Bias? Clue's in the question
London-based institutions perform poorly in your Student Experience Survey ("Taking everything into consideration", 17 February). St George's, University of London does best (th); next is Royal...
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Contextual caveats
Christine Buccella's feature, "The pursuit of hire education" (24 February), was a lucid reminder that students have a wealth of information available to them as they make their university choices -...
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Invisible hand is empty
Tim Leunig's claim in "Quit the quotas: only competitive tension will keep fees down" (17 February) that more competition almost always brings prices down is contradicted by the history of mis-...
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PhD: D is for discrimination
The decision by City University London and Birkbeck, University of London to make PhDs a standard job requirement ("Doctor yes: the rise and rise of PhDs as standard", 17 February) may well amount to...
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Impact factors
With the disappearance of most public money for teaching in the humanities, there is no reason to maintain the Chinese wall between funding for research and teaching. Accordingly, "impact" should be...
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Men's hour (again)
I recently conducted research on the gender make-up of the panels announced for the research excellence framework. The methodology employed was counting (I'm not very good at it, so the results...
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Swansong for ugly duckling
Rather than giving me the bird with mixed metaphors on cuckoos and swallows (Letters, 24 February), Douglas Kell, a research council chief executive officer, might reflect on why Ken Seddon, the UK's...
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Vocational support
Geoff Smith asks about the difference between a salary and a stipend (Letters, 24 February). It is subtle but significant. A salary is payment for work done, whereas a stipend is payment to support...
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Odds and quads
This watercolour of the medical kit owned by the great Victorian missionary and explorer David Livingstone (1813-73) was painted shortly after his death in what is now Zambia.
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Research intelligence - Message from our sponsor: time to 'shape' UK research
Budget restrictions mean the EPSRC has to prioritise, its chief tells Paul Jump
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From where I sit - Fine words and a handful of dust
"Philip and I will be able to give you more granularity if you want." No, this was not the Queen speaking.For one thing, she would perhaps have said "We and Philip", and I certainly hope she would...
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Campus round-up
University of WarwickPlaces of powerAn international research project investigating centres of world influence is to be led by an English university that has been awarded EUR8 million (£6.8 million)...
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The Week in Higher Education
Aaron Porter has been accused of errors of judgement as president of the National Union of Students, but after announcing that he is to stand down, it seems he has made one more mistake: giving an...
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Itching to impress
Kevin Fong decides to not make a meal of a life-threatening situation