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The April 22 edition of The Times Higher stated that Abderdeen University and York St John College won Heist Gold Awards. King's College London also won a Heist Gold Award for its 2005 postgraduate...
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Italian law contravenes EU law by failing to take account of experience acquired by applicants for teaching jobs in other EU countries in same way as experience in Italy: judgment (C-278/03)
Luxembourg, 12 May 2005 C-8/03, Commission of the European Communities v Italian Republic Judgment of the Court of Justice (Second Chamber) on 12 May 2005 (link to English version when available)....
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Outcome of the First Reading of Proposal for a Recommendation to Facilitate Uniform Short-Stay Visas for Researchers (link)
Brussels, 12 May 2005 Full text of Document 7954/05 Suite of documents 7954/05 Subject: Proposal for a Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council to facilitate the issue by Member...
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BITE project initiates a European debate on the ethics of biometrics
Brussels, 12 May 2005 Biometrics technology is increasingly being discussed as a means to tackle fraud and theft. National debates are underway in several countries on how desirable this technology...
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Russian and EU leaders adopt road map towards 'common space of research'
Brussels, 12 May 2005 The political leaders of the European Union and the Russian Federation have taken a further step towards the creation of a 'Common space of research and education' between the...
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US must take steps to attract the best international scientists, argues new report
Brussels, 12 May 2005 In light of the increased global competition for top-level students and researchers, a comprehensive effort is needed to attract the best to the US, according to a new report by...
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Today's news
London Met lecturers to strike Lecturers at London Metropolitan University have vowed to disrupt an inspection by the government's higher education watchdog by going on strike for the whole of next...
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Laurie Taylor Column
"We (academics) seem to be inundated with new courses" - Nancy Rothwell , The Times Higher, May 6 UNIVERSITY OF POPPLETON From: Jamie Targett, Director of Corporate Development Subject: Summer Term...
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Leader: Take a long-term view on research
Like other treadmills, the research assessment exercise is universally unpopular but hard to escape. The full impact of the reforms introduced for 2008 will become obvious only when the results - and...
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Leader: Make or break reform
Academics in other institutions may regard next week's vote on governance reforms at Oxford University as an irrelevance, but the outcome will have significance beyond the dreaming spires. A...
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From poor pay to flexible fees 1
Your article "Top-ups may fund pay rises" (May 6) implies that students from disadvantaged backgrounds will be getting a raw deal if the extra cash is largely used to attract and keep tip-top...
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From poor pay to flexible fees 2
The temptation to produce league tables is irresistible, however misleading they might be. Your table purporting to show what percentage of fee income higher education institutions would spend on...
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A little less Frank 1
It is time that the ill-informed and emotional outbursts by Frank Furedi and others criticising programmes to develop the teaching of new lecturers were confronted with some published evidence (...
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A little less Frank 2
Frank Furedi manages the difficult task of being even more insubstantial and baseless than your original report on Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education programmes ("Lecturers bored by lessons...
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A little less Frank 3
Recent letters on the "ineffectiveness" of teaching courses for new staff and the constant drone of Frank Furedi make me question the effectiveness of some UK academics as researchers. Selective...