Are blue skies back for Canada’s scientists?
Science suffered restrictions and reductions in funding under the previous government. Will the Trudeau administration put it back on track? Ellie Bothwell investigates
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Grant winners – 7 January 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Scholarly book reviewing: time for a plot twist
We need to wake up and defend this vital practice, not sleepwalk to an unhappy ending, says Lars Fischer
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Curiosity is an inextinguishable creative spark
Not even today’s box-ticking managerialists can stamp out our innate desire to know, says Joe Moran
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Move to metrics may not bring significant savings to REF bill
Another review of the exercise is a chance to revise details of the costs, says Jonathan Grant
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Hunting the wrong witch
The recent resignation of Bob Lambert, a former undercover police officer turned academic, from his two posts at the University of St Andrews and London Metropolitan University after a pressure...
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Tech savvy
For those of us who deal with instructional technology and educational research, the argument in support of technology for its own sake is flawed (“Future perfect: what will universities look like in...
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Spanish supposition
Jamie Martin’s pro-Brexit piece made me cringe at the contradictory nature of the arguments proposed (“Academics must face EU’s ‘inconvenient truth’ ”, Opinion, 24/31 December). While the European...
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Fifty-year admission
The more the mechanism of the myth-laden selection process at the University of Oxford is revealed (“Alan Rusbridger: lifting the lid on Oxford admissions”, 21 December), the more one is inclined to...
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Laurie Taylor – 7 January 2016
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