Research Intelligence: Is it worth it in the long run?
Research council plans to track outcomes for ten years are receiving a mixed reaction, says Zoe Corbyn
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Leader: The trust deficit's heavy toll
The recession and a succession of government cuts and blunders have robbed young people of their future and of hope
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From where I sit: Dashed hope brings ill wind
Recently, my co-citizens in Massachusetts elected an undistinguished Republican candidate (and centrefold model) to replace the departed brilliant politician and Democratic icon Ted Kennedy as...
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Tony Dewberry, 1950-2010
A recently retired deputy vice-chancellor at Bath Spa University, who was responsible for tailoring its historic campuses to the needs of a modern university, has died.Tony Dewberry was born in...
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We've got to focus, people
Kevin Fong offers a few options for the sector in lieu of a realistic strategy
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We have the brains to diversify funding
I welcome David Greenaway's more realistic appraisal of the way forward for university financing ("We did it before ...", 28 January). The higher education sector has done well over the past decade...
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Search for a positive signal
The UK needs to produce more physicists, according to Sir Brian Follett, chair of the STEM Advisory Forum. Yet this is being undermined by severe funding cuts to fundamental physics and astronomy...
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Antidote for toxic cuts 1
If UK universities now operate in a global market for staff and students, then a concern with excellence would seem to make it sensible to revisit the issue of tenure, which was abolished in 1988.It...
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Antidote for toxic cuts 2
Your report on the proposed redundancies in history at the University of Sussex omits one significant wrinkle ("Despite colleagues' support, cuts cause deep traumas", 21 January). The cuts have been...
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Doth protest too much
Much as one regrets Lancaster University's loss ("Researchers fear that early end to collection loan will hit REF standing", 28 January), Robert Appelbaum is too pessimistic when he suggests that...
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Sign of desperation
The notion of "recycled news" reached previously unheard-of temporal dimensions with your disappointingly sensationalist report on a therapist's unconventional work nearly three decades ago ("Stark...
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Killing 'jokes'
It is hardly surprising that the University of Nottingham's complaints procedures have absolved one professor of offending a gay colleague in an email containing a flaccid joke about "faggots" ("...
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Prophetic outlook
PricewaterhouseCoopers reports on university finances in Weathering the storm: Coping with the financial challenge in the higher education sector ("As the good times rolled, a quarter of universities...
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Free at lunch
I would agree with Ron Johnston that lunches with colleagues, networking at conferences and discussion and collaboration with other researchers can help provoke eureka moments ("Small places matter...