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A joint Russian-Czech East European Studies journal has been set up between Moscow and Prague to help bridge the gap that has existed in academic relations since the 1968 Soviet invasion of...
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US society rethinks its policy on CIA job ads
The American Association of Anthropologists has removed CIA recruitment adverts from its publications after a row over academic independence. The association, which held its annual conference in...
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Soviet space project
A St Petersburg academic who developed a web-based virtual museum on the history and cultural impact of Russia's kommunalki - Soviet-era communal apartments - hopes to take it worldwide in...
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Students report police brutality
Colombia's notorious Mobile Anti-Disturbance Squad (Esmad) has been deployed at the National University of Colombia, where faculty and students are resisting management-inspired reforms. Human rights...
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Non-academic fees banned amid outcry
ߣߣÊÓƵn universities will be barred from imposing compulsory service fees on their students from July of next year. Academic and student groups say 4,000 jobs would be lost as student services...
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Swedes are told to cut choice
Sweden's National Agency for Higher Education is urging the Government to ensure a better fit between university courses and labour market demands. Chancellor Sigbrit Franke, head of the agency,...
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Ten-year v tenure: do academics need MOTs?
Perhaps university posts shouldn't be for life, but they shouldn't be just for Christmas, either, says Douglas Kell Every year, motor cars are put through MOT tests to assess their fitness for...
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Nancy Rothwell
Oh, what should one wear to Buck House for one's investiture? Should one wear a hat and how does one bob to HRH? On the day of my investiture, the Queen was otherwise engaged in Malta. Rather...
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Clowning around in a tuxedo at 50 below
Enduring the Antarctic winter is an experience not to be forgotten. Storms scour the frigid landscape in a perpetual night as temperatures drop to - 50C. For the past two Antarctic winters, I was...
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Openness is not to be sniffed at
Last week's parliamentary debate on the pharmaceutical industry's influence on research drew heavily on a recent Times Higher exposé about a Procter & Gamble drug study by researchers at...
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Nursery tantrums
Terence Kealey, vice-chancellor of Buckingham University, is not known for a tendency to shun the most controversial stance when on the telephone to a journalist. He was at it again last week when he...
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Child of the 60s told to grow up
Paul Mackney, general secretary of lecturers' union Natfhe, has been advised informally by his colleagues to brush up on his public relations skills now that his union is set to merge with the...
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Creative orthography, anyone?
The University College for the Creative Arts has got some eagle-eyed academics rather hot under the collar. In a recent job advertisement in The Times Higher , UCCA sought a director of studies to...
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Hail the heroes who brave front line
As some epidemiologists avoid engaging directly in public-health work, Douglas Weed says respect those who show no fear Debates in academia are common and often not relevant to anyone outside our...
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Painful consequences of sanctioning torture
What do political scientists and psychologists think about the use of torture by modern states? Torture is unjustifiable in any circumstances according to the overwhelming majority of political...