Research Intelligence - Alt-metrics: fairer, faster impact data?
Scholars unhappy with 'crude' journal metrics are looking to Mendeley and its ilk. Paul Jump reports
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Off Piste - Vicious cycle
With cycling enjoying huge popularity after the successes of Bradley Wiggins and other Olympians, Thomas Docherty explores how the pain, endurance and concentration demanded by the sport’s premier...
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From where I sit - Model resistance
Since February, tens of thousands of Quebec students have been on strike against tuition increases that will raise their fees by 82 per cent over seven years. The strike has been so successful that...
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Faking it
A renowned immunologist whose life was turned upside down when it emerged that one of his postdoctoral researchers had falsified experimental results tells Paul Jump that the sector needs a culture...
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How To Be Gay
Almost despite himself, Ken Plummer is beguiled by an eloquent elegy for queerdom’s camp old days
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23 August 2012
Sold a lemon - The sour taste of research fraud - and what universities can do about it
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Over there
Alan Ryan on the benefits of emigration for the UK’s huddled student masses
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The week in higher education
• David Willetts, the universities and science minister, ushered in A-level results and clearing by calling for elite universities such as Oxford and Cambridge to expand. In comments reported by The...
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Leader: Clarity begins at home
Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and the UK's institutions and researchers must be fearless in shining a light on misconduct
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Odds and quads
These pictures of women - one wearing a blue silk headdress, the other displaying her gold engagement jewellery and hennaed hands - were taken in rural Turkey in the 1980s.
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Scottish students get further support from Holyrood
The Scottish government has unveiled a package of extra financial support for students.
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THE World University Rankings 2012-13 publication date revealed
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2012-13 will be published on Wednesday 3 October, it was confirmed this week.
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Universities in ‘panic’ over student recruitment, claims marketing consultant
Universities are facing a “student recruitment crisis” in clearing and some are 2,000 short of their number targets, according to a marketing consultancy.