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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Obama plans to relax limits on academic travel to Cuba
Campaigners claim the ban was introduced for domestic political gain. Jon Marcus reports
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From where I sit - STEMming the rate of decline
Leif Johansson, the chairman of the European Round Table of Industrialists, recently observed that Europe is in danger of being overtaken by China and India economically because of a dearth of...
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Celia Gallagher, 1967-2010
A leading figure in the planning and funding of the Irish university sector has died.Celia Gallagher was born in Donegal on 24 April 1967 and spent her childhood on Arranmore Island.After a first...
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Research intelligence - Reach for the sky
Royal Astronomical Society's new chief calls for farsighted and bold research funding. Paul Jump reports
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Who will speak up for languages?
These are testing and paradoxical times for universities' modern languages departments. A significant number have closed in recent years; others have been hacked to the bone, nearing the point of...
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Wide web of best practice
In your article "Deciphering the code" (19 August) you provided a (somewhat confusing) league table of the best-performing institutional websites as judged by a group of sixth-formers. While the...
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Shining a light on NGOs
Matthew Reisz ("Criticism of universities has provoked a sharp response", 26 August) mischaracterises NGO Monitor.As is clear from our publications and website, NGO Monitor is a highly credible...
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STEM needs more branches
I have been enjoying the articles about STEM in your magazine. When I first saw the acronym, I interpreted it spontaneously as referring to science, technology, English and mathematics, until I...
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Proxy strengths may vary
Phil Baty (World University Rankings column, 19 August) tells us that citations data are "widely accepted as a strong proxy for research quality" and they "will have a high weighting" in the Times...
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Fair winds ahead
The potential for up to 50,000 new jobs in the offshore wind energy sector is welcome news indeed, and it will of course require the necessary skills to fill this tremendous number of opportunities...
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It's discrimination, full stop
Does anyone else find the phrase "reverse discrimination" somewhat offensive and patronising ("A straight case of discrimination? Lawsuits come in all shades for US institutions", 26 August)?...
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Science needs effective PR
Zoë Corbyn's article "Trial by error" (26 August) depressingly restates the same sterile arguments made too many times in the past 30 years. Researcher versus media disagreements will continue until...
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A few home truths
I have been visiting professor at the University of Queensland, Australia, several times in the past few years and have taught in different universities in Europe and elsewhere. I simply do not...