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  1. Companies Act 2006: The New Law

    Another account of the changes brought in by the Companies Act 2006. The background to the new law is briefly discussed and there is a limited analysis of the new provisions. The full text of the Act...

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  2. Time to recognise administrators' skills 1

    Last week's front cover grabbed my attention, as I thought that it would be on the long-standing difficult dynamic between academics and university administrators. But when I turned to the cover...

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  3. Time to recognise administrators' skills 2

    I don't complain about being taken out of context ... but my obnoxious views about businesspeople were uttered in the context of governance, not management. Persons from business backgrounds have...

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  4. Dumbing down: hit or myth? 1

    Most of us will have found the article on student illiteracy ("The kids aren't all write", 21 February) uncontroversial and will have identified with its sentiments and the experience it expresses....

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  5. Dumbing down: hit or myth? 2

    Why the secrecy of the unnamed writer at the unknown university? We academics are in the business of evidence-based research and need to know whether the literacy of students has declined or not and...

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  6. The metrics of metrics 1

    Critics of the Cranfield study of correlations between 2001 research assessment exercise scores and citation counts (Letters, 21 February) ignore two important points. The first is that a metric...

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  7. The metrics of metrics 2

    Replacing the current RAE with citation counting is quick, cheap and simple. But only if whole universities are evaluated, instead of specialist cost centres.In a paper published in Science and...

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  8. Homegrown philanthropy

    We owe the North Americans a huge amount for their enthusiasm, drive and willingness to promote university fundraising as a noble cause ("The art of asking", 21 February). But it would be wrong to...

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  9. Digesting the news

    The new format of Times Higher Education is certainly saving me a lot of time. Without even opening it, I can read The Poppletonian and then check the index to find the page or two that I have to...

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  10. The missing link

    By linking radical changes we are making in the organisation and management of our university with the very welcome recruitment of Gill Nicholls as our new pro vice-chancellor academic ("Salford's...

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  11. Onomastic revelations

    I have long considered the apparent conjunction of individuals' surnames and their occupations unworthy of comment. But having just read the list of Russell Group heads ("League table sizes up v-cs'...

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  12. Short-sighted shrift

    The proposals to cut courses and jobs at Keele University are short sighted and will have a disproportionate effect on students from non-traditional backgrounds. ("Restructuring round-up", 21...

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  13. A penny for your thoughts

    Academics are at the very heart of the knowledge economy, but just how far should they and their institutions go in the commercial exploitation of their ideas? Hannah Fearn explores the potential...

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  14. Threads that twist and tangle

    Are students' disparaging comments online just harmless gossip or defamatory remarks that can tarnish universities and academics? Hannah Fearn teases out the strands

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  15. A tainted saviour?

    Despite saving the lives of nearly 2,000 fellow Jews in wartime Hungary, Rezso Kasztner was vilified and ultimately assassinated in postwar Israel. Academic Ladislaus Lob was one of the boys Kasztner...

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