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  3. Leader: A Google-eyed view of the world

    The web's instant access to good, bad and unfiltered data means we need libraries, and librarians' expertise, now more than ever

    #Leader
    #Opinion

  4. Kenneth Walton, 1919-2008

    A Birmingham professor who fed workers greasy fry-ups to help explore the causes of heart disease died on 7 May aged 83.Kenneth Walton dedicated his life to researching heart disease, thrombosis and...

    #People

  5. English-born Yale provost becomes Oxford's next v-c

    The provost of Yale University is set to become the next vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford.Andrew Hamilton, a professor of molecular biophysics who has been provost of Yale since 2004, is...

    #Institutions
    #News
    #University of Oxford

  6. The meeting of true minds - and bodies 1

    I shall be starting university in September and fully intend to have relationships with my fellow students and lecturers. It would be naive to think they would not become sexual ("Erotic pedagogy",...

    #Letters

  7. The meeting of true minds - and bodies 2

    Guidelines are about as far as an educational organisation can go to keep lecturing staff out of trouble. When I was a head of department in a UK tertiary institution, I always advised my staff to be...

    #Letters

  8. The meeting of true minds - and bodies 3

    I was surprised by the flippant tone and complacent content of the feature on sexual relationships between academic staff and their students.The simple truth is that the asymmetries of power, age and...

    #Letters

  9. Motion and intransigence

    The QCs' advice about the legality of the University and College Union motion "to consider the moral and political implications" of links with Israel smacks of political expediency ("QCs say bid to...

    #Letters

  10. Pro bono, pro and con

    At the risk of telling Cambridge Economic Policy Associates their business, they seem to have misrepresented the economic character of peer review, albeit in a way that caters to academic grievances...

    #Letters

  11. We don't need no education

    It was perhaps short-sighted of Bill Rammell to condemn so emphatically Bruce Charlton's suggestions that children from higher social classes have a higher IQ than those from lower social classes....

    #Letters

  12. Nottingham answers sought

    The University of Nottingham's statement on Rizwaan Sabir's arrest and detention under anti-terror legislation is at odds with the student's account ("Nottingham scholar held for 6 days under anti-...

    #Letters

  13. Data protection and the law

    Part of my role involves the development of staff training materials to raise levels of awareness and proficiency concerning data protection ("Don't tell mum: academic censured for discussing son's...

    #Letters

  14. Original ideas about copying

    We read with interest how Steve Bennett of the University of Hertfordshire uses plagiarism-detection software to highlight and reward originality in his computing students' written work ("Originality...

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  15. Hits and misses

    Does the Google generation, which has grown up with a deluge of data just clicks away, lack the independence of thought and critical rigour needed for higher study? Matthew Reisz investigates

    #Features