High-tech alone will not catch out cheats
Electronic methods of detecting plagiarism are not a magic solution, a new report warns. A good-practice guide prepared for the Joint Information Systems Committee says that electronic communication...
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Last month in The THES Peter Collett argues that Big Brother was more than a game show. Big Brother is a phenomenal media event deserving our scholarly attention, and perhaps it does present unique...
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Get a result or accept defeat
If Scotland sees a repeat of last year's results debacle, it could destroy the country's Higher Still qualifications system, warns David Raffe. Next Tuesday (August 14) candidates are due to receive...
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Why I ...recommend the the joys of obfuscation
Obfuscation and a lack of clarity can be useful for academic authors. The more confused and unclear your style, the more chance you have of convincing at least some readers that what you have to say...
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Size is not everything
A merged AUT-Natfhe would be big, but it might lack coherence, argues Philip Burgess. A single union for higher education is one thing, but a merger between the Association of University Teachers and...
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You need tunnel vision to spend summer here
Why are particle physicists from all over the world converging on a three-and-a-half-mile tunnel in Illinois? In the third in our series on what researchers do in summer, Terry Wyatt reports from...
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Tevatron: how, what and why
In the Tevatron, protons and their antimatter equivalents, antiprotons, are accelerated at high energies in opposite directions around a three-and-a-half-mile loop. Scientists - including Wyatt -...
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Cutting edge
The hip but scarcely respectable art of tattooing deserves to be written up not written off, argues Nicholas Thomas Tattooing has been practised in many parts of the world at many times, and today is...
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Project to cut EU colleges' fuel bills
Universities in the European Union could cut their energy usage by 40 per cent, a study funded by the European Commission has found. It examined more than 40 case studies of innovative schemes that...
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UWE bid to develop media hub
An innovative "ideas space" and a rent-a-desk scheme will form part of a business incubation unit for digital media and e-commerce start-ups in Bristol. The unit is being built by the University of...
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AUT could rule out outsiders for post
External candidates for the vacant post of general secretary of the Association of University Teachers could be blocked by the union's executive committee. The potential bar on outsiders emerged as...
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Inquiry criticises police action at student protest
An inquiry has criticised the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for "inappropriate conduct" while trying to quell student protests during an international summit on global trade at the University of...
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Middlesex attacks Natfhe's course closure claims
Middlesex University this week attacked lecturers' union Natfhe - which claimed the institution risked weakening student diversity and equal opportunities by the closure of a course. The race and...
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Why all they want is to be left alone with the box
Apathy about politics and the community in the US is being echoed in the UK. Michael Young explores disengagement. Robert Putnam is a Harvard professor of public policy who has made Bowling Alone a...
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West weighs up theworth of its values
East Meets West