Accounting tricks and pension deficits
We have been told that the Universities Superannuation Scheme's deficit has grown so large in the past year as to threaten its survival ("Deficit puts pension scheme in jeopardy", News, 13 September...
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Peer and present dangers (1 of 3)
I agree entirely with Stephen Mumford's timely critique of the peer-review process for academic journals and the system's lack of transparency ("Peer pressure", Opinion, 13 September).I have been...
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Peer and present dangers (2 of 3)
"Peer pressure" struck a chord with me. While colleagues in the academy increasingly find themselves with diverse and complex workloads to manage, professionalism and respect for peers should...
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Peer and present dangers (3 of 3)
Editors and publishers do take steps to drop reviewers who are abusive, inaccurate or cursory in their work. However, we are often faced with the fact that almost any review is better than nothing....
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Ends and meanings (1 of 2)
The trouble with Martin Willis' admirable feature "Curiosity knows no bounds" (13 September) is that there is a flaw at the heart of his argument. Yes, the sciences and humanities share a motivation...
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Ends and meanings (2 of 2)
Martin Willis' defence of the humanities in the face of the current political bias towards the sciences was eloquent, impassioned and timely. I was puzzled, though, by his stated regret that the...
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Bang for our bucks
Roger Brown ("Inequality? You ain't seen nothing yet", Letters, 30 August) identifies Edge Hill University as the worst funded higher education institution in the UK. There are specific reasons for...
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Ill-judged final word
Helen Sword's piece on academics writing for a wider audience ("Narrative trust", 6 September) omitted to mention some of the pitfalls.For example, the more carefully written a piece is, the more...
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Janet Altman, 1955-2012
A leading conference interpreter who went on to play a crucial role in the training of new generations of interpreters has died.Janet Altman was born in Manchester on 31 March 1955 and then moved to...
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Campus round-up
University of BathTo beat diabetes, sprintCouch potatoes are being sought to take part in research into Type 2 diabetes. Researchers at the University of Bath have shown that performing a couple of...
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London's distance learning division joins Coursera
The University of London has become the first higher education institution in England to offer courses via US-based online learning platform Coursera.
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Don't get mad, get even
"Instead of adding to the overall footprint we are looking at the whole envelope of estate in terms of its conditionality."
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Formal investigation launched into work at dean's lab
Cardiff University has confirmed that it is to launch a formal investigation into alleged research misconduct in the laboratory of its dean of medicine.
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Private dental school launched with Buckingham
The UK's first private dental school has been launched in conjunction with an independent university.