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Stressed colleagues need your listening ear when facing life and workload challenges, but avoid the sympathy trap
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Top 10 scientists in geosciences based on total citations
Data from Thomson Scientific’s Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 1997Â31 October 2007
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Teaching Only staff have 'Great Day Out'
Last Tuesday was a very special day for our university's "teaching only" staff. In the early morning, over 400 "only" dons climbed aboard the specially laid-on executive coaches and set off for what...
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Old-school values for news
Our future fourth estate needs core skills taught in sciences and humanities, not media studies, argues Tim Luckhurst.
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Rules of the game
Tim Birkhead asks: When does being inspired by another's idea turn into theft?
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Leader: Cities size up the brain gain
Local communities are rediscovering a Victorian-era passion for higher education.
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Dennis Foy, 1953-2008
A world-leading expert on automotive technology, a prolific author and a part-time journalist has died.Dennis Foy, senior lecturer in media at the University of Wolverhampton, died on 10 January aged...
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Oxford Brookes and Staffordshire - Requests to raise loan limit
Special permission to borrow amounts greater than 4 per cent of their income has been sought by Oxford Brookes and Staffordshire universities. Universities have to gain authorisation from the Higher...
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In defence of Sir Ian Wilmut's honour
You reported on the petition directed against the knighthood awarded to Sir Ian Wilmut ("Wilmut knighthood enrages former team", 31 January). I was director and chief executive of the Roslin...
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Identifying the neediest 1
Your cover story "Reaching out but still falling short" (24 January) pointed to apparently disappointing figures for students from widening participation target groups. The article reported a 1.24...
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Identifying the neediest 2
We read with deep concern, although sadly not surprise, your coverage on the Offa report highlighting the significant percentage of students who fail to claim bursary monies for which they are...
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Forward, march! 1
So, women's studies at the University of Warwick is now part of war and conflict studies ("Last women standing", 31 January)? Similarly, the enlightened attitude of Birmingham's Centre for First...
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Forward, march! 2
After reading June Purvis ("In search of women's writes", 24 January) I asked myself why I had never written to ߣߣÊÓƵ. One possible explanation is that as a woman I don't feel much...
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Forward, march! 3
Not only do I suffer from multi-sector personality disorder, being a leader for higher education in a further education college, but I also have to bear the injustice of underrepresentation. I...
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Science needs democracy
Lord Winston gets himself Brownie points by declaring that scientists should heed the public's fears (News, 24 January). Yet last month, when we raised the legitimate concern that the Human...