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  1. From where I sit - A little more application required

    The Japanese government has set a policy aim of increasing the internationalisation of higher education in both teaching and research. Recognising the limited Japanese-language capabilities of...

    #From Where I Sit
    #News
    #Opinion

  2. Kathleen Jones, 1922-2010

    A pioneering historian of British mental health provision has died.Kathleen Jones was born in London on 7 April 1922 and won scholarships to North London Collegiate School and then to read modern...

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  4. Arts and impact: with friends like these (1 of 4)

    The humanities may yet survive, if only they can be protected from their current advocates. The articles by Judy Simons and Rick Rylance ("REF pilot: humanities impact is evident and can be measured...

    #Letters

  5. Arts and impact: with friends like these (2 of 4)

    Although the coalition government appears indifferent to everything save the market, it has offered to concede one academic value: to his credit, David Willetts, the universities and science minister...

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  6. Arts and impact: with friends like these (3 of 4)

    I was one of the 13,000 academics who signed the University and College Union petition against "impact" last year. As it happens, my department was then selected to take part in the research...

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  7. Arts and impact: with friends like these (4 of 4)

    The results of the Higher Education Funding Council for England pilot, showing how the assessment of research's socio-economic impact can be incorporated into the REF, are to be welcomed. It is clear...

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  8. The choice delusion (1 of 2)

    We have now heard from both vice-chancellors who served on the Browne Review committee. Aston University's Julia King reassured us of the panel's "independence", but also revealed that it took full...

    #Letters

  9. The choice delusion (2 of 2)

    David Eastwood complains that "much of the debate surrounding Browne has been ideological". It is perhaps to avoid being himself charged with taking an ideological stance that he casts the Browne...

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  10. Continuing standards

    It is ridiculous to have 50 per cent of school-leavers going to university because it means that we get people with below-average aptitude, ability or intelligence doing degrees ("The academy's role...

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  11. Peer review? Priceless

    Nobody, especially not a journal editor, would want to denigrate the contribution made by academics to the process of peer review. But to place a cost on it seems to miss the point ("Pay out then...

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  12. Library still has strong card

    For some time now, there have been statements originating from organisations that do not manage major research libraries on the future of those that do ("Time to shelve the book habit", 4 November)....

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  13. Manner of speaking

    Brian Bloch claims that "Non-native speakers (of English) are generally unable to write an acceptable level of English for academic purposes" ("Trips and falls of the tongue", 21 October). But what...

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  14. Scorpio rising, reluctantly

    I sympathise with Jay Kennedy ("My Dan Brown moment", 4 November). Things could be worse, though: at least he was in the limelight for an important contribution. My "real" work on religious change...

    #Letters

  15. Digital 'deviants' and the spirit of '68

    In May 1968 the old order was upturned by marginalised contract lecturers. Today, the proliferation of online courses offers slow-track academics a similar opportunity to seize the scholarly high...

    #Features