Beat the odds in an all-new game
The RAE may be replaced by a metrics-based system - but how will it work? How should you play your research hand when you don't know the rules? The simple answer is not to try, says Harriet Swain Ka-...
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Snow in June, full house in July
Name: Tara Moore Age: 33 Job: Lecturer in immunology, Ulster University, Coleraine. Salary: I do it for the love of it, but £30K+ keeps me in Noa Noa clothes and Issey Miyake perfume. Background: It...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. During the recent industrial action, as a member of my trade union, I refused to set...
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Visiting lecturers shout for fair deal
Hourly paid staff have united to fight the management at the University of the West of England in the first non-union group of its kind. The group, which dropped its original title of Shout (Support...
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Who's in? Who's out?
Warwick E-learning could help universities prepare junior doctors to develop a more technology-enabled health service, according to David Davies (pictured), who joins Warwick University as a reader...
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Portsmouth builds cultural-industrial faculty
Government support for the creative and cultural industries and growing student interest in related disciplines have prompted Portsmouth University to establish a new faculty to capitalise on this...
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Today's news
Top grade for a quarter of A-level pupils The A-level pass rate has risen for the 24th year in succession and almost a quarter of entries were awarded A grades, the exam boards announced yesterday....
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Laurie Taylor column
What Are You Reading on Holiday? According to reliable estimates, nearly 80,000 academics from UK universities are currently enjoying a summer vacation. But what are they reading during their time...
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Alan Ryan
Today is A-level results day. It was nice to see Alan Johnson, the Education Secretary, getting his retaliation in not just first, but a whole month early: not waiting until the results were out to...
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Leader: Ministers bluster, universities suffer
The declining proportion of people entering higher education is a major blow for the Government. Its drive to expand student numbers and attract more pupils from less privileged backgrounds is,...
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Leader: The democratic guide
Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia that allows users to write, edit and add to its articles, has often been accused of inaccuracy. In the past, it has offered entries describing footballer...
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Long way to go to find fair funding 1
While Claire Donovan makes a persuasive case against metrics (Opinion, August 11), this new system of measuring research quality will not differ significantly from the research assessment exercise....
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Long way to go to find fair funding 2
I was pleased to see such a positive take on postgraduate research ("Research boost will bring jobs bonanza" and"Life for PhD students is on the up", August 11). But there is still a long way to go....
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Cash and complaints 1
You report that students decided not to bring a complaint to the Office of the Independent Adjudicator because they feared they would not get compensation ("Newport spat could set legal precedent",...
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Cash and complaints 2
I was very saddened but not surprised to read "Grievances are 'mishandled'" (August 4). This adds weight to the argument that universities must make students' examination papers available once they...