Something to put the wind back in your cerebral sails
Alain Gadian is spending a year researching wild winds on desolate islands. In the second of our series on sabbaticals, he explains why some academics switch jobs after taking a break from the...
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Funding that sought after sabbatical
The Leverhulme Trust, which considers requests from all academic fields, is spending more than Pounds 2.5 million on two schemes to give hard-pressed academics time for research. The Leverhulme Study...
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A new subject is just a subtle shift away
An academic "can get typecast" and feel "pigeon-holed" by staying within one narrow specialism in order to climb the careerladder, says John Ramsden, professor of modern historyat Queen Maryand...
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A party animal with a social phobia
Can psychotherapy help apes as well as people? Steve Farrar reports on the case of a bonobo that breaks new research ground Harry Prosen will never forget the first time he met Brian. It was not as...
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College pension funds put your money where your ethics are
Tobacco companies could be hit as pension funds inch towards ethical investment. Gideon Burrows reports From this month, university employees will be able to find out if their pension contributions...
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Agony aunt
Q Most students have gone home and on my desk is a backlog of work. The trouble is, I don't feel motivated with summer here. What can I do? A Plan to give yourself a break - but not until you have...
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How to..Get more kids to go to college
WHAT: More than 500 ten to 11-year-olds attended the Meteor Programme summer school at the University of Teesside. WHY: Only 5per cent of young people in central Middlesbrough go on to higher...
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Dancing masters
(Photograph) - Members of the Birmingham Royal Ballet graduated from Birmingham University with a masters of arts in applied dance in education and the community. Photograph by NEWS TEAM...
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Naval inspection
(Photograph) - Dennis Wheeler, reader in geography at Sunderland University, is heading a team of experts from Spain, France and Holland looking at the naval logs of ships' captains from 1750-1850...
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Laurie Taylor Column
Do come in and sit down. Thank you vice-chancellor. Now, Mr Casbolt, we have invited you to attend this meeting of the University Plagiarism Committee because of the distinct suspicion among several...
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Here's hoping for a fairer share
On average, graduates pay more tax than the national average. So, too, do McDonalds' franchises. If generation of tax revenue justifies degree subsidies, as Tim Curtin claims, state aid to burger...
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Too liberal a dose
Alan Ryan does not believe that "liberalism was ever more than contingently connected to laissez-faire in economics" ("A history of hostility to power", Books, THES, June 23). It would probably be...
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Sources of research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk ANGLO-GERMAN SOCIETY www.agf.org.uk Research projects The research...
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Grado
Marine archaeologists at the University of Trieste say that a Roman cargo ship found this week near Grado on the Adriatic dates back to 200 BC. Ship and cargo are said to be intact.
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Buenos Aires
Argentine education minister Juan Jose Llach has assured university teaching and administrative staff that their salaries will be unaffected by the government's decision to "cut its education budget...