Implement peer review or resign, controversial journal’s editor told
10 March 2010
Ultimatum spells end for Medical Hypotheses in its current form. Zoë Corbyn reports
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BREAKING NEWS
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UK risks ‘relegation’ from top scientific nations, warns Royal Society
9 March 2010
The national academy says Britain cannot afford to cut science funding at a time when other nations are increasing their investment. Zoë Corbyn reports
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What business wants: fewer graduates, higher fees, more input
9 March 2010
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Academic to argue that conviction was unlawful
9 March 2010
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No misconduct by professor who used student’s work in paper
8 March 2010
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STFC funding revamped to protect national facilities
6 March 2010
READERS' REACTIONS
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Practise what you preach, wrapped up in red tape and who owns the rights to your work?
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Have your say on Malcolm Gillies' call for ethical and intellectual models for students, the audit overload and the ruling that a student did not own the copyright to her dissertation
COVER STORY
Audit overload
4 March 2010
Bureaucracy is an inescapable fact of life in today's academy. John Morgan unravels the true extent and consequences of red tape
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Leader: Red tape: A form of distrust
Leader: Red tape: A form of distrust
4 March 2010
As audit overloads academics, it also undermines their freedoms, impedes their work and damages their public standing
ONLINE COLUMNISTS
The insecure scholar: Breathing space at last
9 March 2010
Landing work provides a little relief, but the long-term future is as unsettled as ever
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An opportunity to restore value and clarity to degrees
9 March 2010
Launching the Association of Graduate Recruiters’ manifesto for higher education, Carl Gilleard calls for an end to participation targets and the fees cap and for more employer input in courses
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Blog Confidential: Burnt out and nowhere to go
4 March 2010
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The insecure scholar: The Judas generation
2 March 2010
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Dismantling subject centres would be ‘self-immolation’ for HEA
1 March 2010
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Blog confidential: An ethical dilemma
25 February 2010
PEOPLE
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Michael Goulder, 1927-2010
4 March 2010
A leading theologian who abandoned a promising career in the church to become an "unaggressive atheist" has died.
RESEARCH
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Research intelligence: Gifts for posterity
Research intelligence: Gifts for posterity
4 March 2010
An oral history project is interviewing the stars of UK science and their unsung supporting acts. Zoë Corbyn writes
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Grant winners
4 March 2010
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Field rankings for Iran
4 March 2010
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Research intelligence: An ocean of opportunity
25 February 2010
BOOKS
Book of the week: No University Is an Island
4 March 2010
We'll swim together or sink separately, finds Charles R. Middleton
We Are Not Alone: Why We Have Already Found Extraterrestrial Life
4 March 2010
The claim that there is life on Mars - and beyond - is sadly not yet proven, writes Ian Crawford
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When Men Dance: Choreographing Masculinities across Borders
4 March 2010
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Let freedom ring
4 March 2010
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Why We Disagree about Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity
4 March 2010
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Published this week
4 March 2010
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The Canon: Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers. By Stanley Cohen
4 March 2010
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The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System 1830-1970
4 March 2010
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Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times
4 March 2010
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What are you reading?
4 March 2010
OPINIONS AND LEADERS
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Practising what we preach
Practising what we preach
4 March 2010
Malcolm Gillies on our duty to offer students ethical and intellectual models
THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS EVER WRITTEN?
Canonical texts: are these the most influential books ever written?
23 April 2009
Are you obsessed with a 'baggy monster' or has a photocopied pamphlet sparked your passion for a whole new area of research? To kick off our new weekly series, leading scholars explain which books they believe are definitive in their field
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Review wars
Review wars
4 March 2010
In an unprecedented UK move, Professor Lapping of our Department of Media and Cultural Studies has announced that he is to institute a libel action against Dr E. Stobart, the reviewer of his recently published book on television quiz shows.
PILED HIGHER AND DEEPER
Cartoon by Cham
4 March 2010
