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Handy hints for finance managers are offered in the current issue of University Business . Amid a welter of helpful hints, Joan Thompson, treasurer of Iowa State University, recommends that you paint...
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Use passion to counter culture of compliance
Interdisciplinarity could be key to promoting a culture of debate in our universities, says Stephen Rowland. Critique and contestation are essential features of a democratic educational process. Life...
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£40m lifeline to Aids-ridden SA
South Africa's universities and technikons are to benefit from a shift in British development funding towards tackling an HIV-Aids epidemic that is decimating the region, including its highly...
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Why I... find the research assessment exercise difficult to explain
DCS : Well, mother-in-law, I've got some very good news. M-in-law : Really, what's that? DCS : My department got a 5 in the RAE. M-in-law : What's that? Wife : Oh, don't be silly; he's been talking...
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UUK scores victory in copyright battle
The Copyright Tribunal has ruled in favour of universities in the battle over photocopying royalties. Caroline Davis looks at the tribunal's decisions. After three months' deliberation, the tribunal...
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APPOINTMENTS Royal College of Art Felicity Aylieff , ceramicist and professor of ceramics at Bath Spa University College, has been appointed senior tutor in the RCA's ceramics and glass department....
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Don's Diary
February Attend a long interview with the vice-chancellor in response to my earlier letter asking for a review of my role at the university. After serving more than ten years as dean of school, I...
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In the news: Carmel Hanna
This week's appointment of Carmel Hanna as employment and learning minister in the Northern Ireland Assembly came as a bit of a surprise. Her name had hardly featured in the speculation surrounding...
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Record straighteners
Generous offers of help have deluged the offices of The THES since last week's publication of the results of the research assessment exercise. Compiling a league table based on the results gained by...
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Scientific citations
And now for the results of The THES 's 2001 celebrity scientist competition. The rough-and-ready rankings are based on the total number of direct quotations of at least one sentence published in...
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Peer in running for v-c
Rumours that Lord Browne is a candidate to be the next vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge gained strength last week when he was named in the Cambridge University Reporter . The "people's...
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Lifting cap may exclude more
One of the first victims of widening participation may be social inclusion, says Alex Price. Higher education has never had such a high profile. The government's plan to achieve a 50 per cent...
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Cooperate to contend
Research collaboration in Europe could be the way to compete with the US, says Ian Halliday. It seems appropriate in the week after the research assessment exercise results to turn from a domestic...
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Ministers favour RAE elite
Researchers still do not know how much funding they will receive next year. A compromise reached by funding chiefs last week has pleased no one, while the government has conceded that the top...
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Oxbridge exploits league loopholes
The universities of Oxford and Cambridge boosted their standing in some research assessment exercise league tables through special treatment, writes Alison Goddard. Research-active college staff at...