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EXTERNAL assessment of research in higher education (and indeed teaching and administration) is essential, but leaves much to be desired. Making the research assessment exercise fair, open and...
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Wellcome priorities
IT IS indeed welcome that the government's comprehensive spending review has released a much needed extra Pounds 600 million for research infrastructure in universities (THES, July 24). The influence...
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Don's Diary
Monday Back in berserkly Berkeley for six weeks of reading and writing at the Center for Studies in Higher Education, one of my favourite places.The sun ricochets off the white stone of Wheeler Hall...
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Goodwill eroded by public pay sacrifices
It will take some time to assess the impact of government spending plans for universities. Is it all smoke and mirrors or a push towards real change? Universities are not thought to be a priority...
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Service benefits everyone
Many universities have mission statements that commit the institution to community service as well as to teaching and research. It is not always clear what priority community service rates - in many...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an author who was accused of penning a novel of "scandalous notoriety" when...
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Detour through deviance ends at a camp site
Queer Forster
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Anodyne nuns and peppy pre-Normans
The Oxford Companion to Irish History
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Highs and lows amid the groves
A History of the University in Europe - A History of the University of Oxford - A History of the University of Cambridge
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The colossus of runs
W. G. Grace
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No Homer before breakfast
Classics Transformed
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Friendly way to science
Lancelot Hobgen, Scientific Humanist
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Art to tempt the Ming consumer
Art in China - Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China
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Our lives written in the genes
In the mid-1990s, geneticist Dean Hamer's claim to have isolated a "gay gene" earned world headlines. Now Hamer, chief of gene structure and regulation at the United States National Cancer Institute...
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Silent fears of society's cancer
According to sociologist Frank Furedi at the University of Kent, the history of racism in the 20th century can best be described as "a silent war". His new book provides a critical account of the...