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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is attributed to a slave whose works were later collected by a 14th-century monk: "The things brought by ill...
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Kant get no satisfaction, try iTunes new No 1
Forget classic Beatles songs, Take That's comeback hit and the Party Shuffle playlist. The latest chart-topper on the digital music download website iTunes is a series of lectures on Kant's...
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Young guns ditch old values
Academics are starting to embrace business culture as they scale the career ladder, writes Tony Tysome. A generation gap is opening between a new breed of ambitious young career-minded academics who...
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'After california, I had a different perspective on business activity'
John Bell has been appointed to run the newly formed Office for Strategic Co-ordination of Health Research The appointment of John Bell, president of the Academy of Medical Sciences and regius...
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On the move...
* Judith Weir , formerly at Princeton and Harvard universities, has been appointed distinguished visiting research professor in composition at Cardiff University's School of Music. * Arokia Nathan...
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Metrics will kill diversity claim
Subject leaders warn new system will focus on 'safe' areas, stifling emerging ideas, says Anthea Lipsett Subject leaders have reacted angrily to sweeping reforms to the way university research is to...
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Hepi: funding reforms naive
Plans to reform the research councils' peer-review system for allocating grants could threaten the dual-support funding system, the Higher Education Policy Institute warned this week. Funding for UK...
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Research bodies fear DTI bid to siphon off £140m
Research councils fear that the Department of Trade and Industry will attempt to fill a hole in its coffers by clawing back £140 million that is already earmarked for research, it emerged this week....
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Next week
News review of the year... the highs and lows of 2006 Plus... Fallen archangel: he was God's enemy, but was the Devil all bad? And... The winning entry in our satire competition
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Monkey medicine
Intimidation of researchers involved in scientific experiments on monkeys is stifling recruitment into the field, a report says this week. The Weatherall report, on the use of non-human primates in...
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Solent appoints v-c
Southampton Solent University has confirmed that it has promoted Van Gore to become its vice-chancellor. Professor Gore, deputy vice-chancellor, will take up the role at the end of July 2007, when...
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Halifax campus plan
Halifax will get a new centre for higher education in a deal between Calderdale College and Leeds Metropolitan University. The two institutions this week signed a formal agreement to work together on...
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IT policy lacking
Nearly a third of further and higher education institutions in the UK do not have formalised policies governing staff access to information and communications technology, says a new report. The...
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Academy health review
The Higher Education Academy this week set up a new interdisciplinary special interest group for Public Health. The group said it would respond to the health service's growing needs for a range of...