More stress in pre-92s
Staff in new universities are more likely to suffer from stress and to become ill as a result than their counterparts in old institutions, according to a survey. The study found that university staff...
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Ethical aspects of ICT implants in the human body: opinion presented to the Commission
Brussels, 17 March 2005 The European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE), chaired by the Swedish philosopher, Göran Hermerén, adopted on 16 March 2005 Opinion N...
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Special visas to attract researchers from outside the EU
Brussels, 17 Mar 2005 For Europe to meet the Lisbon and Barcelona targets of increasing research investment and to offset the "brain drain" of recent decades, much more must be done to bring non-EU...
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UK Budget sees announcement of stem cell and science city initiatives
Brussels, 17 Mar 2005 UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown unveiled new initiatives to boost science and innovation on 16 March when he presented to 2005 Budget. Among the new schemes are the...
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Strong showing for Nordic countries in global ICT survey
Brussels, 17 Mar 2005 Four of the six highest ranking positions in the latest ranking of the world's most advanced nations for exploiting information and communication technologies (ICT) are occupied...
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New on CORDIS: FP6 projects looking for additional partners through 'competitive calls'
Brussels, 17 Mar 2005 CORDIS (Community Research and Development Information Service), the EU's official information service on research and innovation, has now added calls for new contractors to...
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Laurie Taylor column
"Future generations will look back on the amount of wasted labour involved in the production of unread academic work with astonishment and contempt" - Colin MacCabe in Critical Quarterly ABSTRACT...
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Leader: Where is the subject focus?
Week by week, Labour's pre-election blueprint for higher education is taking shape. The White Paper on 14-to-19 education has set the stage at entry level, and now the agreements published by the...
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Leader: Safe campus havens
British universities have a proud record for taking in refugee academics and students. The Council for Assisting Refugee Academics, which has been in business for more than 70 years, counts...
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Vision from above is clouded 1
How surprising that a survey confined to vice-chancellors and human resource directors should decide that industrial relations problems in higher education do not lie at their door ("HR report slams...
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Vision from above is clouded 2
So HR and university heads complain about the "cloud cover" between them and middle management and say top management is visionary but middle managers do not find it easy to lead. As very little...
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Vision from above is clouded 3
The Higher Education Policy Institute "slammed" middle managers because their "loyalties often lie primarily with their subject or their teams". Am I missing something? Nigel Morris Lincoln University
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Quota hits top schools
It is not only privately educated students who will be affected by the quotas imposed by the London School of Economics ("LSE sets secret state quota", March 11). This policy will have an adverse...
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Racism clarification
I am writing to correct the impression given in the article "Pay plan 'will stifle' academic freedom" (March 11) that the Oxford University's Student Union is accusing Auckland University of having a...
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Open the archives
While it is interesting that Laurie Taylor can report on Dr Piercemüller's use of the Freedom of Information Act to uncover the reasons for the rejection of his research applications (March 11),...