed job cuts
Up to 120 positions to be lost across three health schools
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To a T
Re What are you reading? (Books, 15 May). Sir David Bell’s choice, Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life, could not have come from a more appropriate publishing house – Vintage.Peter B. BakerLondon
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Nothing to blush about
This magazine recently highlighted the fact that Kinki University in Japan is anxious to change its name, and you invited us at Bishop Grosseteste University to consider a similar move (The week in...
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Passionate style counsel
Felipe Fernández-Armesto is annoyed by students’ ignorance of their own language (“Irrevocably tongue-tied”, Opinion, 22 May): they submit essays riddled with repetition, clichés, jargon and the...
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Ages of heaven and hell
I retired from a Russell Group university on 30 September 2011, so was ineligible by one day to negotiate an extension to my career in light of the abolition of the default retirement age on 1 ...
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Red heads
Many subtle features of Eastern European authoritarianism have been adopted in the process of creeping Stalinisation by the managers of UK universities (“My rallies of endeavour will ensure the...
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Union shutout is a cause for concern
I read with considerable disquiet the letter from Sir David Bell, the vice-chancellor of the University of Reading (“Forum for the Future”, Letters, 29 May).Vice-chancellors do, of course, need to...