Shelf harm (1 of 2)
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Shelf harm (2 of 2)
I am concerned about the plan to relocate the Women's Library at London Metropolitan University to the London School of Economics ("Imperilled archive seeks new fearless champion", News, 2 August)....
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Tough to predict
Your review of my book Tiger Head, Snake Tails: China Today, How It Got There and Where It is Heading ("The anatomy of a strange beast", 5 July) says it "pulls its punches". But as the book makes...
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Sustained interest
"Morocco mission aims to build bridges and silence scepticism" (News, 28 June) stated that Maghrebi studies have been neglected in the UK academy. This is incorrect: they have been flourishing since...
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Golden holocaust deniers
It is, perhaps, ironic that "Smoke and mirrors" (16 August) draws a comparison between the horrors of the Nazi era and the numbers killed by smoking in the 20th century: research in Germany in the...
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Direction-of-travel writer
I noticed the travelators in our wonderfully developed Sainsbury's here in Darlington repeatedly instruct users to "Please face the direction of travel". I am fairly certain this has been sampled...
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Leader: Clarity begins at home
Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and the UK's institutions and researchers must be fearless in shining a light on misconduct
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Research Intelligence - Alt-metrics: fairer, faster impact data?
Scholars unhappy with 'crude' journal metrics are looking to Mendeley and its ilk. Paul Jump reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education
• David Willetts, the universities and science minister, ushered in A-level results and clearing by calling for elite universities such as Oxford and Cambridge to expand. In comments reported by The...
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From where I sit - Model resistance
Since February, tens of thousands of Quebec students have been on strike against tuition increases that will raise their fees by 82 per cent over seven years. The strike has been so successful that...
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Off Piste - Vicious cycle
With cycling enjoying huge popularity after the successes of Bradley Wiggins and other Olympians, Thomas Docherty explores how the pain, endurance and concentration demanded by the sport’s premier...
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Odds and quads
These pictures of women - one wearing a blue silk headdress, the other displaying her gold engagement jewellery and hennaed hands - were taken in rural Turkey in the 1980s.
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Appointments
University of WestminsterDavid DernieDavid Dernie has been made dean of the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Westminster. He joins from De Montfort University,...
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Poachers' paradise
The economic woes of public universities in the US present ‘a prime opportunity’ for institutions with money to swoop in and snatch up staff. Jon Marcus reports