You can't trust a warm welcome
Some vice-chancellors may hope for omnipotence, but Cambridge University's Alison Richard seems to have no delusions. In her annual address last week to Regent House, the university's ruling body,...
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Don's diary: I've got UFO under my skin
March 2000 My students have fallen in love with extraterrestrials. They wear T-shirts bearing smiling alien faces, and the little green creatures on their key rings glow when I dim the lights to use...
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Why I... think David Starkey is wrong to dismiss the significance of Scotland's history
A peculiar aspect of the English psyche is a deep-rooted fear of the Scots. From Malcolm III's slave-raiding in the late 11th century to the descent of Scottish football supporters on Wembley in the...
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God is not dead yet
Atheism is in trouble and Richard Dawkins, its champion, is not helping, writes Alister McGrath Is atheism losing its appeal? At first sight, this might seem an absurd question. After all, leading...
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Historians making the front page...
... is not always good news, Maria Misra discovered on a recent visit to India. I will watch at least some of David Starkey's new 20-part series on the British monarchy with interest, even though it'...
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Get out of bed and into a new life
Losing a job can be a crushing blow, but if you take care and get all you are owed, you might see new opportunities once you have picked yourself up, says Harriet Swain. So, you've lost your job. No...
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My worst nightmare
I was delivering my first conference paper as a postgraduate student, and I had prepared my presentation in script form. As I was reading it, I started to stumble over the words. When I tried to say...
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Maths, but knot as they know it
How do you make a "difficult" subject more popular? With educationists bemoaning a crisis in maths, the Centre for the Popularisation of Mathematics at the University of Wales in Bangor certainly has...
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Department audit
Nigel Hemmington , head of school, gives the lowdown on services management at Bournemouth University. Total number of academic staff : 70 Permanent academic staff : 50 Number on fixed-term contracts...
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Academe has poor record on ethnicity
Ethnic minorities are seriously underrepresented in higher education, with some subjects registering no ethnic-minority professors and less than a handful of senior staff, according to a Times Higher...
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'Boy Scouts' at Defra seek independent adviser
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs may turn to another academic to chair its Science Advisory Council after losing Roy Anderson to the Ministry of Defence this month. The council...
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Who got that job?
Elspeth Broady Head of School of Languages faculty of education and sport Brighton University Job advertised in The Times Higher , May 30, 2003 A-level students are turning away from modern languages...
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Today's news
Manchester merger creates UK's biggest university The new University of Manchester, with more than 36,000 students, will become Britain's biggest when the Queen hands over its royal charter today....
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COST (European Cooperation in Scientific and Technological Research) in the European Research Area (link)
Brussels, 21 Oct 2004 Full text of Document 313/04 Suite of documents 313/04 Subject: To position COST in the European Research Area (ERA) - report by the JAF Rapporteur for Task 2 Delegations will...
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MoU for the Implementation of COST E46, "Improvements in the Understanding and Use of De-Inking Technology" (link)
Brussels, 21 Oct 2004 Full text of Document 312/04 Suite of documents 312/04 Attached is the abovementioned Memorandum of Understanding signed in Brussels on 29 September 2004 by Finland, France and...