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News in brief
AustraliaWe want to know if you still careThe new Australian tertiary education minister has a raft of problems to deal with just months before the federal election, according to newspaper reports....
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Grant winners - 14 February 2013
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Tim AlbrechtInstitution: Imperial College LondonValue: £507,855Ringtronics: single-molecule circuitry for electronics and spintronicsAward...
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Appointments - 14 February 2013
Karolinska InstituteAnders HamstenThe new president of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden said that the best thing about being appointed to the position was being able to lead a “strong and expanding...
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Mary McIntosh, 1936-2013
One of the UK’s best-known feminist academics has died. Mary McIntosh was born in north London on 13 March 1936 and educated at High Wycombe School. After a first degree in philosophy, politics and...
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Fit for the future
The demands on Ucas are growing and changing in nature. Ucas’ board must adapt to reflect this, says Steve Smith
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Oxford consults on 'associate professor' grade
Institution aims to make job adverts globally understandable
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Loughborough faces QAA criticism
University’s provision in collaboration with overseas partners ‘requires improvement’, report states
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Jury's out on trial by ideological ordeal
Gary Thomas joins the growing body of sceptics who are, like us, fundamentally challenging the fashionable positivistic totem that is the randomised controlled trial, both in terms of its alleged...
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Separate and unequal
Malcolm Gillies could not be more mistaken (“Independence pays”, Opinion, 31 January): we need only look at the US Ivy League and our own “public” schools to see the damage that such elitism does. In...
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Flawed psychology
Stephen Gibson acknowledges that there may be a “train wreck looming” for one subfield of social psychology but not for the field more generally (“This is bigger than social psychology”, Letters, 24...
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Open and shut enquiries
Your recent coverage of open access has attracted a good deal of comment, not always well informed, on the arts and humanities realities (“High price of gold: how early career researchers will suffer...
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No blame attached
Regarding Anthony Wilkes’ response to my work on the black and minority ethnic attainment gap (“Blaming the victims”, Letters, 7 February): I need to clarify that my research does not “blame” BME...
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Still looking for Richard
Strangely, Laurie Taylor did not mention the research excellence framework impact arising from Poppleton University’s discovery of Boudicca (“Waking the dead”, The Poppletonian, 7 February): after...
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Tigger release
Robert Appelbaum discusses the perils of introducing conference speakers (“Present harms”, From Where I Sit, 7 February), but a choice introduction can - wittingly or otherwise - help to shape the...