Women crack glass ceiling
Women are winning their struggle for promotion in UK universities as men turn their backs on a lecturing career, new figures suggest. The latest staffing figures from the Higher Education Statistics...
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Resist lure of reality TV, warns academic
David Wilson, the criminologist who resigned from the Big Brother television show last week, has warned academics not to participate in reality TV programmes. Professor Wilson, a former prison...
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In the news: Greg Philo
Glasgow University professor Greg Philo, who has been putting the media under the spotlight for 30 years, was in the limelight himself this week as he underwent a series of gruelling media interviews...
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Appointments
Reading University's business school has appointed Philip Allmendinger , former head of the department of land economy at Aberdeen University, chair of planning studies; and Michael Ball , who...
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Visitor quits in union dispute
Bust-up between AUT and management at Swansea escalates into 'all-out war'. Tony Tysome reports. A top barrister acting on behalf of the Queen as visitor to the University of Wales Swansea has...
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Commons committee rounds on top mandarin for gaps in knowledge
The new director-general of higher education has worrying gaps in his knowledge and a lack of awareness of some of the key challenges facing the sector, according to a select committee report...
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Newby on rack over 'scandalous' bonuses for online university staff
Thirty-one members of the UK eUniversity's staff, including the sales and marketing director, were paid performance-related bonuses of between 10 and 50 per cent of their salary while running the...
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Next week
Brain drain or brain gain? What's really happening? Exclusive new research. Also Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke: Is the neo-conservatives' time up? On the money : The Cambridge Economic History of...
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Review by peers 'good for science'
Study shows current system works. Anna Fazackerley reports. Academics should stop complaining about the pressures of the peer-review system and start working to educate the public about its...
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Joyces: hands off Molly's missing marks
The editor of a new reader-friendly version of James Joyce's Ulysses has conceded defeat to the author's grandson Stephen in the battle for Molly Bloom's apostrophes. A New Reader's Edition of...
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Student cheat figures shock
As many as a third of all undergraduates could be plagiarising from the internet, a new study suggests. In a paper for next week's inaugural Plagiarism Advisory Service (Pas) conference, Fintan...
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Back animal lab, top surgeon demands
One of the UK's top brain surgeons this week attacked the Government for failing to defend animal research at Oxford University as evidence of a growing campaign by animal rights extremists came to...
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Red tape drives Smithers private
Buckingham University, Britain's only private university, is gearing up to recruit more high-profile academics after the capture of Alan Smithers from Liverpool. Terence Kealey, the vice-chancellor,...
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Website to trace stolen artefacts
An online "identity parade" of looted ancient statues has been compiled by UK academics in the hope of tracing treasures missing from archaeological sites and monuments in Albania, writes Paul Hill....
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Exam reforms edge nearer
Key elements of the planned ten-year reform of GCSE and A levels could be brought forward to help universities distinguish between the best candidates and to deter institutions from setting their own...