The Week in Higher Education
The festive period was not kind to the man with responsibility for England's universities. Having been stung by undercover reporters, Vince Cable, the business secretary, may have regretted his pre-...
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Leader: Standing on shaky ground
This year looks to be one in which divisions in the sector widen, leaving no one representing the needs of the academy as a whole
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From where I sit - Keen learners, but tough crowds
All teachers have faced hard crowds; bored, tired, restless students who would clearly prefer to be just about anywhere else than in your classroom.One of my toughest sells was a late Friday...
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Philip M. Taylor, 1954-2010
A professor who considered himself "a goalkeeper pretending to be an academic", after turning to academe following a sporting injury, has died.Philip M. Taylor, of the University of Leeds, was the...
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Hard times and narration arouse passion in US humanities scholars
The “academy in crisis” emerged as a key theme on the first day of the Modern Language Association of America conference, as thousands of humanities scholars gathered in California for the annual...
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Journal rankings help define, not distort
Dennis Tourish argues that journal rankings are haunting business schools and being used to micromanage researchers ("Publish or be damned", 16 December). He suggests that they distort scholarship by...
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Rejection of imputation
While we deplore the University of Bristol's high-handed decision to abolish the study of German literature pre-1750, we wish to dissociate ourselves from Cyril Edwards' unfounded imputation of...
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Tickets for a bumpy ride
Higher education is becoming such fun.Things were once so simple: institutions selected students, some people taught them, other people examined them and they went off with degrees, or not.A move to...
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Outside the ticked box
While I appreciate Tim Birkhead's critique of the "box-ticking culture" in secondary education and share his concerns about the dangers of its encroachment into higher education ("This is customer...
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Conference pairs like minds
Vinicius Licks identifies four essentials to get the world talking about Brazilian academics' ideas ("Don't always follow the crowd", 9 December). But a fifth one is missing. Junior and senior...
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A fresh look at publishing
To see a journal where the article format was redesigned for digital distribution, as discussed in the article "Rip it up and start again" (16 December), take a look at Optics Express (www....
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Why fight old battles?
It seems that 30 years after the death of C.P. Snow we are still fighting the somewhat pointless (liberal) arts versus science battle ("Guiding light in death's shadow"; "It's the breadth that...
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Where research shares the driver's seat with industry
Lord Bhattacharyya's vision of the future fuels Warwick Manufacturing Group, reports Paul Jump
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For discontented Lib Dems, Tories offer the right home
Analysis shows that defectors find happiness with Conservatives, not Labour. Simon Baker reports
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Scholars chip in with a defence of freedom
Academics at the University of Cambridge have been praised for their staunch defence of academic freedom after research on bank-card security was criticised by an industry group.Melanie Johnson,...