Top-dollar scientist is quids in
Fears that Trevor Robbins, one of the biggest names in British neuroscience, was about to jump ship and move to America happily seem to have come to nothing. The prestigious National Institute of...
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Food for thought
There were grumblings at the first annual conference of the Higher Education Acad-emy in Edinburgh last week. The loudest came from stomachs. As if it wasn't punishing enough spending three days...
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No sticking with this plaster
Packing is continuing at the National Union of Students London HQ ahead of its move across town. But the building, it seems, can't wait for them to go. One officer left her desk earlier this week...
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Make firebombing history
And finally, Edinburgh University was sporting its own large banner during the pre-G8 anarchists' demo this week. It read: "The University of Edinburgh would rather not be firebombed, if that's OK."
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Why I...miss the mystery of the old way of recruiting spies
The revelation that the quiet American studying at a university near you might be a trainee spy brought cries of consternation from British anthropologists a few weeks ago ( Times Higher , "CIA...
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The past in their hands
Museums must nurture the young minds captivated by medieval artefacts, says Neil MacGregor How and when did a massive medieval bronze ewer apparently promoting the political cause of Richard II come...
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A lay-by on the road to market
University-business ventures are in desperate need of an R&D rethink, says Simon Davey UK university-business collaboration has been unsuccessful for too long. The UK has an exceptionally...
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Academics get chilli reception at canteen
Trouble is brewing at the University of East Anglia amid claims that academics and students have been barred from their favourite canteen this summer to make way for conference delegates. One...
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Curry foreign favour, UK told
Academics must adapt their courses and teaching methods to better suit international students or lose out in the lucrative global market for overseas students, UK universities have been warned. Rival...
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'If anyone ever deserved an ASBO, it was the young emperor nero'
Ray Laurence, academic consultant to a Sky One drama on ancient Rome, brings the past to yobbish life Ray Laurence will bring the drama of history bang up to date thanks to his work on a television...
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On the move
* Bob Scott, chairman of Greenwich Peninsula Partnership, South London Business and Greenwich Theatre, will become chairman of Trinity Laban on August 1. Gavin Henderson, principal of Trinity College...
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'I was no bully' says McKenna
Gerry McKenna, Ulster University's former vice-chancellor, has revealed that accusations against him of bullying and impairment through alcohol could have been misunderstandings of his heart and...
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Brunel enters fray as AUT rings bell for round 3
A new battle of the ads is being played out in the pages of this week's Times Higher as the Association of University Teachers locks horns with Brunel University over redundancies. The AUT has taken...
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MPs' fury as whips remove Gibson
The House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee appeared on the brink of an extraordinary rebellion this week as furious MPs condemned the Government for removing its chairman, Ian...
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THE FORGOTTEN MAN OF EINSTEIN YEAR Arthur Eddington, the Cambridge astrophysicist who verified the general theory of relativity PLUS Roger Penrose reviews Arthur Miller's Empire of the Stars:...