Employers make £100 pay offer
Higher education employers have offered staff a £100 pay rise for the 2011-12 academic year.
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'We cannot be certain about every step. But the journey will be worthwhile'
The coalition has angered many in higher education by raising the fees cap, cutting grants, making market reforms - and that's all before its White Paper. Here, David Willetts explains its rationale...
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Docked tales
With not only Bleak House but even Peter Rabbit seemingly too long for a texting, tweeting, attention-deficit generation, Valerie Sanders scans her shelves for a lightweight literary canon and asks:...
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With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918
A.W. Purdue examines how the Western Allies went from underdogs to victors in the space of a year
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Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism
Deborah Rogers finds 'fictionish' flair in tales of the erotic lives of 19th-century radicals
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Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists, and Cinema
There were two types of multiple moviegoers in the late 1960s: those who boasted of the number of times they had seen The Sound of Music and those who slipped in at the back of every available...
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Being an Information Innovator
Librarians obsess about silos - stores of bibliographical data that are inhospitable to outside developers, skill sets that are inapplicable beyond the profession, jargon that nobody else understands...
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A Planet of Viruses
A popular account of a once-mysterious evolutionary player sparkles with 'wow' moments, Jon Turney finds
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Women in Leadership: Contextual Dynamics and Boundaries
More than 300 scientists have won a Nobel prize since the honour was established, Karin Klenke notes, but only 10 of them were women. In her latest study of women's leadership, Klenke provides a...
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The Sarkozy Phenomenon
Nicolas Sarkozy's election as president of France in 2007 represented a change of political generation, a point he himself underlined by adopting "rupture" as his campaign slogan and presenting...
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Fees threats won't get us anywhere, Keele v-c says
Head also reaffirms commitment to institution's 'broad-based' heritage. John Morgan reports
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Meeting of minds: we still need that room in Bloomsbury, say UCL vets
Loss of Housman Room would deal grievous blow to interdisciplinary work. Hannah Fearn reports
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News in brief
United StatesFive-year ban for Yale frat boysA Yale University fraternity has been banned from campus for violating undergraduate rules on "harassment, coercion or intimidation" and "imperiling the...
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World cribs from the Texas 10 percenters
But rule designed to reflect diversity has failed in its primary task, Jon Marcus reports
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Aarhus streamlines in search of higher rank
Danish university implements reforms in bid to join European top table. Hannah Fearn reports