Keep the green moral agenda off campus
'Sustainability literacy' may undermine our tradition of critical inquiry, argues Jim Butcher. Moves are afoot to ensure that all graduates are "sustainability- literate". But what does this mean?...
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Peep's Diary
For whom the bell didn't toll Rumour has it German chemist Gerhard Ertl was so confident of winning the Nobel prize that he turned up at his office just before 11.30am, the time at which the Swedes...
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All shades of a wide white world
'Whiteness studies' provides new ways of thinking about race inequalities through examining privilege. John Preston explains. In Don DeLillo's novel White Noise , the author imagines a new academic...
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Men too must work to take back the night
With rape going unpunished, we must reshape the law and attitudes to masculinity and violence, says Joanna Bourke. Sensuality is a source of delight. At least that was what I had assumed as a young...
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Boundaries are there to be leapt
A visit to a US college filled Frank Furedi with the hope that UK academics too can cross the disciplinary divides that hold them back. Although it has been more than two weeks since I returned from...
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Be an advocate, devilish or not advocate
A tutor's role is vital in encouraging students to debate and cogently argue a viewpoint. It requires preparation, generosity and setting clear ground rules to get them involved. Harriet Swain...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. 'I have come across several cases of plagiarism in students' work, which I have...
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Buzzing with caffeine and science
Name: Neil Stewart Age: 33 Job: Reader in psychology, Warwick University Salary: £41,500 What's your practical training? I studied natural sciences as an undergraduate at Cambridge University. I had...
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Who's in, Who's out? - Hertfordshire
Astronomer and stellar astrophysicist Janet Drew has swapped Imperial College, London, for Hertfordshire University this month, taking up a chair in its Centre for Astrophysics Research. Professor...
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Bolton fitness initiative gets staff back to work
Stress management programme based on physical activity has halved sick days. Melanie Newman reports. A stress management programme based on promoting physical fitness among staff has dramatically...
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Degree details urged
Plans for a radical overhaul of the degree classification system have been shelved by the group set up to review the way student achievement is recorded. Instead of scrapping the current system,...
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Positive advice
Do come in, Doctor Millmoss. Welcome to the Arts and Humanities Research Council. You wanted to know the result of your research proposal? That's right. Perhaps you'd like to remind members of the...
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Leader: Missing out on a first-class opportunity
It is hard not to feel sorry for the authors of the Burgess report. Asked to address a perceived problem with the degree classification system, they duly did so - only for their proposals to be...
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Let's get research basics right 1
The research councils' proposal that academics justify their work in economic terms ("Research must show pay-off", October 12) should alarm all those who believe in the Haldane principle under which...
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Working hypotheses 1
There is a certain kind of infuriating manager you meet occasionally who is always complaining about staff who complain. Susan Bassnett's point about overworking lecturers who need to get a life ("...