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Seats of learning
Graffiti. That’s what’s missing from John Sutherland’s examination of campus lavatorial facilities (“At your convenience”, Features, 18/25 December).“A woman without a man is like a fish without a...
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Editorial expectations
To paraphrase Churchill, “The peer review system is the worst system there is…apart from all the others” (“Slighted by the gatekeepers”, News, 18/25 December).Journal editors need skin as thick as...
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Faith, hope and charity
In Norman Bonney’s letter “Sever support for Kirk” (18/25 December), he proposes that the privileging of Church of Scotland candidates training for ministry in the Scottish universities should end....
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USS: index of anguish
In the debate over the level of the salary cap to be introduced into USS pensions, in which members would receive career revalued benefits (CRB) on up to £50,000 of their salary, little seems to have...
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REF: late crusaders and early adopters
While we the undersigned colleagues of Derek Sayer essentially agree that the research excellence framework is deeply problematic (we think the vast majority of the sector do as well), we are bemused...
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The week in higher education - 8 January 2015
Marina Warner may have railed against the “culture of obedience and deference” in UK universities, but she will soon be the one kneeling before authority. The award-winning scholar, who resigned from...
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REF 2014: who gave best performance?
More than 80 per cent of the physical, medical and life sciences research assessed at UK universities is world-leading or internationally excellent, according to the results of the research...
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Present research clearly to reach policymakers, academic says
Jonathan Shepherd, Cardiff medical scholar and ‘What Works’ pioneer, urges researchers to keep it brief and abandon obfuscation
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How was it for you? REF views coloured by rank, discipline
Study finds variations by seniority, subject and institutional mission in scholars’ published opinions on the research excellence framework
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Some cheats are enterprising, if not moral
Christopher Bigsby on those who take a creative approach to academic rigour
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Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande
A surgeon finds that what empowers terminally ill patients is humane honesty, finds Helen Bynum
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Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock, by Clare Clarke
Sharon Wheeler applauds a rigorous and passionate appraisal of Conan Doyle’s literary contemporaries
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Persons, Animals, Ourselves, by Paul F. Snowdon
Are we primarily biological entities, or embodied consciousnesses? Christopher Belshaw on a fine book examining the arguments
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Rethinking Unemployment and the Work Ethic: Beyond the ‘Quasi-Titmuss’ Paradigm, by Andrew Dunn
A thoughtful study on joblessness has little to say on the most pressing problems, finds Kitty Stewart