Leader: Can academics be entirely free?
Who could object to a statement of principle in support of academic freedom? Surely here lies the ultimate "motherhood and apple pie" topic of university life, and the only surprise is that anyone...
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Leader: Learn from Cambridge
At least the academics' verdict on Oxford University governance was decisive. Even the strongest supporters of the ill-fated reform proposals would not have wanted a narrow victory in this week's...
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Age is not the issue - ageism is 1
The claim that a generation gap is opening up between young academics "who embrace a performance culture" and their older colleagues ("Young guns ditch old values", December 15) does not accord with...
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Age is not the issue - ageism is 2
I recognise much of what was written in your lead story (December 15), although my own experience is that it is less age-specific and more to do with career ambitions. I have many remarkable young...
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Age is not the issue - ageism is 3
Olivia Besly, human resources manager of a proudly "age-positive" institution (Working Knowledge, December 8), counsels against rejecting a balding job applicant on the assumption that he will retire...
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Age is not the issue - ageism is 4
The entry criteria for universities should not include a minimum or maximum age. One cannot assume that a person under 18 years lacks the academic and personal maturity required to undertake a degree...
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Words, not numbers 1
In claiming that citation counting is unlikely to deliver, Ole Petersen (Opinion, December 15) overlooks a point missed by many. Yes, citation counting can be an unreliable way to judge an individual...
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Words, not numbers 2
If only the cartoon that accompanied Ole Petersen's article were accurate. You show a scientist standing on top of what appears to be a pile of books. But books don't cut the mustard in the research...
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Words, not numbers 3
As a Canadian legal scholar responsible for promoting and evaluating research, I note that any plan to evaluate scholarship on the basis of "research income, postgraduate numbers and bibliometrics"...
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Disabled access 1
Christopher Baswell makes some cogent observations (Opinion, December 15) about provision for people with disabilities in UK universities. It is a pity that the article, particularly the headline,...
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Disabled access 2
We were saddened but not surprised to read the article "Staff are afraid to declare disability" (December 8). Until now, what possible incentive has there been for staff to openly define themselves...
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Lesson yet to learn
As someone who bought a gleaming, leak-free Suzuki triple in the mid-1970s, I agree with much of Stephen Heppell's analysis of a moribund higher education sector (Opinion, December 8). But I was...
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Darwin dilemma
I empathise with Satoshi Kanazawa's position on academic freedom (Opinion, December 15). I am in a similar predicament. For some time, I have been pointing out that Charles Darwin did not originate...
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Being a man just ain't what it used to be
Men remain overwhelmingly in control of the business, media and and cultural worlds, so why all the talk of a 'crisis in masculinity'? Lynne Segal investigates He'll look cute, in a bathing suit, on...
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Some sex, no drugs, but rock 'n' roll
Mandy Garner sifts through replies to our lifestyle survey and finds that the film noir-watching political animal of yesteryear has morphed somewhat Six per cent of academics admit to having had an...