Laurie Taylor – 12 October 2017
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Publishers have been driven to desperation
In the news story “Publishers seek removal of millions of papers from ResearchGate”, James Milne, a spokesman for a group of five academic publishers that includes Elsevier, Wiley and Brill, says...
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First principles
I was interested to observe how little Pragya Agarwal’s “Careers intelligence” article “How to write the perfect PhD proposal” (News, 5 October) corresponded to the way in which PhD candidates are...
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Mail call
Many US homes have a mailbox at the edge of the property that residents visit to find out what has arrived since they last looked. That is a much better procedure than having post pushed through your...
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Don’t just scoff
In the news story “Survey results confirm UK university staff’s deep dissatisfaction” (5 October), your correspondent writes: “The final results…have made it clear that malcontents were not...
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Athena SWAN funding link under scrutiny in discrimination row
Female lecturers allegedly under pressure to settle legal action after university’s equality charter application rejected
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US College Rankings 2018 results: a game changer for American higher education
Phil Baty on why the results of the 2018 Wall Street Journal/ߣߣƵ US College Rankings, published on THE today, matter so much
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Andrew Adonis and the 'former polytechnics' (again)
John Morgan looks at how an old argument may become pressing in future funding debates
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'Urgent need' for ministers to prevent post-Brexit HE brain drain
Lord Hunt on how to ensure the higher education sector retains its competitive edge post-Brexit
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University of Montreal seeks French students rejected at home
Canadian institution targeting thousands of French applicants who fail to gain place at home
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Student dormitory managers in Turkey jailed on 'terrorism' charges
Student accommodation wardens are latest to be imprisoned in Turkey's anti-Gülenist crackdown
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‘No rise’ in share of foreign university leaders in Japan since 1980
While proportion of foreign faculty at Japanese universities has increased, study finds no rise in share of leaders
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European University at St Petersburg faces research-only future
With latest application for teaching licence rejected in long-running battle with authorities, time is running out to start the new academic year