Carrots and parsnips: shock new evidence
In what is being described as "a dramatic breakthrough", a research team led by our Deputy Head of Neuroscience, Dr E.G. Pataglig, has established that there is no measurable cognitive difference...
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Wrong kind of mice force research retraction
Lab laments after order mix-up leaves it no choice but to retract journal paper. Paul Jump writes
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Leader: Cool heads must keep heat down
The kettling tactic meant to keep a lid on student protest may have done the opposite. Is academic anger next to reach a boil?
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Research intelligence - More concentration needed
David Colquhoun tells Paul Jump that the only way to maximise UK potential is to restrict research to an elite circle
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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
Student protesters should not expect police officers who oversee their "silly demonstrations" to contribute through taxes for "bone-idle, bourgeois softies to stay in bed all day playing video games...
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From where I sit - National cuts call for joint action
There is no doubt that the funding cuts that are about to hit the UK higher education sector are deep and worrying. But that sector is not alone in Europe in facing a bleaker financial future.In the...
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Morris L. Cohen, 1927-2010
A lawyer turned academic librarian with "a great sense of puckish humour", Morris L. Cohen directed some of the US' most prestigious law libraries during his career.Born in New York on 2 November 19...
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The cruellest cut of all
Kevin Fong ponders the pleasures and pains of science broadcasting
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Journal rankings do not recognise quality (1 of 2)
The letter by the editors of the Association of Business Schools' Academic Journal Quality Guide ("Journal rankings help define, not distort", 6 January) in response to the opinion piece by Dennis...
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Journal rankings do not recognise quality (2 of 2)
As a struggling "new researcher" who has been encouraged by an experienced academic like Dennis Tourish (Letters, 13 January), I support his sentiments about the tyranny of journal rankings.Here is a...
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Distinct opportunity
In Phil Baty's leading article "Missions trail leads to success" (13 January), the case for diversification and differentiation was made strongly with the warning: "Universities that fail to...
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Reality? No, it's rhetoric
Your feature "Contravene or intervene?" (6 January) gives an insightful overview of the complex problems that universities face in dealing with extremism and the potential terrorist "radicalisation"...
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Tyranny and equality
Felipe Fernández-Armesto suggests that Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez, is "wasting" the country's resources ("Lack of laughter is no joke", 6 January). Research by the Organisation for Economic...
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Priceless humanities
The government is asking a generation of students to regard university study as a financial investment. Tuition fees of £9,000 a year are, apparently, an acceptable price to pay for a better - read...