Open not shut case (1 of 2)
I disagree with your interpretation of Moving towards an Open Access Future: The Role of Academic Libraries ("Working on borrowed time?", News, 13 September). The report does indeed indicate changes...
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Open not shut case (2 of 2)
"Working on borrowed time?" gives a misleading view of the future of academic libraries. It falls into the trap of implying that libraries are only buildings that contain books and librarians are...
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Peer-to-peer criticism
In "Peer pressure" (Opinions, 13 September), Stephen Mumford points out some of the flaws of the peer review system used by most academic journals and argues for greater transparency in the process....
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Practical inspiration (1 of 2)
Your article "The richly creative will repay support, says CIHE head" (News, 20 September) rightly stresses the need for interdisciplinary research and links between the arts and engineering. I spent...
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Practical inspiration (2 of 2)
Chris Ormell's "Ends and meanings" (Letters, 20 September) on Martin Willis' "Curiosity knows no bounds" (Features, 13 September) proposes science as an activity that tries to uncover the causes of...
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Full disclosure
If more undergraduate applicants are to feel confident that they will get value for money ("No one is escaping the mire", Leader, 20 September), universities should provide more detailed information...
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Research intelligence - Panning for gold dust in midstream
Measure impact while research is under way, urge Jisc-funded studies. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Success at any cost? There may be a high price to pay
Allegations of cheating at Harvard might point to a deeper malaise, finds Jon Marcus
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The week in higher education
• Tributes from across the sector have been paid to Mike Baker, the former BBC education correspondent, who died this week. David Willetts, the universities and science minister, described him in a...
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Leader: Things can only get worse
Budget forecasts suggest that higher education is still at risk from a government needing to find further savings
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From Where I Sit - Personal married to the political
Political scientists are often sniffy about the role of the individual in politics and policymaking. But time and again, in studying what happens behind the scenes in European higher education...
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Off Piste - Is it really so strange?
A young Nick Hillman chose Manchester less for the university’s eminent historians than for the city’s glorious music scene - and despite the latter’s loathing for his Conservative heroine
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Odds and quads
These are among the 400 Japanese stencils (katagami) acquired by the Silver Studio, one of the UK's most influential design houses, in the late 19th century.
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Appointments
Monash/University of WarwickAndrew CoatsThe new academic alliance between Monash University and the University of Warwick has appointed Andrew Coats to the inaugural positions of academic vice-...