Surrey to pay up over PhD fiasco
The view of the student as customer is driving up legal costs, reports Phil Baty Surrey University is to pay £12,000 compensation to a woman denied a PhD after seven years' work, even though her...
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Litigation fees top £15m as academic disputes grow
The view of the student as customer is driving up legal costs, reports Phil Baty Universities are spending at least £15 million a year on lawyers to fight off an increasing number of legal challenges...
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Doubly good way to get into circulation
Cross-border, joint supervision of doctoral candidates can have benefits for everyone, says Ruth Morse. Mobility has become one of those undoubted goods to which we all subscribe, and it implies some...
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Jobwatch: can you lead by example?
Alan Thomson finds out why the search is on for lecturers with a creative edge - and a portfolio of work - and the urge to inspire students to follow suit by putting things in writing. Creative...
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Who got that job?
Helen Billington , 42 Faculty of Biological Sciences Learning and Teaching Quality Assurance Officer Coventry University Job advertised in The Times Higher , November 14 2003 Helen Billington gave up...
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Flying in to be a critical friend to the far-flung
As an external examiner for the Highlands you can make a difference to the community once you get past the weather, says James Derounian As the 40-seat aeroplane bumps and gusts towards Edinburgh...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name : Jerry Wellington Age : 54 Job : Professor in the School of Education, Sheffield University. Salary : About £42,000...
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Students forsake post-92 sector
New universities have suffered a large drop in student numbers in the past five years, the extent of which is revealed by data published today by The Times Higher . In contrast, student numbers have...
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V-cs: surplus puts false gloss on university finances
Vice-chancellors have warned that new figures showing an improvement in higher education's finances mask the reality of a continuing cash crisis. Figures released by the Higher Education Statistics...
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AUT to fight on alone in the battle for a better pay deal
Phil Baty looks at how AUT action over the offer on salaries is affecting union members and their students The Association of University Teachers will make a solitary stand in its bid for a better...
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Cash cuts hit Welsh links with business
Funding for the economic and social activities of Welsh universities, including links with businesses, is to be cut in real terms this year despite concerns that the "third mission" budget is already...
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£50m spin-off set to float
Southampton University is to float a major spin-off company this week. The value of Offshore Hydrocarbon Mapping Limited has been estimated at just under £50 million. A spokesperson for Southampton...
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Out with ye olde classics?
Will to Wonka, English is thriving but it isn't all rosy, says Claire Sanders "Under the hot blue sky I walked with my backpack on, on through town, on until I reached the entrance to the station. I...
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'Publishers put our scripts to the top of the pile'
Bath Spa University College runs some of the most successful creative writing courses in the country, at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. As well as a taught MA, which attracts about 40...
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It's very evolved of us to ape a yawn
It might be the bane of the dreary lecture theatre, but research has revealed that the contagious yawn could be a sign of evolution's highest mental states. Psychologists have found a strong...