Beat 'fluffy' race advice
Toolkit aims to help tutors understand new law and to be sensitive to students' cultural values. Olga Wojtas reports A practical guide to help lecturers steer through a potential minefield of...
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Web pilot to boost prestige
Academics at Brunel University could see their reputations enhanced with increased citation rates for their research papers under a new scheme to archive all their work online. John Murtagh, project...
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Who in who's out
ROYAL HOLLOWAY Much of Sandra Halperin's work in her role as professor of international relations at Royal Holloway, University of London, involves global change and conflict. She joins just as the...
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Laurie Taylor Column
VICE-CHANCELLOR'S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE Dear Colleagues, Once again, it is Christmas and, once again, it is time for me to thank you all for your support during the past year. Once again, this has been a...
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto
In what used to be my favourite episode of The Simpsons , Moe, the bartender at Homer's sordid, beer-swilling local dive, makes an epiphanic journey back to his alma mater. At Swigmore College he...
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Leader: Can academics be entirely free?
Who could object to a statement of principle in support of academic freedom? Surely here lies the ultimate "motherhood and apple pie" topic of university life, and the only surprise is that anyone...
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Leader: Learn from Cambridge
At least the academics' verdict on Oxford University governance was decisive. Even the strongest supporters of the ill-fated reform proposals would not have wanted a narrow victory in this week's...
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Age is not the issue - ageism is 1
The claim that a generation gap is opening up between young academics "who embrace a performance culture" and their older colleagues ("Young guns ditch old values", December 15) does not accord with...
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Age is not the issue - ageism is 2
I recognise much of what was written in your lead story (December 15), although my own experience is that it is less age-specific and more to do with career ambitions. I have many remarkable young...
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Age is not the issue - ageism is 3
Olivia Besly, human resources manager of a proudly "age-positive" institution (Working Knowledge, December 8), counsels against rejecting a balding job applicant on the assumption that he will retire...
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Age is not the issue - ageism is 4
The entry criteria for universities should not include a minimum or maximum age. One cannot assume that a person under 18 years lacks the academic and personal maturity required to undertake a degree...
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Words, not numbers 1
In claiming that citation counting is unlikely to deliver, Ole Petersen (Opinion, December 15) overlooks a point missed by many. Yes, citation counting can be an unreliable way to judge an individual...
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Words, not numbers 2
If only the cartoon that accompanied Ole Petersen's article were accurate. You show a scientist standing on top of what appears to be a pile of books. But books don't cut the mustard in the research...
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Words, not numbers 3
As a Canadian legal scholar responsible for promoting and evaluating research, I note that any plan to evaluate scholarship on the basis of "research income, postgraduate numbers and bibliometrics"...