From where I sit: Noble quest for knowledge
How do you become an academic and a scholar? Usually, those who aim to research and teach are privileged with a formal education and spend their lives in academia. It is virtually impossible to come...
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Shirley Grundy, 1947-2010
An ߣߣÊÓƵn educationalist who took on a leadership role in Hong Kong has died.Shirley Grundy was born in Perth, ߣߣÊÓƵ on 25 June 1947. She started her career as a teacher in rural primary...
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Serve business? What about the big issues?
Boredom and lack of interest are conveyed by the faces and body posture of students in the photograph accompanying your article on business schools ("Voices of experience", 15 July). The article...
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Balance imbalance
Kate Pickett is right to question the snobbish attitude that some academics seem to hold towards commitment, persuasive rhetoric and "ideology critique" as legitimate devices in the "battle of ideas...
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Victorian valuations
The debate about funding research-intensive universities ignores commonplace 21st-century working practices ("Truth in numbers: study pinpoints 'critical mass' for research success", 8 July). My...
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Tax haven from self-interest
Certain Russell Group members have displayed distinctly self-interested behaviour in past weeks with regard to student fees. Universities are social assets, yet the extremely well-paid managerial...
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The right kind of scrutiny
Good regulation of the rules that govern behaviour and practice may help standardise social work education. However, moves towards more open and transparent regulation run the risk of providing mere...
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Mastering the research
Your report "Concentrating cash will harm UK, says v-c" (15 July) confuses an important statistic about the research environment. Research degrees are heavily concentrated in research-intensive...
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Media not the only message
I admire Peter Hill's commitment to "keeping it visual" in studio-art PhDs ("How to pass the sight test", 15 July), but he appears to claim special status for studio artists. I can assure him that...
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Do better, Feelbetter 1
The advice dispensed in the Blog Confidential columns has been so consistently obsequious - "take care, keep your head down, do nothing" - that Dr Margot Feelbetter could only be a representative of...
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Do better, Feelbetter 2
The Blog Confidential on unions in higher education (8 July) is way off the mark. It is untrue that "union membership is falling": it has risen markedly over the past two years. And the "dilemma" of...
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And yet it works
The researchers have been exonerated, but details revealed in Climategate led some to demand radical reform of the culture of science. Adam Corner argues that although there is scope for more...
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A bona fide dispute
A paper scrutinising the academic credentials of people on both sides of the climate change debate has riled almost everyone. Darrell Ince considers the faults of a nonetheless important work
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22 July 2010
Appropriate scrutiny? - Climategate’s questions for peer review and the culture of science
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Another fine mess we must get into
Sir David Watson rates the performance of Cable and Willetts and offers them his vision of the academy’s future – a flexible but united sector providing long-term learning on American lines