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  1. Indian students treat UK visa as 'marriage dowry'

    Student visas were used so extensively by Indians to gain the right to work in the UK that they became known as “marriage dowries”, the head of migration policy at the Home Office has said.At a...

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  2. Personnel 'can't be chosen on citations alone'

    Universities should not depend solely on citation statistics when making personnel decisions, the new head of Thomson Reuters’ Scientific and Scholarly Research unit has said.Gordon Macomber, who was...

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  4. Spin-offs lose their momentum

    Scotland shows reversal of trend, possibly due to stronger public funding. Elizabeth Gibney writes

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  5. News in brief

    Academic promotionMarriage has variable benefitsA report from the American Historical Association provides fresh evidence of the impact of marital status and gender on academic careers. Deputy...

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  6. Marriage takes work and is never easy

    I am the leader of one of the few higher education institutions in the Republic of Ireland that has completed a merger in the past two decades (my institution, the Limerick Institute of Technology,...

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  7. Local zero

    Regarding your piece “Broad-minded unions reject local pay talks at Exeter” (News, 24 January). The statements made by the University of Exeter’s departing registrar, David Allen, indicate that the...

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  8. Harmful neocolonialism

    Jared Diamond, in his book The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? (Books, 3 January), makes two erroneous assertions, which, if they go unchallenged, will set back...

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  9. Entry points

    I note with interest that the UK Border Agency is piloting an electronic application system for Tier 4 applicants. This provides a welcome opportunity for the department to address the inherent...

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  10. Pay less, lose all

    In the debate about the competition between massive open online courses (Moocs), conventional universities and online/distance education, we should take output into account (“Coursera founder: Mooc...

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  11. Still pressing panic button

    I was saddened to learn of the death of Stanley Cohen (Obituary, 24 January). His classic tome Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers (1972) was used as a textbook when I...

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  12. Lessons won't be learned

    Your article “Universities bypassed as teaching goes direct” (News, 24 January) is long-awaited recognition of the impact government policy on initial teacher training is having on university...

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  13. Offensive characters

    The most depressing aspect of the column on scientific practice (THE Scholarly Web, 24 January) was that despite the Twitterati’s efforts to boil everything down to a few characters’ worth of essence...

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