Jakes Gerwel, 1946-2012
A leading academic, anti-apartheid campaigner and close colleague of Nelson Mandela has died.Gert Johannes (Jakes) Gerwel was born in rural Somerset East, South Africa in 1946, and attended the...
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Grant winners
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL2012 CASE studentships• Award winner: Anna Hine• Institution: Aston University• Value: £108,173To work in partnership with Isogenica Ltd to...
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Don't tar discipline with Stapel brush
The report of the Levelt, Noort and Drenth committees into the fraudulent research practices of the social psychologist Diederik Stapel performs a valuable service for the academic community. In...
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Separate spheres
In your item on the UK Border Agency's raid of Leeds Professional College, you report that this came despite the institution "passing the educational oversight test" and being "QAA-approved" ("...
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Vanity management (1 of 2)
Queen Mary, University of London's promotional material hypes its success in the 2008 research assessment exercise against the sparkling backdrop of new buildings. Academic freedom in expensive "open...
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Vanity management (2 of 2)
Although the University and College Union branch at Queen Mary called off its strike in protest against principal Simon Gaskell's metrics-led dismissals and proposed performance management scheme,...
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Percentage error
The major miscalculation in relating student-to-staff ratios to time spent teaching is the use of percentages of time instead of hours ("The lecturers who don't teach (but still count)", News, 6...
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Pre-booked value
Like Iain Stevenson ("Hang the expenses", Opinion, 13 December), I often have multiple reimbursement claims totalling more than four figures. These can be repayments for carrying out a range of...
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You're better than that
I was interested to read about Astrid Wissenburg's move to The Open University ("Now she'll work by her own rules", Research, 29 November). However, I was intrigued by her description of the...
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Date set for 2013 reputation rankings
The 2013 Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings will be released online on Monday 4 March, ahead of their official launch at the British Council’s Going Global conference in Dubai.
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Life of Pi
The once ‘unfilmable’ story of a boy and a tiger stranded together on a lifeboat contains flashes of 3D genius but ultimately proves too tame for Will Brooker
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V-cs, get set to do the maths (and prepare the begging bowl)
As UCL’s new provost is announced, Steven Schwartz considers the challenges facing the sector’s leaders over the next 12 months
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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From Where I Sit - The unkindest cuts
"Nobody wants to come visit us any more." That's what I was told by a lecturer at the University of Athens a few weeks ago. I had deliberately made my way to Athens to see for myself the effects of...
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Campus round-up
Plymouth UniversityGlobal business linksBusiness and finance students will have the opportunity to take part in a cross-Atlantic exchange thanks to a new partnership. Officials from Plymouth...