Unpredictable results
Douglas Kell, chief executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, was quoted in Times Higher Education as saying: "If I went to the Treasury and said: 'We aren't going to...
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Nurturing exploitation (1 of 2)
As a recently retired editor of an academic journal, I would like to take issue with Graham Taylor's defence of the role of publishers in the scholarly communication process ("A footnote? Far from it...
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Nurturing exploitation (2 of 2)
In recent months there has been much debate in the press on the issue of academic publishing, mostly either criticising publishers for monopolistic profit-making or pushing for an increase in "green...
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Scholarship out of reach
For the past two years I have been writing a history of Georgia. The task has been made much harder by the removal from the School of Oriental and African Studies Library to totally inaccessible...
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Familiar knowing look
Many academics accept some kind of a social constructivist model of knowledge and conduct qualitative research. Given that this is premised on the axiom that knowledge does not exist independently of...
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Unequal and unaddressed
Carole Leathwood paints a depressing picture, not only of the lack of gender equality in the academy, but also (and probably worse) the lack of any real progress towards achieving it ("Still a...
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Nine letters, 'much needed'
Since John Kentleton asks for a return of THE's competition to identify books by their first and last lines ("Alpha and omega again", Letters, 20 October), could I please request something I have...
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Film review: The Silence
The emptiness of the landscape reflects the bleak heart of a new German thriller, says Philip Dodd
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TV reviews: Colouring Light: Brain Clarke - An Artist Apart & Faster than the Speed of Light?
Experiments with light can astound and delight us aesthetically and intellectually, says Gary Day
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Mike Smith, 1945-2011
A "hugely respected" academic administrator with a pan-European outlook has died.Mike Smith was born in London on 16 February 1945 and educated at the University of Cambridge and the London School of...
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Campus round-up
University of ReadingRough guide to rough tradesThose who want to learn more about the work of City traders are being offered a three-day introductory course on the subject by a university business...
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Odds and quads
Most stained-glass windows feature scenes from the Bible or the lives of saints.
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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27 October 2011
Dumbstruck - The challenge of teaching in a blinkered and self-centred culture