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PaperRank service will allow researchers to rate papers online in bid to accelerate and open up process

PaperRank service will allow researchers to rate papers online in bid to accelerate and open up process

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This week's edition of Times Higher Education, discussed by the editorial team

Judy Clements to join Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education next April

A poet and leading 18th-century literary scholar has died

Iain Foulkes on how scientists can win part of huge grant to push forward the frontiers of cancer research

We speak to the London College of Fashion professor and author of a new book on Muslim fashion

University of East Anglia centre hosts two master’s courses in space with writable walls and adaptable furniture

Royal Society of Chemistry and Institute of Physics report warns of uncertain future

Machiavellian tactics used by university leaders and their minions are often viewed as malevolent, but they are vital to running an organisation, says new study

The UK’s female academics are paid £6,146 less on average than men, with lack of women in leadership and management roles a factor, says new report

The history of a sanctuary where science meets art is an emotionally charged work, says Timothy Mowl

Howard P. Segal on a brilliant study exploring the conflict between free speech and instruction guides that may be used for violence

Vespucci, French military glory and recondite legal strategies: bibliographic confessions from the author of A Foot in the River: Why Our Lives Change – and the Limits of Evolution

A. W. Purdue on a study of the disparate groups in a movement often thought of as a united force