A classical trumpeter
With his biographies and reference works, Michael Kennedy is striving to expand classical music's audience, discovers Christopher Wood The public doesn't deserve Michael Kennedy. For more than 60...
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Recruiting drive may gobble up pay cash
A surge in the number of professors and senior staff recruited by universities threatens to swallow what extra cash there is to meet pay demands across the board. New figures from the Higher...
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East meets West but Right steers clear of Left
It is a delicate diplomatic dilemma - how to ensure that Bill Rammell and Boris Johnson do not end up in the same room at the same time wooing the same Chinese higher education dignitaries. With all...
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'Universities are becoming more aware of the power of scholarships'
Edinburgh's new vice-principal of development will crank up its fundraising efforts to support bursaries The new vice-principal of development at Edinburgh University, Young Dawkins III, says the...
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On the move...
* Oxford University has appointed: Manfred Engel , currently professor of new German literature at Saarland University in Germany, Taylor professor of the German language; John Hawthorne , professor...
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Standard is set to lift teaching
A new framework aims to establish UK-wide criteria and ensure that academics are trained to meet them. Jessica Shepherd reports UK academics have created the world's first guide to the standards of...
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Just drop dead? That's too easy
Scotland's men have long had a reputation for violence, but new research reveals just how fiery its women could be. A St Andrews University historian has discovered that Scottish women in previous...
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Women find their way up the ladder
Anne Kerr typifies the kind of ambitious and determined woman beginning to make her mark in higher education. At the age of just 36 and only 12 years since starting out as a research fellow at...
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Harvard chief makes early exit
Lawrence Summers, the president of Harvard University, quit this week, days before academics were to consider a second vote of no confidence in his leadership. Derek Bok, president of Harvard from...
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WINNERS AND LOSERS Who's prospered and who's been penalised in Hefce's £6bn 2006-07 teaching and research grants? PLUS Laurie Taylor interviews the deeply disillusioned cultural studies guru Stuart...
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Med schools predict fierce fight for first doctor posts
Medical students may be unable to find a junior doctor post when they finish their five years of training unless the Government takes urgent action, angry medical school heads have warned. Long-...
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Researchers to get a bill of rights from P&G
Revelations that academics had published findings on a drug without full access to trial data have led Procter & Gamble to make a commitment to transparency and integrity. Phil Baty reports...
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Experts cast doubt over scientists' claims for Actonel
Significant doubts over scientific claims made about Procter & Gamble's osteoporosis drug Actonel were raised this week after a report by The Times Higher last year that Sheffield University...
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Censorship claim as surfers find sites blocked
Nottingham Trent University has been accused of censorship after installing a software package to block staff access to a wide range of websites. Lecturers' union Natfhe this week said that the...
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Exam boycott will hit public services
Lecturers' union leaders plan to starve the UK of nurses, teachers and key public sector workers this year to underline the seriousness of their "now or never" campaign for higher salaries. Members...