Compare like with like
The commentary and illustrative map "Second degree of separation" (News, 8 November) was drawn from the 2012 Bologna Process Implementation Report. Although interesting, it does not compare like with...
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Stars our destination
I am grateful to Times Higher Education for citing my early work on the impact of the research assessment exercise ("Reach for the stars", 1 November). Two other issues have emerged over the years....
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Pennies from haven
I was shocked to read your article on the proposed boycott of Taylor & Francis Group journals ("Firm chose haven, let's give it hell", News, 1 November). I had always found it to be an excellent...
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Test-subject objections
So the University of Aberdeen has developed a test for schizophrenia that is 98 per cent accurate (Campus round-up, 8 November). Should I be worried if I test positive?Around 1 per cent of the...
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List of hopes and fears
May I add a footnote to Massimo Mazzotti's deeply disturbing article about the new Italian programme for research evaluation? ("Listing wildly", 8 November.) He did not report that under the proposed...
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Dereks get the horns
There is nothing bizarre about the seductive effects of Maurice Ravel's Bolero, but it has little to do with Torvill and Dean's use of it at the 1984 Winter Olympics (The week in higher education, 1...
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Hard line pays dividends (but not hard cash)
Grant awards success rates rise but income falls for some research-intensives. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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Is RCUK's open-access cash a 'reckless' road to ruin?
Senior scientists critical of allocation rules and assumptions behind £100m grant for ‘gold’ fees, writes Paul Jump
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Research intelligence - Technically indispensable
All those without whom: Paul Jump on schemes to recruit, train and accredit unsung heroes of the lab
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education
• It seems not even vice-chancellors are impervious to the worldwide pop sensation that is Gangnam Style - the infectious chart-topping hit from South Korean artist PSY. An internet video of a flash...
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V-c spotting
They may (almost) all be white men in suits but that doesn’t mean that all vice-chancellors are the same, says Jack Grove. So which tribe does your v-c belong to?
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Leader: The self-censor may not hold
New-found restraint over research council applications should be praised but will it survive further funding cuts?
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From Where I Sit - No Act of philistinism
A recent issue of Time magazine was devoted to "Reinventing College". Several full-page advertisements celebrated "Milestones in the History of US Higher Education". Partially funded by the Bill and...
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The Particle at the End of the Universe: The Hunt for the Higgs and the Discovery of a New World
From postulation to discovery: Frank Close weighs up an accessible account of the Higgs boson