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Understanding the Process of Economic Change
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Hey, Prof, my dad wants to see you
Demanding mums and dads will push universities into accepting far more parental representation on campus, a British academic has predicted. Frank Furedi, professor of sociology at Kent University,...
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20% of staff now just teach
One in five academics is on a teaching-only contract, according to official statistics that will fuel concerns over the demise of the traditional link between teaching and research. At least 80 per...
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'A lot of people are watching this. It's a real challenge for Scotland'
The UK's biggest physics group will be led by Ian Halliday, who expects peer pressure to raise standards Ian Halliday, who stood down in March as chief executive of the Particle Physics and Astronomy...
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On the move...
*The Council of Gresham College has appointed Michael Mainelli , executive chairman and founder of Z/Yen Limited as the Mercers' School memorial professor of commerce from August 1 for a three-year...
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Scientists fear broken pledge
The Treasury is privately planning to claw back a significant proportion of the science funding that it committed in its much-vaunted ten-year review of science last summer, The Times Higher has...
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Funding council to downplay talk of crisis subjects
Funding council chiefs will next week play down talk of subjects in crisis while leaving the door ajar for limited Government intervention to protect "strategically important" subjects. Seven months...
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Lyrically libellous
Poem about Frances Howard's marriage to Robert Carr A page, a knight, a viscount and an Erle All foure weare wedded to one lustfull girle A match well made, for shee was likewise foure A wife, a...
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Saucy poets let rip on farts of thunder
Hundreds of libellous poems about murder, corruption and thunderous farting in Parliament have been brought into the open for the first time in 400 years by an academic at Exeter University, writes...
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Next week
The film, the fiction and the fact 'Not escapist fantasies, but works of art with unique relevance for our times' - Arthur C. Clarke on The War of the Worlds and the new Penguin Wells
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Dispute could sink pay deal
Moves to implement the most dramatic reform of lecturers' pay and careers for decades faced potential collapse at more than 80 post-1992 universities and colleges this week as lecturers' union Natfhe...
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Bid to cut red tape could trim sector's bill by £15m a year
Cutting university bureaucracy could save enough money to pay for "one or two" extra academics in every institution in the UK, the head of Britain's red-tape watchdog said this week. The Higher...
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Harassed key staff 'badly paid'
The men and women who work as support staff to keep Britain's universities running are harassed, overworked and among the lowest paid public sector employees in the country, according to a survey,...
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Tangled tale of an editor, the LSE, an EC bigwig, a billionaire and a cruise
A senior manager at the BBC has accused the London School of Economics of a "conflict of interest" over its links with a Greek business magnate. Bill Hayton, who manages the BBC World Service's 12...