Know when to raze your game
When Glasgow University's Plant Science Research Centre was razed in a fire five years ago, PhD student George Littlejohn was inconsolable. He believed his nearly finished PhD had literally gone up...
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Too timid to make a stand for freedom
Fear of managers and ministers leaves the QAA reluctant to ask if academics can speak freely, argues Geoffrey Alderman. This year, I plucked up the courage to suggest that the Quality Assurance...
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Keep enterprise zones open to tired and poor
In denying migrants ambition and opportunity, America kills the can-do spirit that gives people hope, argues Irshad Manji Probably no phenomenon today is more global in reach than the mass migration...
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Don't run away - face the music
As numbers of students have risen, academics have ducked the question of what purpose university serves, says Bob Brecher. About 40 per cent of UK school leavers now go to university. And yet, apart...
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Know your part in balancing act
Stressed colleagues need bags of support if they are to manage their life and workload successfully. And that's where you come in, says Harriet Swain, but beware of falling into the sympathy trap...
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Papyrophobe seeks splash of colour
Name : George MacDonald Ross. Age : 62. Job : Senior lecturer in philosophy at Leeds University and director of the Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies of the Higher...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. I am a full-time lecturer. My father recently had a stroke and, although he has been...
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Who got that cash?
The world's third-largest design engineering firm has awarded a distinguished academic £700,000 to revitalise a university engineering department. Chun Qing Li will join Greenwich University next...
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UCU tackles racism at grassroots level
Union calls for equality support groups on every campus, says Tony Tysome. Academics will be asked to set up black and minority ethnic (BME) staff support groups in every university as part of a...
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Partners unite to build centre of Arab expertise
Durham, Edinburgh and Manchester universities are seeking "the best of the best" for 39 masters and doctoral studentships to study the Arab world. The universities aim to create an elite group of...
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Today's news
Universities to get guidance on tackling extremism Britain faces a serious threat from Muslim extremists trying to recruit university students to terrorism, the Higher Education Minister, Bill...
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Times Higher Awards 2007 - The Evening in Pictures
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Laurie Taylor Column
From : The Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive. Subject : Times Higher Awards. A small number of short-term non-renewable contract colleagues have expressed concern about Poppleton University's...
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto
My university's emblem is an elephant. Before taxidermy transformed him, the original Jumbo was London Zoo's biggest ever pachyderm. P. T. Barnum, the unrivalled showman, bought him for £10,000 in a...
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Leader: UK excellence deserves reward
Higher education systems all over the developed world are under pressure from politicians. This week alone, we report John Howard, ߣߣÊÓƵ's Prime Minister, urging more young people to become...