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  1. The metrics of metrics 1

    Critics of the Cranfield study of correlations between 2001 research assessment exercise scores and citation counts (Letters, 21 February) ignore two important points. The first is that a metric...

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  2. The metrics of metrics 2

    Replacing the current RAE with citation counting is quick, cheap and simple. But only if whole universities are evaluated, instead of specialist cost centres.In a paper published in Science and...

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  3. Homegrown philanthropy

    We owe the North Americans a huge amount for their enthusiasm, drive and willingness to promote university fundraising as a noble cause ("The art of asking", 21 February). But it would be wrong to...

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  4. Digesting the news

    The new format of ߣߣÊÓƵ is certainly saving me a lot of time. Without even opening it, I can read The Poppletonian and then check the index to find the page or two that I have to...

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  5. The missing link

    By linking radical changes we are making in the organisation and management of our university with the very welcome recruitment of Gill Nicholls as our new pro vice-chancellor academic ("Salford's...

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  6. Onomastic revelations

    I have long considered the apparent conjunction of individuals' surnames and their occupations unworthy of comment. But having just read the list of Russell Group heads ("League table sizes up v-cs'...

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  7. Short-sighted shrift

    The proposals to cut courses and jobs at Keele University are short sighted and will have a disproportionate effect on students from non-traditional backgrounds. ("Restructuring round-up", 21...

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  8. A penny for your thoughts

    Academics are at the very heart of the knowledge economy, but just how far should they and their institutions go in the commercial exploitation of their ideas? Hannah Fearn explores the potential...

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  9. Threads that twist and tangle

    Are students' disparaging comments online just harmless gossip or defamatory remarks that can tarnish universities and academics? Hannah Fearn teases out the strands

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  10. A tainted saviour?

    Despite saving the lives of nearly 2,000 fellow Jews in wartime Hungary, Rezso Kasztner was vilified and ultimately assassinated in postwar Israel. Academic Ladislaus Lob was one of the boys Kasztner...

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  11. Economics round-up

    Pricing Derivative SecuritiesAuthor: Thomas Wake EppsEdition: SecondPublisher: World Scientific PressPrice: £46.00ISBN 97898100339A presentation of techniques for valuing derivative securities at a...

  13. Geography and environmental sciences round-up

    A Reef in Time: The Great Barrier Reef from Beginning to EndAuthor: J. E. N. VeronEdition: FirstPublisher: Harvard University PressPrice: £22.95ISBN 9780674026797A historical, geological and...