Oxford consults on 'associate professor' grade
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Loughborough faces QAA criticism
University’s provision in collaboration with overseas partners ‘requires improvement’, report states
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Jury's out on trial by ideological ordeal
Gary Thomas joins the growing body of sceptics who are, like us, fundamentally challenging the fashionable positivistic totem that is the randomised controlled trial, both in terms of its alleged...
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Separate and unequal
Malcolm Gillies could not be more mistaken (“Independence pays”, Opinion, 31 January): we need only look at the US Ivy League and our own “public” schools to see the damage that such elitism does. In...
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Flawed psychology
Stephen Gibson acknowledges that there may be a “train wreck looming” for one subfield of social psychology but not for the field more generally (“This is bigger than social psychology”, Letters, 24...
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Open and shut enquiries
Your recent coverage of open access has attracted a good deal of comment, not always well informed, on the arts and humanities realities (“High price of gold: how early career researchers will suffer...
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No blame attached
Regarding Anthony Wilkes’ response to my work on the black and minority ethnic attainment gap (“Blaming the victims”, Letters, 7 February): I need to clarify that my research does not “blame” BME...
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Still looking for Richard
Strangely, Laurie Taylor did not mention the research excellence framework impact arising from Poppleton University’s discovery of Boudicca (“Waking the dead”, The Poppletonian, 7 February): after...
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Tigger release
Robert Appelbaum discusses the perils of introducing conference speakers (“Present harms”, From Where I Sit, 7 February), but a choice introduction can - wittingly or otherwise - help to shape the...
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Ucas withholds 2013-14 application data
NUS says decision shows ‘market is at heart of system’
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RAB rise spells trouble for sector, critics warn
Hepi director predicts more cuts over higher student loan costs
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Chinese assets and liabilities for Hong Kong ‘hub’ plans
Global push complicated by mainland links
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Germany’s Research Rating will make quality its own reward
New assessment scheme will not be used to direct cash to institutions
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Foreign tongues aren't wagging
British Academy issues warning over future of language study in UK
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Campus round-up
Source: AlamyLet’s stay together - take the bins outDid you wake up this Valentine’s Day morning to a dozen red roses and breakfast in bed? If not, don’t worry: romantic gestures are not that...