Gary Day
Tuition fees are all very well, but why stop there? Why doesn't the Prime Minister strip the post-1992 institutions of their university status? To: Lucinda Lumley-Bottom, The Torygraph From: Fenton...
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Upfront and downmarket
An annoyed Oxford academic dispatched a tongue-in-cheek email last week to complain that The Times Higher had given Oxford reject Laura Spence a say about her experiences at Harvard. His missive...
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A heavy hint, possibly
A picture of drug control expert David Cowan raising a glass adorns the front page of the in-house magazine of King's College London to mark the academic's role in the testing of athletes heading to...
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No shrinking violets
While Gordon Brown, the Chancellor, talks of introducing austerity measures in Whitehall and swingeing cuts in the number of civil servants, an advertisement has appeared for a new director of...
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Burnt offerings, please
If April is the cruellest month, August is the one most likely to turn academics green with envy as vice-chancellors jet off to warmer climes on holiday. We eagerly await your nominations for the...
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Reunited: Quests for knowledge
1967-71 Malcolm McMahon studied mechanical engineering at Umist. He is Catholic Bishop of Nottingham I visited the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology with my brother, Peter...
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Exterminate - you no longer administrate
The march of machines has Valerie Atkinson contemplating the end of the administrative breed - unless it can adapt The machines take over. There has been a recent spate of fevered activity in which...
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Jobwatch: Building on its strengths
Oxford University's Division of Medical Sciences has three professorial vacancies, and is making the multidisciplinary field of neuroscience a key priority, writes Katie Law Not one, but three...
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Who got that job?
Michael Goodman Lecturer in War Studies, King's College London Job advertised in The Times Higher November 28, 2003 The war studies department at King's College London commands a worldwide reputation...
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Flying the flag for a stress-free campus
In a bid to improve staff and student mental health, some universities are creating sanctuaries out of green spaces. John Camm reports With growing financial and other pressures on students and...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Name : Dominic Malcolm Age : 35 Job : Director of masters programmes, Centre for the Sociology of Sport, Leicester University. Salary : Lecturer B scale (up to £...
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An appeal victory fails to net first
A mature student whose final degree result was less than one percentage point short of first-class honours has been refused an upgrade, even though the university has upheld her complaints about poor...
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Fees drown out 'Cinders'
Postgraduates are the "Cinderellas" of the UK university sector - ignored by the Government in its Higher Education Act and overlooked when it comes to career development, a conference heard this...
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Clone go-ahead
Scientists at Newcastle University made history this week as they were granted the first UK licence to clone human cells, writes Alan Thomson. The Newcastle Human Embryonic Stem Cell Group can now...
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Today's news
Fees deter 70,000 students Nearly 70,000 school-leavers will not go to university as a result of the Government's new tuition fees, according to research released today. Researchers questioned 750...