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We'll always be here for you
US universities are offering alumni new levels of professional and intellectual support in an effort to build lifelong relationships that pay long-term benefits. Jon Marcus reports
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The week in higher education
• Top marks to zoology researchers at the University of Oxford for their canny PR. Finding a new species of crab on the ocean floor near Antarctica would not normally win newspaper column inches nor...
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From where I sit - Creative accounting
How do you teach the humanities to MBA students without them demanding a refund on their tuition fees? And, at a time when the humanities are under threat at many universities, what is the value of...
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Appointments
University of Texas at AustinAndy EllingtonA researcher has won a major grant to develop a simple paper-based test for drug-resistant tuberculosis. Andy Ellington, who is Wilson and Kathryn Fraser...
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Warming to life in the hot zone
That people should be moved out of a former nuclear test site seemed a no-brainer. But spending time with those affected led two researchers to revise their views. David Mould reports
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Share and save alike
Malcolm Gillies on the benefits of collaboration in the wake of VAT reform
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A careless reference can do more damage than sticks and stones
Athene Donald warns referees about the unintended and potentially career-damaging effects of using certain words to describe women
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We're London Met, not 'EasyMet'
Marketing implores us to be "Proud to be London Met" - but now our vice-chancellor says that up to 50 per cent of our support services staff are "Not allowed to be London Met".We were staggered by...
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REF isn't blind to reality (1 of 2)
Miles Hewstone seems to think that the purpose of the research excellence framework is to produce a UK academic league table, whereas in fact it is an exercise in funding allocation and therefore...
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REF isn't blind to reality (2 of 2)
Excluding Greece from an assessment of the European Union economy, Heurelho Gomes from an evaluation of Tottenham Hotspur or poor performing companies from a trust portfolio appraisal is...
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Credit rating complexities
Much is made of a possible analogy between the case of Jules Hoffmann and Bruno Lemaitre and that of Selman Waksman and Albert Schatz ("Did Hoffmann take the Nobel for the team?", 22/29 December)....
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Firm blow in title fight
On 4 January, David Willetts "invited proposals for new types of university with a focus on science and technology and on postgraduates".This plan to allow what seem to be free-standing research...
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Keen oversight
I was reading your article on the University of Wales and its validation activities ("Boom and bust", 5 January) when my eye was drawn to a reference to the British Accreditation Council. I'd like to...
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Missing missions
Even though our economy is a small fraction of that of the US, the budgets of the National Science Foundation and Research Councils UK were more or less equal ($6 billion and £3 billion) as little as...