Don't be cowed over vital work that saves lives
Those who back animal research have a moral duty to speak up, says 16-year-old Pro-Test organiser Laurie Pycroft Animal research has been seen as a guilty secret for a while now. There is a steady...
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The place where every second is counted
The time galleries Royal Observatory, Greenwich Just before stepping inside the Royal Observatory, perched on Greenwich Park Hill, I stop to take one more look at the wonderful view. A stretch of...
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Friends in Higher places...
Government departments have found that computerising things leads only to trouble. Last week, The Times Higher learnt this lesson the hard way as glamorous guests flooded to the party to launch the...
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...revive the senses...
Huddled in a corner of the gallery we found Dennis Hayes, the president-designate of Natfhe, talking to Simon Davies from the London School of Economics. Mr Davies spoke out recently in The Times...
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...and are quick on the draw
For some, there can never be enough champagne. Colin Pillinger, the brains behind the Beagle 2 mission and owner of the most impressive sideburns in academia, and Nick Newman, the cartoonist whose...
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Why I'll be striking...
A good work-life balance for staff used to compensate for low pay but not any more - it's time to close the wage gap Next week, barring head-spinning turnarounds, I will be going on strike over pay....
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...and why I won't be
The unions are guilty of underhand toing and froing - small wonder there is no pay offer on the table It seems that I am likely, for the first time in my life, to cross a picket line. As an active...
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How four walls could floor your creativity
Ever felt ideas would flow if only you could escape your stuffy office? John Zeisel on the neuroscience-architecture link Winston Churchill proclaimed: "We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape...
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Give credit where credit is due
Tim Birkhead proposes a simple way to protect the innocent from accusations of academic fraud The great British physiologist Sir Edward Albert Schäfer, who died in 1935, was described in his obituary...
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Ask questions first, shoot later
Film and video can be wonderful teaching tools, but to maximise their potential you must think clearly about what you want to achieve, then plan with military precision, advises Harriet Swain Worried...
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Wolf woman caged in prison chic
Name : Karen Jones Age : 33 Job : Lecturer in American history, aka the "wolf woman" (see below). Background : I gained a BA in history at Warwick University and a masters in contemporary history at...
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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 about to start a new post with a local university. Ihave always worked in the...
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MPs face fire from disgruntled scientists
Disillusioned young scientists warned MPs this week that they were facing a crisis of conscience when undergraduates asked them to recommend a career in science. About 150 early-career scientists...
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Lancaster sets up for infusion of new blood
Lancaster University is preparing to recruit more teaching and research staff in health and medicine as it presses ahead with development plans that could lead to the creation of a new medical school...
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Who got that job?
Emily Quinn, teaching fellow in visual studies, Heriot-Watt University Job advertised in The Times Higher, August 5, 2005 Emily Quinn has fallen in love with cashmere. She discovered it - expensive,...