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Last week in The THES ... Ron Iphofen presented his contract for supervising PhD students. If I am to be your PhD student, please understand the following: * Before you begin supervising me, please...
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Forget copycat management
Universities cannot get their management solutions off the peg, Michael Shattock writes. It is an open secret that the government does not think much of the way universities are managed, but it...
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Underpaid, overlooked
Universities should recognise the value of non-academic support staff, argues Valerie Atkinson. The problems experienced by academic support staff are well known: their increasing isolation; their...
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Bradford plans post-16 hybrid
A groundbreaking higher and further education merger could create the United Kingdom's first "comprehensive" university. The hope is that it may provide a model for collaboration and widening...
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Next week
News: Scotland's credit and qualifications framework: lifelong learning's flexible friend? Features: All in the family: neurologist Oliver Sacks talks family history with his great niece Research:...
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For the record
Cash for Nesta fellows to build on dreams A school teacher who helped dyslexic students with mathematics at Plymouth University while also carrying out research into learning is among the winners of...
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Hodge urges elite institutions to improve participation effort
Heads of elite institutions need to pay more attention to widening participation if the government's targets are to be met, higher education minister Margaret Hodge said this week. But Ms Hodge...
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Libraries face VAT on digital journals
Subscribers to electronic academic journals are facing hefty price increases this autumn as publishers add VAT to their rates. Fred Friend, director of scholarly communication at University College...
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HE 'overfishing' a small pool
Further education funding chiefs this week called on the government to stop ploughing money into universities and expanding undergraduate numbers at the expense of colleges. Learning and Skills...
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Plymouth forges link with Eden
An agreement between Plymouth University and the Eden Project in Cornwall will bring the world's flora within easy reach of plant scientists and students. Representatives of the two organisations...
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Fashion is for wimps ... and for divorcees
The failure of one in three marriages may be a bleak statistic, but it appears to be very good news for men's fashion shops. Researchers at Glasgow Caledonian University's Business School,...
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HSE called in over 'bullying' and stress
The Health and Safety Executive is investigating high levels of stress-related illness among staff at Wolverhampton University. Leaders of Natfhe, the lecturers' union, and Unison, the union for...
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News in brief
Middlesex students demand fees back A group of university students is demanding their fees back after their course was cancelled before they had completed their degrees. The 11 religious studies...
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Union requests visitor for Notts allegation
The visitor has been called in to Nottingham University to investigate allegations of staff bullying, as union leaders launch a university-wide probe into the problem, writes Tony Tysome. An academic...
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Sanger maps out profitable vocation
The electronic scroll display behind the reception desk at the Sanger Institute near Cambridge still flashes up 60 million DNA bases a day. But with the map of the human genome all but complete, the...