Grant winners – 24 September 2015
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Words fail us: university marketing-speak
A Russell Group tagline rap is further proof that we need to reform the academy’s approach, argues Philip Moriarty
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Why experiment with UK science funding?
Naomi Weir urges caution in the face of plans to reform an efficient research funding system
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Delegates seen but not heard
The Higher Education Funding Council for England is consulting on proposals to change the system of quality assessment (“Hefce role under review as Johnson seeks ‘cheap and simple’ regulation”, News...
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Leave of care
I note not a single comment from an academic taking leave to spend time with their children in the feature about summer holidays (“Lazy, hazy, crazy days”, Features, 17 September). The smug “look how...
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Closing time
The Open University is proposing to close its regional offices in Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Gateshead, Leeds, London and Oxford (“Open University set to shut seven regional centres”, 15...
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Positively buoyant
The picture painted by your story “Are overseas campus leaders out of their depth?” (News, 10 September) is not one that we recognise at the University of Nottingham. Indeed, it is very far from our...
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Laurie Taylor – 24 September 2015
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Open access fees hike universities’ journal bills
This graphic shows the cost of journal subscriptions to seven of the most popular publishers for 24 UK universities in 2014
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Cut from a different cloth
In an age of extroverts, a scholar’s paean to shyness and Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘radio phone-in’ PMQs tack against the prevailing winds