Scholar wages FoI battle for bank collapse data
An academic is battling to obtain access to Treasury documents relating to past banking failures, five years after he first asked to see the material under the Freedom of Information Act.Prem Sikka,...
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Daytime TV: Overdue exposure
Brian Duffy photographed many faces of the 1960s. Gary Day watches him pick up the camera again
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Rub a dub dub
One of our senior redundancy-package-available academics, Professor Gordon Lapping of the Department of Media and Cultural Studies, has strongly backed the recent plea from the London Mathematical...
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Research intelligence: Trust us, we're on your side
With election day looming, the science policies of Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems were scrutinised by the Campaign for Science and Engineering. Zoë Corbyn weighs up their responses and manifesto...
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Off Piste: Failure to launch
Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? David J. Gunkel mourns the betrayal of his Cold War boyhood's dreams of jetpacks, lunar adventure and the futuristic allure of the metric system
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Leader: Historical lessons are priceless
The heritage industry puts flesh on the past to flog it. History sits less easily on the impact agenda but is vital nonetheless
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From where I sit: Lost without translation
As I approach a new job in a Japanese university, I'm constantly receiving material from the institution in Japanese, including announcements of induction sessions conducted in Japanese. "Well, what...
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Martin Plant, 1946-2010
One of the world's leading experts on addiction has died.
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'Bad' scientist
David Colquhoun has succeeded through scare tactics in getting the University of Buckingham Medical School to withdraw from the diploma in the study of integrated medicine (IM) (“It’s terminal for...
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Political hustings on campus prohibited during purdah
Salford bans debates after selective invitations, writes Melanie Newman
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Epic manned mission home
Kevin Fong takes a road trip across Europe after volcanic ash grounds his plans
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Illusion of quality and trouble with citations 1
Michael Wood's proposal for "The journal of everything" (22 April) suffers from the usual problem of all such proposals: the lack of a credible business plan. He points out the advantages for authors...
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Illusion of quality and trouble with citations 2
Your news report "'Publish or perish' culture distorting research results" (22 April) has clear links with the problem of multiple authorship flagged up by Times Higher Education in "Phone book et al...
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Undeserving causes 1
There has been much comment, as expected, in light of the latest data on vice-chancellors' salaries ("It was fun while it lasted", 1 April). The widening salary differential between vice-chancellors...