Mum's place is in the wrong
Blame culture leaves parents confused and guilty, a conference will hear. Melanie Newman reports. "Dysfunctional families," Tony Blair said last month, "need to be made to change." A few days earlier...
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Prizewinner has reaped rewards
As Dan Todman, The Times Higher Young Academic Author of the Year for 2006, says, having an award does not make finding a balance between research, admin and writing any easier. However, the author...
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Outrage at BNP invitation
A furore has erupted after a Bath University student invited the British National Party on to campus, writes Melanie Newman. Students and staff will rally in protest on May 14 when Nick Griffin, the...
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TIED UP IN RED TAPE How many forms does it take to get a research project off the ground? PLUS : Who's running your course? Business muscles in on higher education
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Good or bad taste - it's in the can
Film studies now cover Tarantino as well as Truffaut and take in YouTube and obsure horror flicks. But academics are split on the subject's future, says Melanie Newman Turkish trash cinema, Nigerian...
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Inside track...
Our occasional column keeps you a breast of developments in the jobs market, from tip-offs and career pointers to who's on the move in your field BOLTON BOOSTS 'SMART' TEAM Bolton University is...
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EIT won't grant degrees
The European Institute of Technology will not award its own degrees but will lend its name to qualifications provided by other institutions, the Continent's research ministers decided last week....
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NUS shake-up planned
The National Union of Students is to restructure as part of a wide-ranging review of policy and strategic direction. The NUSsaid the review aims to improve the effectiveness of its services to its...
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Dean quits MIT over CV
The head of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has resigned over allegations that she lied on her CV. Marilee Jones, the dean of admissions, left her job after admitting that she...
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Joint online venture
Essex University is to launch foundation degrees wholly online and year-round in partnership with US private education and training firm Kaplan. The first course, business studies, starts in July....
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A hot collaboration
Students on a professional writing course at University College Falmouth have worked with a local newspaper, the Falmouth Packet , to produce a four-page climate-change special. The supplement, with...
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Correction
Mary Rose is based at Lancaster University and not Glamorgan University as we said in "Innovative Glamorgan" ( The Times Higher , April ). Professor Rose, of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and...
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Fighting cybercrime
The University of East London has set up the first internet portal for the reporting and analysis of cybercrime across Europe. Victims of Internet Crime Europe (Voice) is the idea of Hamid Jahankhani...
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Modern Irish on offer
Modern Irish has become the newest subject on offer at Cambridge University. The Irish Government is funding classes in modern Irish at Cambridge to commemorate it becoming the 23rd working language...
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Switched-on project
Researchers at Manchester University have joined forces with Dialight Lumidrives - founded by a former student - to develop powerful low-cost LED lighting modules that can provide community-friendly...