First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, greets the opening of the Referendum season with a cult work by a writer who, in spite...
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Chairs
Lancaster University Paul Heelas, author of the New Age Movement, has been appointed to a personal chair in religion and modernity. University of Oxford Richard Brent, professor of computing sciences...
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Sir Ron's forgotten legion
Postgraduate students face a bleak, debt-ridden future after being overlooked by the Dearing committee, argues Ewan Gillon Sir Ron Dearing's review has provided us with a blueprint for higher...
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Appointments
City University, London Paul Newall, economist, former lord mayor and chancellor of the university during centenary year (1993/94) has been appointed pro chancellor and chairman of council,...
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Honorary Degrees
University of Leeds DEng: Gerald DiPiazza, senior vice president of M/A-COM Inc, he also helped design and build TELSTAR. DLitt: Nayantara Sahgal, novelist and political journalist, Indian delegate...
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Brilliance and the barrier to a great career
This academic life is fraught with difficulty - jobs are scarce, insecure and increasingly clogged up with teaching and administrative duties that prevent our brightest minds from pursuing their...
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Off the ladder
This academic life is fraught with difficulty - jobs are scarce, insecure and increasingly clogged up with teaching and administrative duties that prevent our brightest minds from pursuing their...
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On the ladder
This academic life is fraught with difficulty - jobs are scarce, insecure and increasingly clogged up with teaching and administrative duties that prevent our brightest minds from pursuing their...
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The first step
This academic life is fraught with difficulty - jobs are scarce, insecure and increasingly clogged up with teaching and administrative duties that prevent our brightest minds from pursuing their...
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Journey from the Street of Shame
This academic life is fraught with difficulty - jobs are scarce, insecure and increasingly clogged up with teaching and administrative duties that prevent our brightest minds from pursuing their...
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The hobby work horses
This academic life is fraught with difficulty - jobs are scarce, insecure and increasingly clogged up with teaching and administrative duties that prevent our brightest minds from pursuing their...
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Invisible minds, visible bodies
Paula Gould won this year's Minerva Prize, sponsored by The THES, for an essay describing the sexism suffered by Victorian women. (This is an extract) "Learned women attract little attention as long...
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Mistress of her destiny
Postgraduate student Sue Wilks claims she faces discrimination over the title of her degree Bachelors and masters degrees signify a period of disqualification when women were not allowed to achieve...
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The ties still bind
The 1989 Children Act stressed that divorced couples could not dissolve their parental duties as easily as their wedding vows. But Carol Smart finds families are failing to make cooperative parenting...
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A work of art that's brutal to work in
Cambridge's Judge Institute has a shiny new building, but what is it like to work in?Kate Worsley finds out from lecturer Jane Collier Academics struggling along in substandard accommodation may envy...