Academics

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Robin Okey obituary
Other lives: Leading specialist on east European history and on the culture of Welsh nationalism

Chris Read

18, Mar, 2024 @7:35 PM

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Michelle Donelan set to face more questions over taxpayer-funded £15,000 payout
Cross-party group of peers expected to ask for more details about why minister made and withdrew claims about two academics

Michael Savage Policy Editor

10, Mar, 2024 @6:00 AM

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Michelle Donelan deserves to lose her job over false allegations against two academics | Observer editorial
The science and innovation secretary falsely accused two academics with whom she disagreed of holding extremist views

Observer editorial

10, Mar, 2024 @6:00 AM

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Taxpayers foot the bill after academic’s libel action against UK minister
Michelle Donelan had urged Research England to cut ties with a member of its advisory group over alleged Hamas support

Peter Walker Deputy political editor

06, Mar, 2024 @7:34 PM

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UK science minister apologises and pays damages after academic’s libel action
Michelle Donelan had accused two members of Research England’s advisory group of ‘sharing extremist views’ in letter to UKRI

Richard Adams and Peter Walker

05, Mar, 2024 @8:07 PM

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Phillip Williams obituary
Other lives: Pioneering educational psychologist who sat on the committee of the 1978 Warnock report on special needs

Gareth Williams

23, Feb, 2024 @11:05 AM

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Nothing compares 2 Schubert’s weepies | Brief letters
Brief letters: Best breakup songs | Damn fine film | Emeritus perks | Covid drama

20, Feb, 2024 @4:53 PM

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When grapefruit mustn’t be your cup of tea | Brief letters
Brief letters: Medical effect of grapefruit | Brexit shoulder | Murderous Mozart | Emeritus professors | Rishi Sunak on the edge

18, Feb, 2024 @4:44 PM

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Taylor Swift ‘swiftposium’ kicks off in Melbourne: ‘I once got a lot of judgment in my field’
About 400 academic papers from 78 research institutes were submitted for an event that pushes back against gendered bias to take the pop phenomenon seriously

Sian Cain

11, Feb, 2024 @11:28 PM

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‘The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point
Last year, 10,000 sham papers had to be retracted by academic journals, but experts think this is just the tip of the iceberg

Robin McKie

03, Feb, 2024 @4:00 PM

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The rights and wrongs raised by an exam marking boycott | Letters
Letters: David Mead says there is a strong case that deducting pay may be unlawful as well as morally indefensible, while Prof Colin Bailey of Queen Mary University of London says it will not accept disruption to its students’ education

31, Dec, 2023 @6:02 PM

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Pat Coombes obituary
Other lives: Lecturer who helped to set up a controversial social sciences degree course at the Open University

Sue Coombes

28, Dec, 2023 @5:03 PM

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