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From where I sit - School sets a management lesson
Call me a hopeless romantic, but I believe universities should have just two functions: to teach students and to conduct research.They should not be places with whole departments of staff managing...
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Our Vice-Chancellor's New Year Message
As we reach this momentous moment, many of you (although by no means all of you) can look back upon 2008 with a real sense of pride. It was a year in which the RAE results confirmed Poppleton's...
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No new year cheer here
Alan Ryan declares "Bah, Humbug!" to resolutions for university funding
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Research intelligence - Log on to a global laboratory
Web 2.0 tools allow researchers to share ideas, data and results. Sarah Collinson and Zoe Corbyn report
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Off Piste: Youth is never wasted on the young
Leslie Gofton recalls swapping words, if not licks, with Jimi Hendrix, and argues that a misspent adulthood is a much greater waste than ill-spent adolescence
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Leader: Seek out the silver linings
The struggle for economic recovery will present the sector with opportunities - it must seize them and put them to good use
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David John Keskeys, 1953-2008
David Keskeys, dean of the School of the Arts at the University of Northampton, has died.He was born in Germany on 8 February 1953. After a foundation course at Medway College of Design, he moved to...
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Seeking an equitable measure for the RAE 1
Researchers all over the country have now found out the results of the 2008 research assessment exercise ("RAE 2008: the results", 18 December). For some, it is a moment of joy, but for others, it is...
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Seeking an equitable measure for the RAE 2
The curse of the 4* category in the RAE has inevitably struck. In my own institution, an excellent department rated in the top category last time round had four times less "world-class" ratings than...
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Santa subject to debate
Thank you for bringing to our attention the ten most cited papers on Santa Claus research ("Santa Claus research: the ten most cited papers", 18 December). While several of these pre-date by many...
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Tailored targeting
Small wonder that the success of Aimhigher is not evenly distributed ("Aimhigher's success unevenly distributed", 11 December), since levels of participation in higher education vary widely between...
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Time-and-motion study
With 30 hours of preparation ("A matter of opinions", 11 December) for each of the 550 hours of teaching a lecturer at a post-1992 university is contracted to do, Tara Brabazon must be multitasking...
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Supervising the supervisors 1
In "Rapid results culture undermines quality" (Letters, 11 December), the anonymous writer describes his/her unfortunate experience of being the external examiner for a PhD thesis that "... was not a...
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Supervising the supervisors 2
Something that I do not understand, and that no one has been able to confirm or explain to me despite calls to several universities, is the difference between the different kinds of doctorates, for...