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From where I sit - Team Testosterone 19 - equity 0
In 2008, the Canadian government announced an ambitious programme to recruit the best and brightest researchers from around the world via 20 Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC), each funded to...
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Jaroslav Stark, 1960-2010
A pioneer in applying mathematical methods to crucial questions in biology and medicine has died. Jaroslav Stark was born near Prague on 17 June 1960 and came to England after the defeat of the...
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University of Oxford - Names to remember
Ten endangered species have been bestowed with common English names. Until now, the species have not been widely known due to their lengthy Latin designations, but now the public has picked informal...
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Research intelligence - Show and tell: a new school of thought on outreach
Discussing work with schoolchildren helps pupils, researchers and their disciplines, writes Paul Jump
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Faith in Vince's two-step
Yes it’s complex, but the graduate tax is the least of all evils, says Kevin Fong
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We must not rush our part-time PhDs
I have become increasingly worried about an apparent emphasis on the time that research students take to complete their doctorates and yet more league tables citing universities' completion rates ("...
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Big picture, locally drawn
The debate on maximising the impact of research at this year's research methods festival ("'Pure' may be too simple, warn social scientists", 15 July), in which I participated, tackled the issue of "...
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Hands across the oceans
If only the lives of international officers were half as glamorous as Caroline Knowles suggests ("The UK plc roadshow", 8 July). Unfortunately, she presents a limited and one-sided account of the...
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Aspirational language
The idea that Quality Assurance Agency inspectors will report on "threshold standards" ("'Threshold standards' to be upheld when inspectors call", 15 July), when the term "threshold" by dictionary...
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Alas, poor Yorick
We are writing to express our disappointment at ߣߣÊÓƵ's decision to publish the article titled "Brussels cash comes at a terrible price" by Yorick Wilks (1 July). The article, which...
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Outbreak of 'Endnotitis'
Your article "Style points" (15 July) reminded me of the notes for contributors to the Journal of Education for Teaching, edited at the time by the late Ed Stones. He was known for his no-nonsense...
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Divide and (slide) rule
A false dichotomy is posed when physics and engineering compete ("Physicists defend coffers from a raid by engineers", 22 July). Without physics there would be no engineering and vice versa. The...
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Scientific romance
Re "And yet it works" (22 July). (Declaration of interest: I fell in love with science aged 5 and never looked back ...)I caress your hypothesisAnd gently adjust your little factors.How excellent...
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Profits of doom
Climate change is serious business - in more ways than one. Martin Cohen describes how capitalist 'bootleggers' have co-opted the environmental 'Baptists' to fulfil their raison d'etre - making money...