Standardise penalties for cheats
Mandatory expulsion is certainly one way of dealing with plagiarism. Another way, which both academics and students may consider fairer, and therefore more appropriate, is to assess the context of...
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Seeking redress
It was irritating to find myself misquoted in the article "Students reject complaints code" (THES, July 2). The consequence of the misquotation should not be a distortion of a debate of central...
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Oceans apart
Paul Ormerod (Letters, THES, July 2) is critical of our report on the almost complete disappearance of Britons interested in a career in university economics. Yes, in principle, we should be able to...
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Arguments of merit
Aristotle warned against importing standards of measurement where they do not belong. For good reason. Teaching - not least, higher education - is not commerce, but a vocation. To think otherwise is...
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Arguments of merit
To a very large extent, academic staff salaries are already performance related. Over the past 15 or 20 years, probation has become increasingly stringent; staff appraisal, research assessment...
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Arguments of merit
Peter Humphreys returns to the old chestnut of performance-related pay for academic staff. He appears unaware that, before his arrival in the sector, the last government imposed such a system on new...
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Arguments of merit
Peter Humphreys may well be right that we need "a pay structure that rewards merit", but PRP is not the answer. I have been on PRP for the past four years. Each year I get a small rise roughly in...
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Have grant, will travel
ߣߣÊÓƵn government proposals for portable research scholarships have the academic community up in arms. Geoff Maslen reports. Acontroversial shake-up of ߣߣÊÓƵ's research funding system will...
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Hip, hip, hooray
Two new techniques will improve the lives of those with hip replacements. Geoff Watts reports. Materials scientist John Metcalf uses an apt comparison to illustrate one of his projects. "You can...
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Northwest rises to the challenge
A group of universities is leading the drive to be at the centre of wealth creation. Kam Patel reports. The government's push to make universities more entrepreneurial should be allied to a...
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Disputed grounds for knowledge
Is Science Multicultural? - Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate
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The art of being a show-off
Rembrandt to Himself - Rembrandt as an Etcher
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Look who's talking now
Apes, Language and the Human Mind
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On your Marx for a philosophical race through human nature
Ten Theories of Human Nature
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work that is set in the Big Apple by an author who was born in the Big Easy: "I am always drawn back...