Thin on top
Your article on the question of academics with doctorates tells only half the story ("Proportion of academics with PhDs is 'low'", 1 November).There is a growing body of university managers, deans,...
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Life coaching (1 of 2)
Michael Somerton is undoubtedly correct in asserting that "becoming an effective teacher should be seen as a long-term process" ("Qualified expectations", Letters, 8 November). However, this does not...
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Life coaching (2 of 2)
Michael Somerton suggests that becoming an effective teacher ends only "on retirement". Following the suggestion by Vanessa Pupavac, lecturer in international relations at the University of...
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Do tell them, pike
If one is looking for an apt new slogan for the academy ("The new motto for the marketplace: all for one and none for all", 15 November), R.H. Tawney's famous quote from Equality (1931), "Freedom for...
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Measuring up
The letter commenting on university rankings and men's endowment no doubt has been reported favourably by the media in every country ("Bunch of rankers", 11 October). After all, we all want to come...
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Fred flag flying
Regarding "Shiny happy periodicals" (15 November): thank God for Fred Inglis!Susan Powell, Chair of medieval texts and culture, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, University of...
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Scholar finds output written in the stars
Beware online misrepresentation, says academic mistakenly linked to tarot book. Chris Parr reports
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ESRC proposes a whole new way of thinking
ESRC offers grants for ambition
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Three wishes: NUS urges trio of loans to help poor postgraduates
End ‘immoral’ barriers to access on grounds of wealth, union urges. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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Small, medium or large
Is there an optimum size for research labs? Are larger labs more prone to research misconduct and harder to manage? Paul Jump investigates
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Firm footing
Technicians, the academy’s ‘Cinderellas’, play vital roles and deserve proper recognition and support, argue Kelly Vere and Roger Murphy
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McKinsey: rankings ought to show who is on the job
Company’s education leader calls for greater focus on graduate employability. David Matthews reports
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Research intelligence - A shift from tactics to strategy
It’s time for physics to make a big bang, the woman from the ministry tells Elizabeth Gibney
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The week in higher education
• Lord Patten of Barnes, embattled chairman of the BBC Trust and chancellor of the University of Oxford, is under mounting pressure to quit the corporation, The Sun reported on 14 November. The...