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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 a female researcher of black Caribbean origin employed on a two-year fixed-term...
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Who's in who's out?
ROEHAMPTON Christine Skelton left Newcastle University in June after 19 years to become professor of education at Roehampton University. She researches issues of gender in primary schooling and is...
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Oxford admits lack of minorities at top
Oxford University needs to attract more applications from black and ethnic minority candidates for its academic and senior administration posts, an internal investigation has concluded. Research over...
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Time for some cultural exchange
Colour and cultural differences continue to cause problems for black and ethnic minority staff and students at Oxford University despite its efforts to improve race relations, according to the...
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Today's news
Future dentists being turned away The Scottish Executive’s record on dentistry was said to be “in tatters” yesterday after it emerged that would-be dental students are being paid to stay away because...
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Laurie Taylor column
Maureen@poppleton.ac.uk Out of office reply I am out of the office until Monday September 5th. No, I haven't just "popped out" for a minute. No, I won't be back shortly and so simply standing outside...
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Leader: Places squeeze benefits no one
Ministers, as well as universities, have seen this week's squeeze on degree places coming for at least a year. Admitting that the imminent arrival of top-up fees was bound to produce a rush in 2005...
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Leader: Free to be controversial
Anyone who makes judgments on the relative capabilities of men and women knows that they are in dangerous territory. Just ask Lawrence Summers, the president of Harvard University, whose position...
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Still hogging research profits? 1
It is ironic that Rene Olivieri's criticism of supporters of open access ("Making a pig's ear of an unscientific free-for-all", Opinion, August 19) often lapsed into the polemical, as this was a...
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Still hogging research profits? 2
Given the lack of substantial price differences between paper-copy and e-subscriptions, I am not sure Rene Olivieri is being clear about his company's motivations for moving to e-subscriptions. While...
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Still hogging research profits? 3
Rene Olivieri, chief executive of Blackwell Publishers Ltd, does not take his analogy with George Orwell's Animal Farm far enough when he compares not-for-profit open-access publishers to the pigs....
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No fear
By quoting statements from individuals who know nothing of the circumstances in which the University of Wales, Lampeter discontinued its accreditation arrangement with the European Institute of Human...
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Red tape's nemesis
Can we persuade the Higher Education Funding Council for England to cut unnecessary bureaucracy and focus on more risk-based regulation? Recent initiatives are encouraging, but there is much to do;...
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Star-crossed review
I understand that astrology is not high on The Times Higher 's list of concerns, but it is unfortunate that space was given to a book on the subject (Books, August 19) when its author and reviewer...