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Equality Bill fires dissent
Proposed new anti-discrimination legislation may dilute existing protection for workers, higher education's equality watchdog has said. A planned Single Equality Bill would cover all discrimination...
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£15m career training scheme to extend to research staff
UK GRAD gets boost to include university staff as well as postgrads on its programme. Louise Radnofsky reports Research staff will be included alongside postgraduate researchers in a new £15 million...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. 'I am trying to recruit for a senior research position. We have a number of candidates...
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Who's in who's out?
Hull York Medical School Patricia McGettigan is one of a flurry of international appointments to the Hull York Medical School (HYMS), which was set up by the universities of York and Hull in 2003....
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Insufficient help leaves weak tutors floundering
Neglected teachers, overlooked in a research-focused environment, are failing to improve, study finds.Louise Radnofsky reports Weak university teachers do not improve over the course of their careers...
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Lecturer taps into the text generation
Kevin Linch does not raise an eyebrow when his students get out their mobile phones and start texting in the middle of a lecture - it is usually because he has asked them to, writes Louise Radnofsky...
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'The profession is diversifying and the society needs to change'
In tumultuous times, a new chief scientific adviser to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society takes up her post Jayne Lawrence has taken the job of chief scientific adviser to the Royal Pharmaceutical...
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On the move...
* William Rosenberg , currently professor of hepatology and director of the Wellcome Trust clinical research facility at Southampton University's school of medicine, has been appointed to the Richard...
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Collaboration in research a 'tick-box' trick
Geographer sparks debate over whether interdisciplinary work is really valuable or just an exercise to win funding. Rebecca Attwood reports Academics' moves to collaborate on research across...
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Novelist finds his art imitates life
The anonymous author of a satirical novel on modern universities has told The Times Higher of his amazement at discovering that spoof details and courses in his book have real-life equivalents....
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Close English departments for benefit of nation, says Naipaul
Sir Vidia Naipaul, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature, called this week for university English literature departments to close. But academics shrugged off his attack on universities as...
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Next week
VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE Dusty Springfield is now recognised as a cultural icon worthy of academic scrutiny PLUS Laurie Taylor marvels at how sociology has become a proper grown-up subject
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For some, campus is still another country
Non-whites gain lower grades, complain of poor support and are less happy with university life. Tariq Tahir reports Students from minority ethnic groups not only obtain worse degree results than...
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Staff consider strike over their pay limbo
Lecturers' leaders at Stirling University are considering industrial action over the possible downgrading of up to 350 academic-related and administrative staff, writes Melanie Newman. The university...