Scholar spots risky business in USS investments
The "high-risk" investment strategy pursued by the Universities Superannuation Scheme has been a bigger problem for pensions than rising life expectancy, an academic has claimed.
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Radical treatment? Not radical enough
UCL professor says life sciences strategy doesn't have 'big enough vision'. John Morgan reports
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Commission offers 2020 vision of less red tape and a lot more cash
Plaudits for Framework Programme's simplified and increased funding provision. Paul Jump reports
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Contempt for vocational study is led by the well-to-do, administrators hear
The chair of the University of Sussex's council has issued a staunch defence of courses derided as "Mickey Mouse" degrees.
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Research fundingDon't 'micromanage', says NurseFunders should avoid "micromanaging" research and requiring applicants to set out the impact of their proposals, according to the president of the Royal...
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Do you feel lucky? Google Books is at heart a catalogue of errors
Scholar highlights flawed metadata in the world's largest digital library. Matthew Reisz writes
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An impoverished relation
The 'core-and-margin' policy will cost colleges dear - another unforeseen result of coalition plans, says Philip Davies
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Offa's strikes against bursaries not work of fair-access champion
Wes Streeting argues that a truly independent watchdog would back upfront cash for low-income students, not 'fee waivers' for the state
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Control. Halt. Delete
Soul-crushing email causes stress and slows work. Oliver Double proposes some ways to cut the burden. Email-free Friday, anyone?
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Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentives
A reductive approach to social behaviour is bad news for democracy, James Garvey writes
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American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox
The tale of modern psychiatry's founder dominates this story of changing diagnoses, David Healy finds
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Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor: Sex Work and the Law in India
In the course of my research on 19th-century politics of prostitution, I was shocked to learn in detail about the miserable lives of prostitutes who served the soldiers of the British Army in India....
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The Poet's Freedom: A Notebook on Making
The Poet's Freedom is an ambitious book that ranges widely through Western philosophy and literature, making liberal mention of Plato, Aristotle, Homer, Kant, Coleridge, Marx and Hegel, and quoting...
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In the Basement of the Ivory Tower: Confessions of an Accidental Academic
A pessimist's insights point to the future woes of the market-driven academy, Professor Y finds
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The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began
Renaissance writers knew the seductive power of swerving. John Milton, in The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649), sensed the English people baulking at the killing of the king: "Another sort......