Freedom fears 'not an issue'
An ߣߣÊÓƵn university has disputed claims that concerns over academic freedom threaten Warwick University's plans for a campus in Singapore. Warwick and the University of New South Wales were...
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Centre in misogyny row
France's National Science Research Centre, the CNRS, has been accused of misogyny after it appointed only one woman to its new board of 21 trustees. Researchers have begun a petition in protest...
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Throw a little light on a Dark Ages pay system
The criteria for performance-related pay need to be defined if the system is to be fair, argues Keith Soothill We have had the rhetoric of performance-related pay in academia for years - but its...
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Lords more than a match
Public relations staff at Sheffield Hallam University were reminded of the cardinal rule of publicity at their centenary dinner last week - never work with animals or television celebrities. Lord...
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Funding council captain ahoy
Rumour has it that the only two contenders seriously considering taking the helm of the Higher Education Funding Council for England - a ship that some senior figures are expecting to sink without...
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Can't get no satisfaction?
The Government did much crowing about the unexpectedly high response rate to the first-ever National Student Satisfaction Survey, unveiled in September. But reports are emerging of students who were...
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Ranking and yanking
King's College London started it with their term "ASDA" - the university equivalent of anti-social behaviour orders. Academics are categorised according to their research prowess and those not...
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Promiscuous poetry and mental melodies
"Early humans had discrete intelligences for social activity, knowledge of nature technical knowhow. Creativity occurred when these overflowed into each other" LANGUAGE, POETRY AND THE BRAIN: ART AND...
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Why I believe securing a happy academically active retirement is a lottery
You know the kind of conversation academics have: they are generally littered with bitter complaints about excessive workloads, the growth of audit culture, lack of resources and not enough time to...
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Teaching plagiarism
Showing students how to assess, not produce, knowledge is the way ahead, says William Leahy It is without pride that I confess to recently having been instrumental in the expulsion of two students...
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That way doth madness lie...
A lost draft of Shakespeare's King Lear has been found by Terence Kealey. In the interests of scholarship, we reproduce it here ACT ONE Scene I (Oxford) Enter Vice-Chancellor Lear, the Lord of Hefce...
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Nappy-changing practical. Fail
A new baby has left Kevin Fong exhausted and wondering if life will ever be the same Becoming a parent is one of those things that nobody really warns you about when you're making life plans. People...
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Sort the wheat the chaff
Don't assume that freshers have mastered the art of reading when they arrive at your door, says Harriet Swain. Many will still not know how to distinguish useful material from 'pretentious gibberish...
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The difficulties of digging up files
Name : Roger White Age : 46 Job : Senior lecturer and deputy director of the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at Birmingham University, and aca-demic director of the Ironbridge Institute. I'm...
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Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. I applied for a two-year research position at a prestigious university and was offered...