Come in, Mr X, but please don't shut the door
A bit of respect and openness can help with disruptive students, says Susan Bassnett 5Some teacher friends were telling me the other day about Education Secretary Charles Clarke's controversial...
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Act now! It's access all areas
When it comes to accommodating students with disabilities, put yourself in their shoes and anticipate problems before they arise, says Harriet Swain The new science building has finally been finished...
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My worst nightmare
Several years ago I was due to deliver a two-hour lecture to senior European Union civil servants at the College d'Europe in Bruges. After a very liquid meal the night before, I was made the judge of...
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Walk this way for full support
How can we be sure that student services are effective and valued? From day one, Greenwich University ensures that students are led to our Student Centre, where administrative support and personal...
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Teacher audit
* Name: Nicola Aries * Age: 46 * Job: Senior lecturer and assistant course director (admissions tutor and first-year tutor), Kingston University School of Law. * Salary: About halfway up the senior...
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Union's anger at pay deal
Lecturers' union Natfhe could pull out of pay negotiations across the country if Bournemouth University imposes a package that the union claims would undermine the national framework. Bournemouth is...
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Warwick prepares for the future with fellowships
Warwick University is seeking the next generation of academics by recruiting 14 postdoctoral researchers to academic fellowships. The fellowships, advertised this week in The Times Higher , will...
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Who's in who's out?
OPEN UNIVERSITY The chance to link his research in microbiology to planetary science has tempted Charles Cockell from the British Antarctic Survey to the OU's Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and...
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Today's news
Oxford and Cambridge top world league for science Cambridge and Oxford are the best universities in the world for science, according to a global survey of academics published in The Times Higher...
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Corporation tax credit for research only where research is done in that country is incompatible with article 49 EC: opinion (C-39/04)
Luxembourg, 9 December 2004 C-39/04, Laboratoires Fournier SA v Direction des verifications nationales et internationales Opinion of Advocate General Jacobs on 9 December 2004 (link to English...
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Agenda of the Research Working Party, 13 December
Brussels, 09 Dec 2004 Full text of Document 4664/04 1. International Scientific and Technological Agreements - Brazil: Commission proposal for conclusion doc. 14202/04 RECH 207 PVD 81 AMLAT 86 -...
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Terms of Reference for the COST Technical Committee on Chemistry (link)
Brussels, 09 Dec 2004 Full text of Document 343/04 Suite of documents 343/04 1. The COST Technical Committee on Chemistry, hereinafter referred to as TC, is maintained from the expiration of its...
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Terms of Reference for the COST Technical Committee on Agriculture, Food Sciences and Biotechnology (link)
Brussels, 09 Dec 2004 Full text of Document 342/04 Suite of documents 342/04 1. The Technical Committee on Agriculture, Food Sciences and Biotechnology, hereinafter referred to as the TC, is...
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Terms of Reference of the COST Technical Committee on Telecommunications and Information Science and Technology (link)
Brussels, 09 Dec 2004 Full text of Document 345/04 Suite of documents 345/04 1. The Technical Committee on "Telecommunications and Information Science and Technology", hereinafter referred to as TC-...
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Agenda of the Terms of Reference for the COST Technical Committee on Urban Civil Engineering (link)
Brussels, 09 Dec 2004 Full text of Document 346/04 Suite of documents 346/04 1. The COST Technical Committee on Urban Civil Engineering, hereinafter referred to as TC, is maintained from the date of...