MPs insist funding cut decision lacks evidence
MPs have accused the Government of failing to base its policies on evidence after its decision to cut funding to students studying for second degrees.A report from the House of Commons Innovation,...
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'Performance management is a waste of time,' claims HR professor
Programme of investment in HR has not improved sector's effectiveness. Melanie Newman reports
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National Rankings in Neuroscience and Behaviour, 1998-2008
Data provided by Thomson Scientific from its Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 1998–29 February 2008
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Research of substance
Tara Brabazon on the cutting-edge centres that generated a new way of doing research
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Dealing with ‘grievances’ about dismissals
Since the introduction of the statutory dispute resolution procedures in 2004, employers have grappled with the question of when an employee complaint must be treated as a grievance, to comply with...
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Gloria Monday: A campus corner that is for ever medieval
The v-c’s glorious IT dreams always fail in reality, laments Gloria Monday as she reaches for her pen and paper
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'God is dead' - theology professor
In a shock interview with The Poppletonian, our long-serving Professor of Theology, Gordon Greenwich, has confessed that he is no longer able to believe in the existence of God.
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Enormous greedy babies
Spoon-fed students won't fend for themselves at university, says Tim Birkhead
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Off Piste: Fools! I will destroy you all!
Scientists in popular culture are inevitably mad, bad and dangerously keen on bubbling vials of ghastly liquids. Should this bother us? Yes, John Gilbey cackles fiendishly
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Leader: Bottom line: it's worth it
We can't allow rivalries to derail the effort to make research sustainable by getting funders to pay full economic costs
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Frank Gould, 1937-2008
Frank Gould, the former vice-chancellor of the University of East London who saw the institution through both good times and bad, has died after a long battle with cancer.Professor Gould, who led the...
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Oxford continues its reign at the top of league tables
Cambridge rules the subject rankings but still loses ground to its rival. John Gill reports
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Good God, there is more to faith than IQ 1
Richard Lynn has found that fewer academics believe in God than does the general population ("High IQ turns academics into atheists", 12 June). I would expect those with higher IQs to have developed...
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Good God, there is more to faith than IQ 2
To suggest that low belief in religion is due simply to high intelligence is to oversimplify a complex causation that includes, as all behaviour does, inherited and environmental factors. Among the...
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Good God, there is more to faith than IQ 3
Does IQ explain academics' lack of belief?: does presumption of an affirmative answer suggest lack of academic rigour?Gavin Wort, Newcastle upon Tyne.