What about the men?
I was somewhat confused by the claim that professorial posts "elude" women, and the quote that a "glass ceiling effect is still evident" ("Sex parity 50 years off", January 19). According to the...
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Lost in translation
Your report on the University of Central England's research bemoaning media undergraduates' lack of critical readiness ("Students unable to cope with media studies' rigour", January 19) lost much in...
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Equilibrium restored
In his admirable Against the Flow: Reflections of an Individualist , Samuel Brittan observes that he will say nothing about Nash equilibrium - the idea that won John Nash the Nobel Prize for...
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Desperately seeking inspiration
How can academe attract more black students when its street cred lags way behind football and rap music? Angela Foster investigates There are four times as many black footballers as there are black...
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Che didn't need a degree in revolution...
The UK's first masters in activism aims to help its students foster social change, but can such skills be taught? Matt Salusbury finds out Can universities teach people to be activists or is the...
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Who gives a damn...
...about tackling global warming? Despite talk of a volte-face on climate change by Bush, US scientists remain sceptical of his Administration's commitment. Stephen Phillips reports As issues that...
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Today's news
Universities unite for joint physics school Birmingham, Nottingham and Warwick universities today announced the creation of a joint graduate school for physics. The Midlands Physics Alliance, with £3...
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Today's news
Dundee blames planned cuts on pay deal A university's announcement of plans to cut jobs has raised fears that the effects of last year's inflation-busting pay rise for lecturers are starting to bite...
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Research Interchange Grants
Deadline: 21/03/2007
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Research Grants
Deadline: 28/02/2007
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Postdoctoral Study Grants
Deadline: 31/03/2007
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Fellowships in occupational and environmental health
Deadline: 01/04/2007
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Pathology research
Deadline: 01/03/2007
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Today's news
Academics in state over Will Hutton 'race-row' Will Hutton, the author and left-leaning polemicist, is at the centre of a race row after describing a respected Asian professor of economics as a “...
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Today's news
A million more pay top rate as Brown lets allowances lag More than a million extra people have been drawn into the top-rate tax net since Labour took power as a result of Gordon Brown’s failure to...