Peep's Diary
GOOD SPORTS AND BELATED PRIZES Lukewarm applause and a smile through gritted teeth is the usual response to missing out on a prestigious award - especially when you expected to win. Respect is due,...
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Finding solutions on and off the shelf
In a wired world, libraries are keen to adapt their services to researchers' needs, but more dialogue is needed, says Michael Jubb. When Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia in 1819,...
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PhD quotas may not improve research quality
Concentrating political science studentships in a few institutions could be counterproductive, argues Andrew Dobson. In the Economic and Social Research Council's recent assessment of UK politics and...
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Hope for pension top-ups
Retired academics who have taken career breaks or time off for childcare may have a case against their universities if they were not told about a scheme for buying back their lost pension...
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Who got that cash?
A device to enable the early diagnosis of bone conditions in premature babies is to be developed by an academic at Hull University. Chris Langton has secured a £134,000 grant from Action Medical...
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Scots cash squeeze puts staff and courses at risk
Cautious university chiefs say that redundancies and programme cuts could be on the cards, reports Tariq Tahir. Redundancies and course cuts resulting from the financial squeeze imposed by the recent...
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Edinburgh's Tim O'Shea: "It is down to the success of the university"
Both Edinburgh University principal Tim O'Shea and his vice-principal, John Savill, have been knighted in the New Year's honours. Professor O'Shea told The Times Higher : "Things have gone well at...
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Sterling support: Birmingham's Orgill and University of the West of Scotland's McInally recognised
Support and administative staff are among the unsung heroes of higher education recognised in the New Year's honours list. Among them is David McInally, the University of the West of Scotland's...
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Parting is always such sweet sorrow
From: The Office of the Chief Executive and Vice-Chancellor Subject: New Year's Message Dear Colleagues, Yes, another old year draws slowly to a close and another new year starts to beckon. But...
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Tim Birkhead
A colleague of mine recently finished writing a textbook. As I leafed through the huge pile of page proofs on his desk, he told me how his publisher (an academic publisher no less) had asked him what...
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Leader: Scots' sterling ambitions need a budget to match
Scotland is understandably proud of its universities. They produce 1 per cent of the world's published research despite the country providing only 0.1 per cent of the planet's population. Five of...
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What has age to do with ability? 1
There is one persistent and overlooked problem within the academic recruiting structure - age discrimination. My experience is not unique: I know of five other colleagues in Bristol in a similar...
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What has age to do with ability? 2
I agree with Guy Brown that ageing is the challenge facing our society in this century and that research to overcome that challenge is grossly underfunded ("Long life's journey into death", December...
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We're being skewed
It is so easy to expose Universities and Colleges Employers Association misinformation. Jocelyn Prudence (Letters, December 14) repeats her claim of an average or mean salary for full-time teachers...
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Citation ideas 1
So much noise and so little signal and sense and reflection ("Hepi has 'doubt' over citations", December 14). "Quality" versus "impact": what have the research assessment exercise panels been...