Women tackle ivory tower trade-off...
Women often find an academic career incompatible with the rest of their life, according to a group of professors, students and retired academics who, in a collection of essays and poems, regret how...
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...but hit 'cement wall' objections as ad favours female applicants
A row has broken out in Denmark between government ministers over positive discrimination in an advertisement for professorships, writes Michael de Laine in Køge. The advertisement is for posts in...
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Access to funding opens up in initiative to promote EU unity studies
A range of European Union grants promoting studies of European law, politics, human rights and associated topics are to be grouped together in a programme to which any higher education institution...
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Indonesians face fees as cuts bite
Indonesia's university rectors have responded to a cut in government subsidies by introducing upfront admission fees and moving to replace the national higher education entrance examinations. The...
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Holocaust revision historian faces jail
French historian Jean Plantin last week won an appeal to restore two postgraduate degrees that had been withdrawn on grounds of their Holocaust-related revisionism. But within days of the decision,...
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Michigan ruling reaffirms drive for student diversity
Affirmative action is not perfect but it is the best way to ensure diversity in universities, says Sheldon Elliot Steinbach. The most contentious national issues in the US seem to wind up being...
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Don's diary: 94 books, 30 days, 1 prize
March I am beginning to wonder whether this was such a good idea. Judging the AventisScience Book prize sounded rather prestigious, but looking at the four hugeboxes of books that have just arrived,...
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Grave shortages
Times are hard for universities, so institutions are becoming accustomed to developing novel ways of raising funds. Reading University has decided to sell some of its disused land and has made...
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A full-bore physicist
Some THES readers may have heard about the furore whipped up in the newspapers over a television show called Big Brother. Now, former contestant and physics graduate Jon Tickle is to be offered a...
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Lucky brush with philosophy
Universities may not realise it, but the key to widening participation lies right on their doorstep. David Dunleavey, aged 40, has just graduated from St Andrews University with a degree in...
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Crazy building blocks
Members of the House of Commons select committee on education were in Prague this week to attend the European Access Network's annual conference. While David Chaytor, Labour MP for Bury North, was...
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Why I believe an annual student satisfaction survey is needed
What course should I study and where? This is a decision that affects the life of every prospective student each year. The decision-making process is a difficult one and not undertaken lightly. Those...
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Power to the people
Manchester merger plans threaten democratic university governance, warns Paul Cammack The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and the University of Manchester are due this...
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Shy Di she certainly was not
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Lives in neon lights and unmade beds
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