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Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, 1999-2009
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How big is your impact?
Speculation that a Poppleton sociology don had secured a top mark in the new measurement of research impact has been dashed by a spokesperson for the Economic and Social Research Council.The story...
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Let's relax about fairness
This talk of social mobility is a poor form of radicalism, says Alan Ryan
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Total disclosure a sign of the academy's time-and-motion sickness
Thomas Docherty examines the transparency culture, its political uses and the dangerous implications for scholarly freedom
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Off Piste: Dream date with Carrie's Big (Apple)
When Joanna Lewis finally got to meet the city she had watched for years on the screen, she found that, like many long-anticipated rendezvous, it did not all go to plan
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Leader: Shared scholarly passions
Who'd marry a single-minded, career-focused academic? Other academics, it seems. But such a relationship can have downsides
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From where I sit - Measuring the unmeasurable
Assessment and impact: these are the new watchwords in higher education. We have assessment indicators in the social sciences, the physical sciences and our business and law schools, which ask: "What...
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William Birch, 1925-2009
William Birch, a leading geographer who had a decisive impact on the development of Bristol Polytechnic, has died.He was born on 24 November 1925 and educated at Ranelagh School in Berkshire,...
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'Impact' assessment must look at learning 1
Your recent news story on the research excellence framework quotes Graeme Rosenberg, REF project manager at the Higher Education Funding Council for England, saying that the proportion of the REF...
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'Impact' assessment must look at learning 2
You report that the importance of academic research may be judged in part by its impact on the wider world. Do I sense Max Clifford's entry into the academy, with the first scholar to get their work...
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Duty to contract lecturers
I was moved to read that four London institutions have agreed to pay their cleaners and caterers more than the minimum wage ("Group reminds institutions of duty to help lowest paid", 23 July). I hope...
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Creativity is a must
While welcoming 10,000 additional university places, the decision to restrict them to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects alone ignores the coterminous nature of arts and...
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Learn to stand alone
Kevin Sharpe hits the nail on the head ("Teach them how to think", 16 July). Broadly speaking, pupils have learnt to be taught, whereas students are learning to learn, to study under guidance. They...
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Moved on from Mao
As your correction makes clear, Mao Zedong died in 1979, not 1976 ("From where I sit", 9 July). It is a rather comforting reflection of how much China has changed that your correspondent, Hong Bing,...