Stern might change the rules, but the REF game is still a game
Kirsty Rolfe says the portability proposal does nothing to ease the fears and worries of young researchers struggling to start careers
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What lurks in ageing academicsā unvisited personal archives?
As he bins decades-old lecture notes, Ron Iphofen wonders what unused but undiscarded relics populate scholarsā shelves, discs and drives
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Grant winners ā 11 August 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Fifty shades of red: a scholarās professional and private lives collide
An embarrassing incident led academic and sex blogger Katie Beswick to reflect on the risks and rewards of being open online
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You can never go home again
Ryan Cooganās eloquent description of the alienating experiences of returning to his home working-class community in Salford after progressing from undergraduate to PhD study made long-healed scars...
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Credit union
I have a hard time seeing how Lord Sternās review of the research excellence framework doesnāt just create a new set of rules to be gamed, with power having largely been shifted from individuals to...
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Business class
Henry Jinman is correct to highlight the major limitations of basing entrepreneurship education around the development of a business plan (āEnterprise courses in HE āreluctantā to give real-world...
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Glocal authority
I was surprised to see Tara Brabazon argue that āthe word āglocalā should be avoided in academic writing on pain of death and/or watching looped episodes of Keeping Up with the Kardashiansā (ā...
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Sun, sea and student visas
Easing student visa rules at just four selective universities is a failure to see internationalism as a post-Brexit force for good
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Access research ādefending spending, not improving outreachā
Call for access agreements to draw on more sophisticated evaluation and analysis
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University of Washington presidentās personal mission to tackle prejudice
Ana Mari Cauce, who is Cuban-American and gay, aims to improve race and identity relations on campus
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Texas challenge against bid to keep guns out of professorsā offices
Pro-gun group tries to block policy allowing concealed weapons ban in offices