Paper binned after backlash over 'feathering nests' claim
Executives' document criticises 'talking shops' and 'avoiding responsibility'. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Hundreds of Sheffield staff opt for severance
More than 300 staff at the University of Sheffield have volunteered to quit their jobs and are to leave the institution by the end of November.The university will save £13 million as a result of the...
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Best Wank and Gaza: this year’s top exam howlers
Rebecca Attwood looks at the student bloopers that reduced their tutors to tears
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Daytime TV: Moved to action
A documentary about benefits makes Gary Day uncomfortable. Thank goodness for Timothy Spall
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Top Asia-Pacific institutions in material science
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 1999-30 April 2009
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Holiday campus news
Visitors to the Poppleton campus are reminded that tours of the Vice-Chancellor's house will take place every weekday afternoon at 2pm. Admission is £5.00 and ticket-holders are requested to stay...
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Study leave: a right, not a privilege
Tim Birkhead dreams of time to work, free from day-to-day interruptions
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Off Piste: Stitches through time
Sara Schley first turned to knitting to fill time during a summer break from college, but it has since become an integral part of her life
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Leader: We must adapt to survive
Students no longer have to travel to get a Western degree as UK education centres are setting up overseas in a global market
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From where I sit - Between a rock and a hard place
Where I sit is getting awkward these days. I find myself caught in the middle of an increasingly acrimonious debate between faculty and administrators as financial pressures are creating a perfect...
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Peter Dunnill, 1938-2009
Peter Dunnill, a leading biochemist who contributed to the national debate on tackling swine flu right up until the end of his life, has died.He was born in Harrow on 20 May 1938 and studied at...
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HR's union rhetoric is stuck in the 1980s 2
The "conservative, fearful culture" that is "holding universities back" is not the creation of campus trade unions. Rather, it is due to the reluctance of university managements to address the long-...
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Exam boards out of touch 1
So the A-level results have been released for 2009 and show a 97 per cent pass rate. There are all sorts of comparisons that we can make with the pass rates of 25 years ago. We can decry both...
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Exam boards out of touch 2
In arguing grade "inflation" at A level, Bruce Charlton (Letters, 13 August) uses a monetary term that refers to the amount of money in existence and its velocity of circulation. But A levels are...