EU fights Austrian quota
The European Commission plans to sue Austria over the country's quota system for university places. In January, the Commission took action against Austria over its system of restricting placements...
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Motion supports sacked lecturer
Peter Hantz, one of two Hungarian lecturers dismissed from a self-proclaimed multicultural university in Romania for putting up notices in Hungarian, has had his case accepted by the Council of...
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Who got that job?
Simon Loretz, research fellow, Centre for Business Taxation, Said Business School, Oxford University Job advertised in The Times Higher , July 21, 2006 The way a Government taxes businesses operating...
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HSE to act on staff stress
A report on a failure at Leeds to tackle academic work pressure is a warning to all institutions. Tony Tysome reports Hopes have been raised that all universities will improve working conditions...
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Long academic holidays 'a myth'
Many academics take only two weeks' holiday a year, according to a Loughborough University academic who says it is 15 years since he had more than a fortnight's leave. Russ Bowman, professor of...
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Doing research is a key element of learning
Talk of education for a knowledge economy is hollow if students take no part in scholarly inquiry, argues Alan Jenkins. In the frenzied discussions about whether the research assessment exercise...
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A job to lie for
New graduates to the jobs market are a saucy, deceitful bunch, according to a survey that highlights the lengths to which they are prepared to go to get their perfect job. The survey by Pareto Law, a...
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Dundee cheesecake
Students at Dundee University, however, would be able to rest on their laurels. Dundee, which was recently ranked among the world's seven most intelligent cities because of its scientific expertise,...
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Student blues
Students on Napier University's new masters course in creative advertising are on the fast track. Tutor Susie Henry, a former director with Saatchi and Saatchi, the architects of Margaret Thatcher's...
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A perch for posterity
An extinct Australian parrot, last seen alive 80 years ago, has reared its brightly plumed head at Aberdeen University. The zoology museum has taken charge of a case of mounted Australian birds, one...
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Colossal Crisis of conscience and climate
If Bert Fry, the last true countryman of The Archers, had been given a chance to comment, he would surely have something pungent to say on the matter. Instead, the best one hears about climate change...
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Quest for national identity is mistake
What unites us is our civic culture and pragmatic common interest, suggests Bernard Crick, not romantic notions of 'Britishness' Britishness suddenly bursts upon us, mainly impelled by politicians...
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Computing is the new 'Queen of the Sciences'
Those concerned for the future of computer science in the UK need have no fear, argue Yorick Wilks et al. The debate has been passionate and well informed, raging on online mailing lists and academic...
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Have our udders shrunk again?
Like cows bred for a bigger milk yield, Tim Birkhead believes that academics bred for large research outputs have lost much of what made them productive in the first place I was amused, saddened and...
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We have ways of making you talk
Badly led seminars can lead to students not participating or not turning up at all. But, says Harriet Swain, there are a number of ways to ensure that attendance is high and that a good debate takes...