A culture of excellence
It is not only academics who are snapped up by rival employers, but Jon Baldwin says strong organisations survive
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Choose your yardstick: does anyone know what the RAE really means?
Jonathan Adams says that even close scrutiny of the intriguing 2008 data gives no firm answers about who's better and who's best
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Daytime TV: A baker's dozen
Gary Day on the Time Lord's festive caper, Wallace and Gromit's latest escapade and the Nativity
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Top institutions in agricultural sciences based on impact
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators database, 1 January 1998-31 August 2008
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New Year Honours 2009
Knights BachelorTimothy Robert Peter Brighouse. For services to education. (Oxford, Oxfordshire)David Nicholas Cannadine. Formerly Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother professor, Institute of Historical...
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Bucking the system
The UK's only private university is led by an outspoken iconoclast, does not take part in the RAE and is home to 'internal exiles', mavericks and unabashed traditionalists. Matthew Reisz reports
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More things in heaven and earth, Horatio
Employers have discovered that a mind sharpened by the study of philosophy is ideal for today's workplace, writes Hannah Fearn
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RAE reaction: Fair attempt to achieve the impossible
Ray J. Paul, a member of two subpanels in RAE 2008, says funding should be less elitist than it was in 2001 but argues that the use of peer review needs careful consideration if it is to be used in...
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Positive discrimination and positive action
By Diane Gilhooley
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Results are out, spin is in
Managers have gone to work on the RAE figures, and now Gloria Monday does not know if her university has gone up, down or nowhere at all. But she knows she’s unlikely to be any better off
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Emotional truths
The standard critical and academic response to the film Australia from the likes of Germaine Greer miss the point about the artificiality of cinema and the use of sentiment as style, argues Tara...
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A wonderful world
Gary Day finds a Santa lookalike in Egypt, bigotry in Kansas, sublime jazz and rapidly melting Arctic ice
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Spielberg’s lawyers order Lampeter to ‘cease and desist’
When the University of Wales, Lampeter chose a photograph of Hollywood director Steven Spielberg to illustrate a course leaflet, it probably did not envisage the brochure ever coming to the director’...
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RAE reaction: Go figure
As universities strive to cast their RAE results in the best possible light and the media struggle to grasp the big picture, Nancy Rothwell argues that assessment will always help improve performance