Past Masters
David Weatherall pays tribute to the man who asked him to eat asparagus in the name of research, Cyril Clarke When I obtained my medical degree from Liverpool University in 1956 I was, as cell...
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Past masters
Composer Jonathan Harvey recalls his former maestros. I liked several of my Cambridge tutors well enough, but I did not get the sort of teaching that I needed. Analysis was rudimentary, the idea of...
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Thou shalt honour thy sources
Jim Parlour argues that if we are going to lecture students on the evils of plagiarism, we ought to be clear about what it is. Wolverhampton University has launched a poster campaign to "warn...
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The reel thing
As Oxford University tardily embraces film as a subject worthy of academic study, Ian Christie assures the traditionally trained that they can feel comfortable with the seductive magic of the cinema...
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Salary secrecy slammed
Many senior academic staff are in the dark about how their pay increases are awarded, according to lecturers' union Natfhe. It has blamed the scrapping of nationally negotiated scales for...
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Mauritius wins loan
The island of Mauritius, a tropical paradise in the Indian Ocean known for its sugar fields, volcanic mountains and white beaches, is to receive a $16 million World Bank loan for higher education....
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Credit card principal axed
South Bristol College governors have sacked their principal for financial misconduct after he used the corporate credit card for personal purchases. David Smetherham, 51-year-old chief executive of...
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Computer science defended
On top of Darrel Ince's proposal (MM, March 10) to disband computer science departments came news of the poor showing by those departments in HEFCE quality assessments. Readers leapt to the subject's...
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Computer science defended
On top of Darrel Ince's proposal (MM, March 10) to disband computer science departments came news of the poor showing by those departments in HEFCE quality assessments. Readers leapt to the subject's...
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Computer science defended
On top of Darrel Ince's proposal (MM, March 10) to disband computer science departments came news of the poor showing by those departments in HEFCE quality assessments. Readers leapt to the subject's...
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Pay claim launch
Trade union Unison is to launch a claim for an across-the-board rise of Pounds 20 a week for all its 40,000 members in higher education. It has contrasted the six-figure sums paid to vice chancellors...
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Pension funds change horses
Three Hong Kong universities are racing to avert a cash crisis involving their multi-billion dollar retirement funds after the government introduced new regulations on pension plans. The rules have...
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Lecturers for hire move in on universities
The agency preparing a national database of self-employed college lecturers for hire is planning to move into higher education. Education Lecturing Services aims to register up to 400,000 lecturers...
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Bungle of County Hall sale
The Government's embarrassment over the sale of County Hall to a Japanese property group which may now not develop it was inflicted by their acceptance of narrow commercial criteria for the sale, a...