The week in books
Teenagers: A Natural History by David Bainbridge, university clinical veterinary anatomist, University of Cambridge. Portobello Books, £13.99, ISBN 97818461212"The selling point is that David...
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ART AND DESIGNArchitecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro.By Robert Kirkbride, director of studio 'patafisico and associate professor, Parsons The New School for...
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From where I sit - Don't join ghostwriters in the lie
A relative in his early thirties about to finish an economics degree has told me that cheating at universities is rampant.Plagiarism is commonplace and many students buy essays and submit them as...
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What's in a name?
Our Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has given an enthusiastic welcome to the suggestion from researchers at the University of California, San Diego that academics should be given a...
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The wrong sort of society
A market-dominated culture fails to sustain social mobility, writes Alan Ryan
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Leader: Good work that needs to continue
London Met has taken on the difficult job of widening access - it deserves support and backing in this tumultuous climate
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Sally Ledger, 1961-2009
Sally Ledger, a leading authority on Victorian culture and women's writing, has died.
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The facts on pay still look bleak to me
Jocelyn Prudence (Letters, 22 January) urges us to "examine the facts". I have worked at the University of Leeds for nearly 35 years and during that time, the job of raising a family has proved quite...
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Value for money
Sally Hunt's analysis of the salary of the vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton is confused and incomplete (Letters, 29 January). She seeks to compare a potential future increase in pay...
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Fraud is fraud worldwide
I don't think Niall Hayes' article on plagiarism is particularly helpful ("A cheat, moi? That's unfair", 29 January). Obviously there is more to a plagiarism "offence" than a simple similarity count...
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Statistical uncertainty
Brenda Gourley's timing was unfortunate (Letters, 29 January). On the day her letter appeared, the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills issued a Statistical First Release for 2007-08,...
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Male-tinted glasses
Last week's Times Higher Education confirms something I've been noticing for years. The illustrations of the typical academic, whether photos or cartoons, tend to assume he is male.This seems to be...
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Intellectual evolution
Les Ebdon argues that "Older isn't always wiser" (29 January). That may be appropriate in some disciplines, but there are some striking exceptions, especially in biology and with holistic rather than...
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New talent of all ages
Your article "Nurture new talent, RAE panels say" (22 January) reports that the panels for the 2008 research assessment exercise expressed concern over a lack of funding for "new talent" and the...
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Conduct unbecoming
We are all professors at Leeds Metropolitan University and have been caught up in the controversy surrounding the sudden resignation of Simon Lee, the vice-chancellor. There is one aspect of your...