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Scientists are harnessing the public's power, but they could go further: a partnership would yield academic and political results
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Research intelligence - Poacher who rather enjoys gamekeeping
Douglas Kell was a whizz at landing grants. Now he is the one handing them out. Paul Jump reports
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The week in higher education
• Sir Alex Ferguson has received an honorary University of Manchester doctorate to mark his 25 years as manager of Manchester United. Rod Coombs, deputy vice-chancellor, said on 13 October that...
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From where I sit - Strike action and inaction
Looking from outside, one might expect that Nigeria, a country of more than 150 million people and endowed with oil reserves, independent from the UK since 1960, would have an educational system that...
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Appointments
Teesside UniversityPaul CrawshawAn academic who analyses risk and uncertainty - from the earthquake in Japan to what we eat and drink - has been appointed director of Teesside University's Social...
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Tribal language
Words of division won’t put the UK together again, argues Malcolm Gillies
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Powered by the people
Independent 'citizen scientists' have always existed, says Darrel Ince, and our networked age of fast computing and open access is helping them to flourish - to the greater good of research
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Ionic, isn't it?
Academics from physicists to experts on Scandinavian culture are crafting stand-up comedy routines based on their work. But this is no joke. Matthew Reisz finds that a crowd's laughter is not the...
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Serfs up, bring down quasi-feudal practices (1 of 2)
What an extraordinary, scarcely believable world we live in when a "senior academic" feels the need to remain anonymous when blowing the whistle on vice-chancellors' increasingly bizarre behaviour...
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Serfs up, bring down quasi-feudal practices (2 of 2)
I read "The madness of kings" on long-serving vice-chancellors becoming power crazed with great interest. Our v-c, Tim Wheeler, is one of the UK's longest-serving university leaders, but I do not...
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Powers and pretence
Even after all this time, one still wonders whether ministers realise the risks their so-called "higher education reforms" are taking with our international reputation for quality."For sale:...
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Quick cuts will bleed Greece
The debt crisis demands deep reforms by the Greek government. What it doesn't require is a ham-fisted insistence on public expenditure cuts that will stifle future prospects for recovery.I write as...
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We want to talk; do they?
Your headline "Pension action plans threaten NUS-UCU alliance" (13 October) is a little more exciting than the story itself. Liam Burns, president of the National Union of Students, highlights the...
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Blessed unions
What a refreshing and encouraging article by Janet Beer and Avril Horner on collaborative research ("A winning pair", 6 October). Although I am from the other end of the disciplinary spectrum - an...
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Tariff points
Times Higher Education's coverage of the report on the plagiarism reference tariff was titled "Stock plagiarism penalties don't always fit the crime" (13 October). However, the facts do not...