The week in higher education – 14 January 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Gangs of Russia: From the Streets to the Corridors of Power, by Svetlana Stephenson
Book of the week: Tim Hall on post-Soviet criminal clans, diverse and complex groups to whom lawlessness is anathema
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Ed Balls interview: ‘When the dust settles, people see the truth’
Gordon Brown’s former right-hand man talks to John Morgan about his return to Harvard, Labour’s higher education ‘failure’ and a political comeback
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Stop, look, listen: the university’s role in counterterrorism
Does the UK’s Prevent strategy go too far in its demands on institutions? A group of experts share their perspectives
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Laurie Taylor – 14 January 2016
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Getting your citations in order
Who loses out when a scholar fails to acknowledge earlier related work? Ron Iphofen on the evergreen virtues of desk research
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Who are the real victims?
In a somewhat martyr-like fashion, Stefano Bonino grumbles about the ink he spilled writing an earlier article defending the employment of former police spy Bob Lambert in a university environment (“...
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Review needed
It was heartening to read Lars Fischer’s defence of book reviewing (“Scholarly book reviewing: time for a plot twist”, Opinion, 7 January). This is self-evidently a vital scholarly function that...
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The metrics scale
It is pleasing that Jonathan Grant makes such a robust defence of quality-related funding and also highlights that the research excellence framework is a relatively inexpensive way of allocating this...
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Skills over nations
It was unfortunate that Anna Notaro’s letter chose to make an unfounded accusation of “prejudicial attitudes towards Southern European citizens” rather than engage with my argument that the European...