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* Dundee University has appointed: Gordon Liddle director of the Centre for Remote Environments. He was previously operations manager for the Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Isles...
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Psychic offers career advice
London South Bank condemned for hosting 'magical living' workshop. Phil Baty reports London South Bank University has been criticised for hiring a self-styled "psychic" to run a staff wellbeing...
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Will Big Brother be cultural watershed for robots?
A multidisciplinary team is setting up a " Big Brother house " for robots. As in the reality TV show, the robot participants will be under constant observation to see how they interact and how their...
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Prizes aid arts and minds
The number of applications to Edge Hill University has rocketed since it won the 2006 Times Higher award for Outstanding Student Financial Support. John Cater, the vice-chancellor, said the award...
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Film studies: Is it losing the plot? Plus Impotence: Chris McManus tackles a 2,000-year cultural history Fast-forward to the future: ICT special
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Staff cuts looming
Up to 90 academics are facing redundancy at Anglia Ruskin University, which has launched a voluntary severance scheme. The university expects to "release" a total of 80 to 90 academics. Final...
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Documentary protest
More than three dozen leading scientists have signed a letter protesting against plans by production company Wagtv to release its documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle on DVD. The 37...
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Malaysian contract
The next generation of Malaysian schoolteachers will learn their English courtesy of Portsmouth University, which has signed a £6 million contract with the Malaysian Government. Under the deal, 50...
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An iPod assessment
Academics at Chester University are playing the iPod generation at their own game by offering feedback on coursework through internet podcasts instead of written reports. Students completing a final-...
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Rise in applications
The latest Universities and Colleges Admissions Service figures show that applications to full-time UK undergraduate courses are up by 5.2 per cent on last year, to 446,765. Overseas applications...
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Women undertaking research in the Middle East must be especially alert
For a female researcher doing fieldwork in the Middle East one of the most difficult things is finding a suitable place to stay, says Zahia Salhi (right), head of the department of Arabic and Middle...
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Tact and discretion needed to enter tense, secretive region
Carrying out studies in the Middle East can be fraught with difficulty and even danger. Olga Wojtas reports Against a backdrop of high tension in the Middle East, academics continue to carry out...
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Marking advice fails to make the grade
QAA confirms not only wide variations in guidance on classification but also that universities have poor control over examiners, says Melanie Newman Academic examiners have worried about it for years...
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New venture reaches out to Eastern Europe
It is more than 15 years since the collapse of the Soviet empire, but the need to understand developments in Central and Eastern Europe remains. The Centre for East European Language Based Area...
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Play on to improve cultural relations
A game designed by academics at Portsmouth University aims to help overseas students settle into UK life and cope with cultural shocks such as seeing people kissing in public, smoking and drinking...