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Name : Susan Starkings. Age : Old enough. Job : Head of skills for learning, Centre of Learning Support and Development, London South Bank University. Salary : Awaiting higher education role analysis...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. After working full time as a lecturer since 2001, I took a year's maternity leave and...
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Stars in oncology sought
Manchester University is seeking 30 world-class academics for its Cancer Research Centre in a drive to improve medical research. The initiative will include up to 300 new posts. The university,...
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Who's in who's out?
HERIOT-WATT. At 44, Anton Muscatelli , who succeeds John Archer as principal on February 1, is probably the youngest vice-chancellor of a pre-92 institution. He has been Daniel Jack professor of...
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Work-life culture praised
Accolade for Liverpool John Moores could lure staff. Olga Wojtas reports Liverpool John Moores has become the first UK university to earn an Investors in People award for promoting work-life balance...
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Laurie Taylor Column
" Research suggests that what counts for today's academic is not high intelligence but high emotional intelligence " - The Times Higher, November 24 Good morning, Maureen Morning, Professor Lapping...
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Leader: Pressure gauge is creeping up
Vice-chancellors still feel the need to justify so-called Mickey Mouse degrees while funding council officials cast a (slightly) critical eye over initiatives to widen participation in higher...
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Hood loses Oxford vote
Oxford University academics this week voted decisively to scrap their vice-chancellor's controversial plans to reform the way the ancient institution is run. The dons' parliament, Congregation, voted...
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Open debate on course closure 1
Last week's cover story ("Johnson acts to halt closures", November 24) hints that ministers are belatedly acknowledging that their refusal to act over department closures is endangering wider policy...
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Open debate on course closure 2
Some of the discussion stimulated by the proposed closure of the physics department at Reading University gives the impression that increased student recruitment would avert such problems in the...
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Open debate on course closure 3
I read with interest that "the Government is demanding early notice of university plans to axe 'strategically important' subjects" as nearly a quarter of physics departments were found to be in "a...
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Beware old slackers 1
I agree with Tim Birkhead (Working Knowledge, November 24) that the research assessment exercise can promote petulance in academic high-flyers, but why single out colleagues on prestigious research...
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Beware old slackers 2
Much as I agree with Tim Birkhead's description of the possible problems for universities recruiting young prima donna researchers who see teaching as a chore that is beneath them, I felt he could...
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Iraqi refugee appeal
The appeal by Sami Ramadani about the plight of Iraqi academics (Opinion, November 24) deserves considerable support from your readers. Today, we learnt that political scientists Abdul Salam Swaidan...
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Too late to start now
As a mature entrant to academe (an Open University degree at 31; PhD at 37), I too have experienced ageism (Letters, November 24). When job hunting several years ago I was told by a head of...