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Intellectual propertyBeware of blunt instrumentsChanges in copyright law to allow unfettered data mining are an "unwarranted blunt instrument which will undermine UK publishing", it has been claimed...
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Grant winners
NATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE REPLACEMENT, REFINEMENT AND REDUCTION OF ANIMALS IN RESEARCH - NC3RS3Rs Research Funding Scheme• Award winner: Bertrand Collet• Institution: Marine Scotland Science• Value: £...
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Making it new all over again
As Post-Modernism's star wanes, Andrew Thacker observes, a diverse, multivalent Modernism is drawing fresh scholarly attention
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Diary
EdinburghSinging the ReformationIn the second half of the 16th century, Thomas Wode, a Catholic monk and later Presbyterian minister, left an important legacy in the form of the St Andrews Psalter....
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The Pick - Curtain Call
Credit: www.sdna.tvLeaps of imagination: SDNA's exploration of surreal dreamingCurtain CallThe Roundhouse, LondonThe Roundhouse, a Victorian engine shed that later served as a gin distillery store,...
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Stop going on holiday!
Jamie Targett, our Director of Corporate Affairs, has once again warned that academics who depart from SLERP ("statutory leave email referral protocol") will face disciplinary action.Targett pointed...
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Leader: Hours and hours of reckoning
In higher education, it's not how much time you spend with students, but what you do with it that should count
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Research intelligence - 'We all aspire to universal access'
It's just that it will take a long time to get there, journal publishers' spokesman tells Paul Jump
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US debt deal spares $37bn student aid scheme - for now
But Congress cuts billions from research and graduate loan provisions. Jon Marcus reports
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The week in higher education
• David Willetts, the universities minister, is reputed to have two brains - but will his higher education reforms result in fewer graduates having two kidneys? An academic has suggested that it is...
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From where I sit - Say sayonara to globalisation
I have just received the feedback on my first (unsuccessful) funding application to the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the main Japanese research funding body. My sorry experience...
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Appointments
University of SydneyRosina McAlpine-MladenovicAfter more than 20 years in the job, Rosina McAlpine-Mladenovic is still proud to proclaim that she loves teaching. The associate professor of accounting...
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Too much information
Cutting-edge researchers aren’t necessarily the best teachers, argues Alan Ryan
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Should we laugh at student howlers?
Is the Times Higher Education ‘exam howlers’ competition a bit of harmless fun, or unfair and offensive? Katie Alcock believes the joke is on teachers as well as their students and no one is any the...
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When I grow up, I want to be spoon-fed
Instead of sermonising about the need for more contact hours, ministers should stop infantilising students and listen to what they actually want, argues Paul Ramsden