Priority clash
Students prioritising contact hours in surveys strikes me as an example of the well-known phenomenon of respondents offering what they believe to be the correct or desired answer (“Student...
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Widening the gap
Calculations based on the data for salary gaps between genders was hardly fair to women (“[!University of Essex!] hikes salaries for female professors to eliminate pay gap”, News, 2 June)....
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Little’s not enough
James Tooley’s piece on how the UK academy would be better off outside the European Union was interesting (“Even if Brexit means less funding for universities, we should still vote leave”, 2 June)....
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How is eLife measuring up?
In 2012, the open access biomedical journal eLife was launched to challenge the dominance of titles such as Nature, Science and Cell
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Grant winners – 16 June 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Asia University Rankings 2016 methodology
The changes in institutions’ fortunes charted in this year’s Asia University Rankings tables are calculated with the same carefully calibrated performance indicators used for the Times Higher...
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Spread betting: is all HE expansion good for all?
In India as in the UK, highly stratified systems have negatives, especially for first-generation students
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Black Death literature inspires academic to write debut novel
New fiction explores the parallels between the 14th century and the environmental disaster that may lie ahead
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Interview with Richard Henderson
The winner of the Copley Medal talks structural biology, fixing cars and sleeping soundly
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James Campbell, 1935-2016
A penetrating and highly original historian of Anglo-Saxon England has died
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Do academics need a ‘split personality’ to teach older PhDs?
Doctoral supervisors are having to adapt to a new power dynamic with their students, conference will hear
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US universities ‘obliged’ to speak out against gun laws
President of George Washington University also questions the benefit of free university tuition