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He's in the money!
Yes, it's hippity-hop-hurrah for this year's Easter bunny - our very own vice-chancellor, seen here celebrating his record-breaking third place in the newly published league table of vice-chancellors...
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Jumping through hoops
Alan Ryan on the US academy's annual lotteries, both scholarly and athletic
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Research intelligence: Now what have we here?
The police want more research into fighting crime to reach frontline officers and practices. Zoë Corbyn reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Off piste: Persistence pays...
...or, why cars have speedometers. 'Persistent violator' Lou Marinoff on nirvana in the fast lane, governmental highway robbery and the dazzlingly effective absent-minded-professor defence
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Leader: Like pay, the stakes are rising
The importance of balancing reward and responsibility is highlighted by the sums paid out when things go wrong at the top
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From where I sit: Ant music from a lost tribe
In early March, the day before the annual meeting of the National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Committee, three CPPCC representatives paid a visit to Tangjialing, a...
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Bernard Gay, 1921-2010
A painter who helped to steer the major transformations of post-war British arts education has died.Bernard Gay was born in Exmouth on 11 April 1921 and left school at the age of 14 to join the...
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Admin 'elementals' are a distinct breed 1
Your editorial was right to emphasise the huge amount of support that academics receive from departmental and university administrative teams ("Accidental, but also elemental", 25 March). All British...
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Admin 'elementals' are a distinct breed 2
As one of the "accidental administrators" referred to in "Career strategies" (25 March), perhaps I am fated to agree with many of the sentiments at its core. But I am more uneasy with the article's...
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Scotland the cowed
"The silenced saltire", Tom Gallagher's analysis of Scotland's political culture, is spot on (25 March). Devolution promised a more open, democratic and accountable society, but despite some...
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Password protection
Institution-specific passwords for online access to scholarly journals are neither technologically necessary nor financially defensible. They blatantly undermine university researchers' traditional...
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Public proof
"Engage the selfish gene" (18 March), which discussed how public engagement can boost research careers, referred to "the lack of quantitative data on the topic".In fact, there have been two...
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Blameless performance
On behalf of the board of management at the Kingston City Group (KCG) consortium, I write to correct some misunderstandings that appear to have arisen with respect to our part in the concerns at...