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  1. Open the floodgates

    “Fools’ gold? (14 February) is an excellent and perceptive summary of the extant open-access proposals. Let me declare now that I am an editor of an Elsevier journal that currently runs on the...

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  2. Knee-squeeze reaction

    Why did Felipe Fernández-Armesto feel the need to begin his article on sex scandals in higher education by describing a former student as “Statuesque. Stunning. Spectacular,” before suggesting “more...

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  3. Access dividends

    In regards to “QAA highlights problems with UK accounting degree” (News, 21 March): I felt it was important to address three points.First, students are deemed as registered on the BSc programme on...

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  4. Truly avant-garde

    I was disappointed with the reader responses to “Lines of investigation” and “Opus versus output”, your articles about artistic practice as research (7 March). Of the two professors emeritus numbered...

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  5. Real-world concerns

    The Financial Times’ Michael Skapinker queries the effectiveness of online lectures (The week in higher education, 21 March): “how long are people watching before they flip to Facebook?” As anyone...

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  6. Fragile position

    Chris Ormell, with his “key incoherencies that have quietly enabled so much palpable retrogression” (“Infinite regression”, Letters, 21 March), seems to have forgotten that people who live in glass...

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  7. 21 - 27 March 2013 - The week in higher education

    Anyone familiar with the views of Edzard Ernst may be surprised to learn that he was on the board of the journal Homeopathy. But this cognitive dissonance was ended last week when the journal sacked...

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  8. A greater currency than cash

    When pension pots are full, generosity would fit the zeitgeist better than salary top-ups

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  10. Female professor appointed

    We are delighted to confirm that our university is to appoint its very first Professor of Female Representation.In a statement announcing the new position, our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs...

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    #Laurie
    #Laurie Taylor
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  12. Creative reading

    Creative writing is surreptitiously transforming English as a university subject, argues Nicholas Royle. But its inexorable rise could bring benefits, including a new form of ‘creative reading’,...

  13. Awards and promotions

    University of LeedsPaul Stewart“I had a tear in my eye,” said the new dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Leeds of the moment he learned of his appointment, which will take him back...