Women choose shorter conference presentations: study
Research shows female scholars opting for short talks over long ones, even at a gender-balanced event
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Fees crisis to hit Northern Ireland
Cutbacks of up to 15% loom if gap cannot be plugged by Stormont
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Open doors make a fairer world, says José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
‘Non-political’ visa policy, Spanish language and top business schools are key to Spanish sector’s future, according to Spain’s former leader
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Call to end ‘postcode lottery’ of tuition fee cash for pensions black hole
UEL vice-chancellor says it is wrong that students’ money is used to prop up local government schemes
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UUK obstinacy has forced UCU marking boycott
Sally Hunt explains why union members are taking action this week over changes to pensions
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Hundreds of PhD students chasing every early career post
THE study reveals intense competition for roles at Russell Group universities, despite new openings for those seeking a research career
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Vincent Barnett, Caroline Flurey, Nigel Rodenhurst, Sir David Bell and Bruce J. Schulman
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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World in brief - 6 November 2014
Source: AlamyUnited StatesObama supports affirmative actionUS President Barack Obama has expressed support for affirmative action. He told The New Yorker that if certain universities “do it in a...
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News in brief - 6 November 2014
Scottish pensionsControl ‘should be fully devolved’Scotland’s largest teaching union has suggested that control over a lecturers’ pension scheme could be devolved to Holyrood. The Educational...
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The week in higher education - 6 November 2014
As Times Higher Education went to press, a marking boycott due to start on 6 November by members of the Universities Superannuation Scheme still looked likely to go ahead. It had been hoped that...
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Searching for solid ground
Aftershocks following the austerity reforms of 2010 are still being felt, with mature students particularly hard hit
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House of spirits
The University of Cambridge’s Combination Rooms do seem to be fertile grounds for ghost-hunters (“Schools that have ghouls”, Features, 30 October).The psychologist Sir Frederic Bartlett reported that...
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Giving is getting research
May we politely point out to Charles Keidan (“Good for the money”, Features, 23 October) that research on philanthropy has been well established in British historical scholarship for many years.In...
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Grade grudges
In my last couple of years working at The Open University, I was conscious of a rise in expressions of disappointment from students about what they considered to be a low grade in an assignment (“...
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Audit culture costs
In response to the feature on the monitoring of academics (“Mass observation”, 23 October), the Association of Research Managers and Administrators was pleased to see that Frances Buck, co-founder of...