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Research ‘already harmed’ by funding freeze
Scientific research in the UK has been harmed by the current spending freeze, a report has claimed
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THE podcast: 13 June 2013 issue review
This week’s issue review looks at the number of women professors in UK universities, our ever-popular Books section, and the growing number of student complaints against higher education institutions
Gender gap in number of female professors Subscription
Just one in 10 at the grade is female at some institutions, Hesa shows
Salford’s vice-chancellor’s candid mea culpa Subscription
Martin Hall offers regrets after inglorious June but remains committed to post
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Rate Your Lecturer website scores poorly with lecturers Subscription
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Labour fees policy may prove unworkable Subscription
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Cambridge forced to keep tabs on foreign scientists Subscription
Handling complaints in the high fees age
As students grow keener to stand up for their rights, is the sector doing all it can to be consistent, fair and prompt when resolving disputes?
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Handling complaints in the high fees age
As students grow keener to stand up for their rights, is the sector doing all it can to be consistent, fair and prompt when resolving disputes?
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Gove, the enemy of promise
The education secretary’s attacks on the academy are a smokescreen for the damage caused by his radical policies, argues Martin McQuillan
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An early modern feminist
Liz Schafer explores why the work of the playwright Elizabeth Cary has been so marginalised
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Howard Davies on French plans that could cost UK dear
Howard Davies and Maria Zhivitskaya say critics of a new law allowing foreign-language instruction are fighting lost Proustian battles
Dear Michael Gove: a letter from a ‘bad academic’
Teacher-turned-scholar Jon Berry sends a message to the education minister on the theory behind best practice
Parental guidance required
When toddler-wrangling there’s no time to procrastinate, John Kaag discovers
Welcome breaches of discipline
Let’s penetrate the academic boundaries, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Fast, local relief for complaints
When it comes to resolving student grievances in the high fees era, it is best if universities can nip them in the bud
Immigration is a positive, not a negative
The academy must repel UKIP’s charges, argues Christopher Phelps
Green open access can work for the humanities
Transition is both desirable and inevitable, Gabriel Egan argues
China’s polite society
Austin Williams on eager-to-please students fired by a passion for knowledge
Get them to give generously
Malcolm Gillies on how to encourage alumni donations
PM sticks to populist numbers
Boris Johnson and Vince Cable both see the harm being done by the hard line on immigration, but Cameron is unlikely to budge
Made in Chelsea
Shaun Lawson on the blooming of a long-held ambition
Dig deeper for victory
G. R. Evans’ rallying cry: scholars, do the spadework to defend the sector
Neurons, you’re fired
Leaders lead, not their brains, argue Dirk Lindebaum and Mike Zundel
Open-access initiatives to benefit the academy
A variety of schemes would allow the academy to reclaim control of its knowledge and labour, says Steffen Böhm
State control to Major Tim
The final frontier to UK space exploration is political but exhilarating nevertheless, says Kevin Fong
A little healthy criticism
The principle of challenging accepted views is vital for the administration of banks, universities, even medicines
Sally Hunt: Time to get our act together
Call to put differences aside, ahead of UCU Congress in Brighton
Why hiring academics should not be left to other academics
Decisions based on gossip and favouritism make the scholarly job market unmeritocratic
Snap decisions
Getting image permissions for monographs is costly, slow and vexing
Take the rough with the smooth
Adrian Furnham has had his share of peer review nightmares, but the frailties of the system have also worked in his favour
Nabil Gindy, 1950-2013 Subscription
An expert in manufacturing technologies who went on to spearhead the research programme at the University of Nottingham’s Chinese campus has died
We aim to please Subscription
“I merely ushered him outside. The suggestion that I ejected him is a gross slander.”
Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica by T. J. Clark Subscription
Alex Danchev applauds a study of one of the 20th century’s greatest thinker-painters
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes Subscription
Robert J. Mayhew lifts off with a true balloon enthusiast
The Invention of Craft by Glenn Adamson Subscription
Nithikul Nimkulrat discusses an ‘indispensable means of working’
Liberty and Security by Conor Gearty Subscription
Amanda Cahill-Ripley on a radical critique of counter-terrorism
