Tackle research fraud with ‘fear factor’: psychiatrist
Reassure junior researchers but make senior scientists know they’re being watched, scholar argues
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An early modern feminist
Liz Schafer explores why the work of the playwright Elizabeth Cary has been so marginalised
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China’s polite society
Austin Williams on eager-to-please students fired by a passion for knowledge
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6 June 2013
Full-time vocation - The university working week: from before sunrise to after sunset
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Nightmare before ‘Christmas Lecture’
Royal Institution provokes online backlash over decision to trademark title
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The week in higher education - 6 June 2013
Leeds Metropolitan University endured a hostile reception after revealing plans to change its name. After deciding that it has “outgrown” its Met tag, the university’s options for new names are Leeds...
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Split system on public-private lines, says University Alliance
Parallel sectors would overcome problems of ‘one-size-fits-all’ funding, group argues
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Students still unsure what constitutes cheating
Europe-wide survey shows students don’t understand plagiarism
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Title adaptation
Simon Underdown notes in his enthusiastic review of Peter J. Bowler’s Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World without Darwin (Books, 9 May) the author’s conclusion that without Charles, “the Darwin-themed...
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Lose face, use voices
I too have witnessed perverse university appointment decisions (“No one should be hired on the basis of whether their face fits”, Opinion, 23 May). At one institution in south-east England, there...
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Better than cure
Regarding “Race discrimination in academia ‘has not improved’ over past 20 years” (News, 11 April). Despite the many steps taken to promote equality and diversity in the sector, no major improvements...
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Making a hashtag of it
Times Higher Education recently encouraged responses to its cover feature “My student nemesis” (16 May) with a Twitter hashtag, #myworststudent. Having dropped some Twitter clangers in my time, I...
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Tested to destruction
Drawing on personal experience, Adrian Furnham expresses concern over what he sees as peer-review “nightmares” and the “arbitrariness of journal decision-making” (“Take the rough with the smooth”,...
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Learn from mistakes to get treatment right
“Unwanted side-effects” (30 May) is a thoughtful and balanced account of the issues arising from our research on mass drug administration programmes for neglected tropical diseases, but there is one...
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Outdoor lavatory becomes natural history laboratory
Spiders star in scholar’s photographic study