Show a red card or just play on?
What should you do when a colleague expresses controversial and offensive views? You must take academic freedom into account, says Harriet Swain, but also take notes, tread warily and act...
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Dream job causes sleepless nights
Name : Philip Plowden Age : 45 Job : Associate dean, clinical legal education, Northumbria University Law School. Salary : Associate-dean level. Background : I did an English degree but now I'm...
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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 not yet a union member and was therefore not balloted on the industrial action on...
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Research jobs fillip at UCLan
The University of Central Lancashire is out to recruit senior academics and their research teams in a bid to boost its academic reputation. The university is advertising in this week's Times Higher...
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Who got that job?
Mark Llewellyn, postdoctoral research assistant, department of English, Liverpool University, based at St. Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, Flintshire. Job advertised in The Times Higher , August 19,...
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Faculties go grey as young shun maths and education
Maths and education departments are becoming increasingly grey-haired as universities struggle to entice young staff on to their academic teams, a report shows. The research councils last week...
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Take me to your leaders
Ewart Wooldridge, chief executive of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, has visited nearly 100 universities and colleges over the past couple of years. "Every institution has been...
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PAY DISPUTE How does your university plan to beat the boycott? PLUS Commonwealth supplement
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Gravitomagnetic Field in Spinning Superconductor ("Gravitomagnetic London Moment") could challenge General Relativity and Point Toward Quantum Theory of Gravity
Paris, 23 Mar 2006 Scientists funded by the European Space Agency have measured the gravitational equivalent of a magnetic field for the first time in a laboratory. Under certain special conditions...
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Dutch, Danish and French enterprises win European Information Society Technology Grand Prize 2006
Brussels, 23 March 2006 A computer memory that can survive radiation and temperatures up to 200°C, a security system that recognizes your face, and a digital content “finger-...
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Commissioner Viviane Reding: The need for a new impetus to the European ICT research and innovation agenda
Vienna, 23 March 2006 Investing in ICT Research and Innovation Vienna, 23 March 2006 Introduction I am pleased to be here with you in Vienna for this event on research and innovation in ICT. In this...
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ESF to take 'Forward Look' at higher education in Europe
Brussels, 23 Mar 2006 The European Science Foundation (ESF) is to carry out a 'Forward Look' into the link between higher education and social and economic change, with the aim of providing guidance...
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Finding partners in food, agriculture and biotechnology research
Brussels, 23 Mar 2006 An event entitled, 'Finding Partners in Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology Research' will be held in Vienna, Austria, on 16 and 17 May to discuss the building of a European...
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Cannibal stars like their food hot, XMM-Newton reveals
Paris, 23 Mar 2006 ESA's XMM-Newton has seen vast clouds of superheated gas, whirling around miniature stars and escaping from being devoured by the stars' enormous gravitational fields - giving a...
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164th COST Committee of Senior Officials Meeting on 29/30 March 2006, Agenda Item 15 - FP7 Financial Support to COST (link)
Brussels, 23 Mar 2006 Full text of Document 218/06 Suite of documents 218/06 With a view to a possible common statement of the CSO to the desired level of financial support to COST from the 7th RTD...