Don's diary: No escape from the suits
1970s 1971 : Take on part-time teaching at the local college. Seems like fun, and the students are much nicer than the "suits" I meet in the day job. 1972 : Interview for a full-time post. Principal...
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Raise your half-empty glass
Unions exist to stir things up, and often their leaders suffer from delusions of omnipotence. Not so Paul Mackney, general secretary of lecturers' union Natfhe, who gave guests at a House of Commons...
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Holy inappropriate?
The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee will go to great lengths to court controversy. Even to Italy, it seems. Not content with stoking a row with the Government this week over open-...
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Be afraid...
Paul Boateng, the Treasury's chief secretary, may have been making smooth assurances to the Science and Technology Committee last week that his department is not trying to seize control of the UK...
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Seats of learning
Anyone who feels that research isn't glamorous clearly isn't working at the University of West of England or University College London. The two institutions announced this week that they have forged...
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Why I... believe drug prohibition is futile and should be scrapped
This is the second essay I have written on prohibition. My first was completed 50 years ago for a school history project. As a consequence of my grandfather having been the American federal judge who...
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Cash with strings...
... is what's on offer to UK science. John Enderby notes that there is no such thing as a free lunch. The research councils are vying to get the biggest slices of the Government's forthcoming science...
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One-trick pony won't win race
RAE mania holds back the UK in World University Rankings, insists Chris Barnard. Now hardly seems an auspicious time to approve of things American. Neither does one want to endorse yet another tier...
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That most irritating of itches: the email alert
Tim Birkhead is suffering from information overload - perhaps it's time to switch off I have just returned from a five-day conference. Back in the office I turn on my computer with a sense of dread....
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Keep cool if a hot job's at stake
It might be unwise to betray nervousness or to be a smart alec in an interview, but annoying a panel member could turn out to be a clever move, says Harriet Swain. There are two good things about...
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My worst nightmare
Never assume, however thoroughly you've tested it, that technology will work as it should - especially at the start of the academic year. During induction week, I scheduled a training session in a...
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Volunteer to be neighbourly
Animosity between "town and gown" is a perennial problem, but in Leeds it came to a head in the 1990s when the "studentisation" of areas of the city led to serious criticism of the students, who were...
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Teacher audit
Name : Paul Harris Age : 45 Job : Professor of screen media, University of Abertay Dundee Salary : Professorial scale (up to c. £57,000) Qualifications : Diploma in visual communication, Birmingham...
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Hiring blitz as QMUC seeks title
Queen Margaret University College has created four new posts as part of a recruitment drive ahead of its bid to become a fully fledged university. More posts are expected to be announced shortly. The...
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Who got that job?
Li Zhang Lecturer in wireless multimedia, School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Institute of Integrated Information Systems, Leeds University Job advertised in The Times Higher , February...