Tune in to their brainwaves
A candidate's potential is not always clear from A-level results, so make sure that you ask the right questions. If you don't, an inspired thinker could easily slip through your fingers, says Harriet...
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Bins and balls get a good kicking
Name : Phil Cooke Age : 40 Job : Senior lecturer in Italian at Strathclyde University, right in the centre of Glasgow. Salary : Senior lecturer scale. What is your background? First degree and PhD in...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. I work three days a week teaching. The other two days, I do research - unpaid. I am...
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Unions on course to accept low offer
The lecturers' trade unions are likely to accept a 2005 pay offer that just three weeks ago they dismissed as "hugely disappointing" in an attempt to rally grassroots support for a battle for a...
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Who got that cash?
A project to replace paper notes with digitally stored data about experiments has been awarded additional funding by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The CombeChem project at...
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OU tutors vote on pay deal
Hundreds of tutors at the Open University were balloted this week on a pay deal that would see starting salaries for associate lecturers rise by 10 per cent. After a year of negotiation, OU members...
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Laurie Taylor Column
Hull lacks "attractiveness as a university city" - Lincoln University's vice-chancellor explains why his Hull campus has enrolled fewer students than anticipated, The Times Higher , July 15 From:...
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Leader: Reversing the continental drift
Higher education may soon be at the forefront of a unique development in the UK's relationship with the rest of Europe. The future European Research Council's scientific membership was named this...
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Leader: Follow the money trail
Nothing better illustrates the need for the Government's £4 million campaign to explain top-up fees to students and their parents than this week's statistics from the Universities and Colleges...
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A Marxist lesson for terrorists 1
Terry Eagleton only confuses matters with his ignorant remarks about terrorism ("Terror - it's a truly bourgeois tradition", July 15). He puffs Edmund Burke, who chose to ignore what Thomas Carlyle...
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A Marxist lesson for terrorists 2
What tosh Terry Eagleton writes. Amazed that his dizzying chorus - Burke, Brecht, Hegel, Beckett, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Kierkegaard, Kant, Marx, Balzac, Trollope, Dickens, Nietzsche, Hume, Pascal...
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A Marxist lesson for terrorists 3
Apart from being enlightened and entertained, as usual, by the many insights and felicities of thought and expression in Terry Eagleton's piece, I am saddened that he has used the word "anarchy" (and...
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A Marxist lesson for terrorists 4
Terry Eagleton presents, unargued, the Marxist position that law is not an abstract and impartial system of justice but is based on class or self-interest and, therefore, ultimately on violence....
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Boosting the boys 1
The Higher Education Policy Institute report assumes that the Government will fail in its ambition of 50 per cent of 18 to 30-year-olds participating in higher education ("Boys jeopardise Blair's...
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Boosting the boys 2
We agree with the Hepi report's suggestion that there are deeper cultural reasons why certain groups, especially boys, are not being attracted into higher education. We believe that the issue of...