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The long march to the country and back
Fleeing Hitler
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Star-crossed lover of our solar-cycle dependency
The Sun Kings
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An endless measuring of red tape
The New Bureaucracy
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Fit for a prince or just creepy?
Britain - From a Cause to a Style
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There's lots of life beyond skills
Maria Misra suspects a Gradgrindian view of humanities lies behind the Government's privileging of science So now we are all working for the new Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills....
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Time to spend, spend, spend
To invest your hard-won research grant to optimum effect, you need to enlist the help of your institution's procurement department and wise up to tempting sales patter. Harriet Swain explains Money,...
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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 an offer of a lecturer's post at a university outside the UK, but I have to...
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Mending broken faces, keeping an eye on violence
Name: Jonathan Shepherd Age: 57 Job: Professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery at Cardiff University. I have an honorary consultant contract in the Cardiff and Vale National Health Service Trust...
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Middlesex pay rise in abeyance
Staff at Middlesex University will not receive their pay rises this week. All academics are due to receive a 3 per cent rise on August 1 as part of the three-year deal negotiated nationally last year...
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Who got that cash?
Clinical geneticist Zosia Miedzybrodzka's pioneering work on clubfoot has seen her honoured for "excellence in medical research" by the children's medical research charity Sparks. Dr Miedzybrodzka,...
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Teaching set for big boost in promotions overhaul
A major HEA project will examine how excellence is recognised and rewarded. Rebecca Attwood reportsAcademics will be more likely to win promotion for good quality teaching under a new initiative from...
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Fieldwork perils mount
Report identifies failures and omissions in sector's approaches to safety of social scientists. Rebecca Attwood reports Instances of assault, murder and psychological trauma as a result of academic...
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RAE reject aims to log views of excluded
An academic branded "research inactive" because his work will not be submitted for next year's research assessment exercise is forming a support group for other academics left out in the cold....
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'What distinguishes us from schools in the us and canada is a flexible approach'
Warwick Business School's dean is celebrating his school's 40th anniversary with three awards of his own Don't tell his vice-chancellor, but Howard Thomas would happily work for free. The dean of...