Design your own V-C and win £500
Can you create the literary v-c for the top-up fees era? The Times Higher is launching a competition for budding authors to write the opening chapter - 2,000 words - of a satirical novel depicting...
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Bond with chemistry
ߣߣÊÓƵ is backing science with cash and support. The UK should take note, says Andrew Holmes Before the introduction of PhD degrees in ߣߣÊÓƵ, most ߣߣÊÓƵns received their doctoral training...
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PhD comes with straitjacket
What's happened to original thought? The doctoral system seems to have killed it off, says Allan Reese The reputation of the UK PhD, widely viewed as a badge of excellence, is becoming precarious....
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I'm terribly sorry, but a fat cat ate my principles
When the money men sweep through the front door, academic integrity slinks out the back, says Valerie Atkinson. There comes a point in the academic year, just hours before degree results are...
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Jobwatch: RAE Supertanker Steerer
Whoever manages the 2008 RAE will have to oversee the selection of 1,000 panel members and the processing of more than 2 million research submissions. Chris Johnston reports One of the biggest...
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Who got that job?
Marc McGee University of Bristol City Solicitor's Educational Trust Lecturer in Contract & Tort Job advertised in The Times Higher , February 6 2004 Marc McGee is living proof that cross-...
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Viva the mock! It's more than a rehearsal
PhD interview practice doesn't mean just a trial run. If done well, it can even help the student refine their thesis, say Penny Tinkler and Carolyn Jackson.
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Mandy Garner asks teachers how they manage. Name : Mohammed Yunis Alam Age : 37 Job : University teacher/research assistant in the department of social sciences...
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QAA fails 'out-of-date' course at Barnsley
A second university-validated degree course at Barnsley College has been failed by quality watchdogs after they found that some teaching material was up to 20 years out of date. In an academic review...
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Nobel laureates to allocate cash
Proposals for a high-powered committee of Nobel prizewinning researchers who will use peer review to agree funding for basic research projects across Europe were unveiled last week by Philippe...
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Tribal aid project wins coveted prize
Helping a remote Amazonian tribe fend off loggers and oil companies using state-of-the-art mapping technology has won a young British anthropologist a prestigious environmental prize. Conrad Feather...
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Limit on degree-awarding powers mooted
The government has unveiled new proposals for granting degree-awarding powers. Under one option, only public institutions would be given indefinite powers, while corporate and private universities...
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Hardbacks and hard drives win some hard cash
The highlight of this year's university rankings is a large jump in spending on libraries and computers - £37 per student. John O'Leary reports Big increases in spending on libraries, computing and...
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How many 'squirrels' would you be given?
League tables have proliferated since the weekly US News and World Report launched its consumer-oriented rankings in 1983. Now the Princeton Review covers the field from the performance of faculty to...
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German rectors rate their rankings
German university rectors are confident that the interactive rankings produced by the national weekly magazine Stern offer a better model than counterparts in the UK and the US. League tables are...