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* Louise Merrett has been appointed Lovells lecturer in law at Cambridge University. She is currently a college teaching officer as well as director of studies in law at Trinity College, Cambridge...
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Newby attacks funding system
Former Hefce chief claims student-support package is 'socially regressive', Lee Elliot Major reports Government support for students and universities is unsustainable, unfair and unrealistic,...
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Beware of the charmer bearing flowers
If your charming boyfriend or husband sometimes seems too good to be true - chances are he is, according to research by Bolton University. Chris Kirkman, senior lecturer in health and social studies...
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'Hounding' could lead to another David Kelly case
An academic whose work was rubbished by the Government has warned ministers they risk another David Kelly suicide if they persist in "hounding" critics at universities. Simon Davies, a visiting...
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Next week
Labour pains We reveal the inside story of the difficult birth of the new academics' super trade union, the 120,000-strong University and College Union
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Rules hurt new blood,say liberal arts staff: RAE 2008 countdown
The ground rules for the 2008 research assessment exercise will unfairly penalise new academics in the humanities, it was claimed this week. The rules, unveiled by the funding councils last week,...
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Researcher gets into the spin at 80
An 80-year-old academic has created two spin-off companies from the results of experiments he conducted over almost four decades, writes Jessica Shepherd. Colin Caro, emeritus professor in...
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Government agrees to release details of visa regime
The Government this week promised universities more details of its proposed visa reforms, which institutions fear will damage overseas recruitment. Ministers have agreed to release details of the new...
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5* team crosses city to join rival
Sheffield Hallam University has netted a department of top-rated sport science researchers from neighbouring Sheffield University, just days before the start of the Winter Olympics in Italy....
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Forensic body to dissect provision
They have been branded a "savage waste of young people's time and parents' money" and a ploy to get bums on seats in universities by exploiting popular television dramas. But forensic science degrees...
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Laurie Taylor Column
As part of a new service, this column will regularly devote space to answering questions about critical aspects of the next research assessment exercise. This week's question comes from Dr "P" of the...
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Competition is healthiest option, no really
Funds should follow students. Steven Schwartz outlines what he feels should be the next big thing in reform
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Leader: Diplomat needed for thankless job
Being the most powerful person in higher education can be a thankless task. Sir Howard Newby, the departing chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, was ultimately in...
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Leader: Wheeling and dealing
Little, it seems, divides academics more than the issue of costly car parking. One union official contends that parking, even more than pay, guarantees packed meetings of academics debating the...
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Should we have faith in Dawkins? 1
Although Denis Alexander makes some superficially reasonable criticisms of Richard Dawkins's programme The Root Of All Evil? ("The devil within Dawkins", February 3), he has fundamentally...