Research freedom is part of the job
Trinity College lecturers are vindicated in a battle against 'managerial intrusion'. John Gill reports
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New criteria aimed at controlling "merger mania" are likely to be brought in by the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council. PCFC officials are concerned that mergers with universities will mean a...
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News in brief
National Environment Research CouncilEye in the sky helping Earth belowA new centre dedicated to using satellite observations for environmental research has been launched by the Natural Environment...
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Funding fallout creates wide smiles and gnashing of teeth
To the RAE victors, the spoils, but institutions that saw their funding slashed last week in the allocations for 2009-10 are counting the costs. Times Higher Education staff report
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Big spender: Qatar aims to take place in global order
UK university in talks as emirate looks to leapfrog established systems. John Gill reports from Doha
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Overseas briefing
United StatesIt only takes a minuteA 60-second "microlecture" can work just as well as a longer class when paired with assignments and group discussion, a US college has claimed. San Juan College, a...
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High-impact performances
The AHRC wants help refining its proposals, but its integrated vision of research will not shift, Zoë Corbyn writesA new approach to the funding of arts and humanities research would effectively...
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Grant winners
THE BRITISH ACADEMYThe British Academy has awarded 23 conference support grants, worth a total of almost £160,000, to UK scholars. The grants aim to promote dialogue and exchange within the...
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Softly, softly is the way to defuse the madding crowd
The gentle touch is best when policing the masses, a UK academic has found. Melanie Newman reports
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Kin beyond our ken?
Bill George on data supplied by the Hubble Telescope and the implications for what may be found on extra-solar planets
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To remain competitive, we must play to our strengths in research
The UK's elite universities help industry and wider society to prosper. They need to be funded appropriately, argues Roy Anderson
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The week in higher education
A historian has claimed that the Kremlin may be behind a decision by a Russian publishing house to ditch his latest book, about life under Joseph Stalin.The publisher, Atticus, insisted it made a...
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Russell Group counts the cost as allocations slash the funding available per researcher
Amount for elite staff cut by £6,000, Times Higher Education analysis shows. Zoë Corbyn reports
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It's clearly a place of excellence, but is it a pocket or an island?
When a large number of departments in teaching-led universities were discovered by the 2008 research assessment exercise to be producing world-class work, a new phrase quickly entered the higher...
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'Super panels' let arts off easy
Hefce board member says science subjects were held to higher standards, writes Zoë Corbyn