Can Star Wars save job cuts at London Met?
Campaigning staff at London Metropolitan University have turned to “the Force” for help in fighting hundreds of job cuts at their institution.A spoof scene from Star Wars has been posted on YouTube,...
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Bullied Blogger: ‘I need to do something to get me out of this hole’
20 April: I was shocked by the pre-disciplinary report sent last Friday. I feel I am a fool to have thought that the pro vice-chancellor for law and social sciences was in any way going to give a...
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Ucea makes 0.3 per cent pay offer
Employers’ organisation says move is ‘realistic, responsible and credible’ in the prevailing economic conditions. Melanie Newman reports
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Edinburgh students reward best teachers
Eusa awards ceremony recognises the top of the pedagogic pops. Rebecca Attwood reports
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UCU to ballot for strike action
Ucea ‘bewildered’ as move is announced less than halfway through an agreed timetable for negotiations. Melanie Newman reports
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Terror suspects on student visas released without charge
All of the men arrested earlier this month under the auspices of the Terrorism Act 2006 have been released without charge, but most have been handed over to the immigration authorities. Twelve men...
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Disappointment greets Budget announcement
No new money for places or researchUniversities must fight for grantsSavings demanded from research councils and institutions£50m for Technology Strategy Board Any hope that more money may be made...
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Book of the week: Architecture Depends
A call for architects to rejoin the messy world delights Flora Samuel
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The week in books
How We Live and Why We Die: The Secret Lives of Cells by Lewis Wolpert, professor of biology as applied to medicine, department of anatomy and developmental biology, University College London. Faber...
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Al-Qaeda Goes to College
Anthony Glees says this book fails to consider the threat to academia posed by terrorism's side effects
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Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America
Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America. By Kathleen M. Brown. Yale University Press, 448pp, £25.00. ISBN 9780300106183. Published 3 February 2009
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, London WC1
1. A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter Harvard Business School Publishing, £14.99 ISBN 97814221797102. Tort Law, Second Edition by Emily Finch and Stefan Fafinski Pearson Education, £10.99 ISBN...
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Splendors and Miseries of the Brain: Love, Creativity, and the Quest for Human Happiness
Prashanth A K admires the exuberance of this ambitious study, but not its central thesis
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingART AND DESIGN- Style and Function in Roman Decoration: Living with Objects and InteriorsBy Ellen Swift, head of classical and archaeological studies, University of Kent....
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Overseas briefing
ߣߣƵDung dearth thwarts DNA huntA lack of fossilised dung is hindering the efforts of a researcher to identify the DNA of ancient animals. Since 2005, Alan Cooper, director of the University of...