New sky line: Lincoln university
(Photograph) - New sky line: Lincoln University welcomes its first students this week, writes Chris Johnston. The project is the first purpose-built city-centre campus in Britain in 25 years. Public...
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Bob a job
A notice at Birmingham University offers commerce and social sciences students Pounds 12.50 a day to meet "prospective students and parents". Someone has added the word "their" before "parents"...
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Exploited exports
Planning a spot of winter sun? Seduced by brochures displaying a bronzed couple strolling hand in hand across a beach? Beware. You have fallen not only for sea and sun but for sexual stereotyping. A...
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AUT meeting
The Association of University Teachers and signatories to an agreement aimed at improving career management of contract researchers, are to hold a conference next week to discuss the implications....
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Own quality system means Scots suffer
Maxwell Irvine, who this week left his post as principal of Aberdeen University to become vice chancellor of Birmingham University, claims Scottish higher education institutions are suffering through...
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Wonderful weirs save Cornish wetlands from running out of water
The largest lowland heath and wetlands area in the south-west has been saved from running dry by Plymouth University researchers. Geographical scientists and civil engineers from the university have...
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Harvard toppled as pick of pops
Harvard University has been toppled from first place in the US News and World Report magazine's rankings of America's best colleges after a six-year tenure. Harvard fell from first to third behind...
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Terms of no endearment
Ursula Riniker (THES, September 13) seems to imagine that poor employment terms in United Kingdom universities are confined to foreign language assistants. In fact, they apply to the growing numbers...
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Big wheels of justice
Academics are increasingly used as expert witnesses. But when esoteric debate spills over from classroom to courtroom, tempers can fray, as Martha Nussbaum and John Finnis discovered (below). John...
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Dial link gives access to Janet
A nationwide dial-up service will soon allow all universities and research councils to access the academic research computer network Janet. The service will be provided by Warrington-based Internet...
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Under wraps
(Photograph) - Under wraps: 1,600 work places in the library at Sheffield Hallam University's Pounds 14 million Adsetts Centre will be wired for information technology. The centre will be formally...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a Victorian novel with a stake in Whitby: "Van Helsing summed it all up as he said, with our boy on his knee:- 'We want no proofs; we ask none to believe us! This...
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A knight recalls his days
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Battle over the little big ones
To Change Them Forever - Education for Extinction - They Called it Prairie Light