Microsoft supplement
Microsoft supplement Published in The Times Higher on June 22 2007 The £80bn question Can universities equip 21st-century workers with critical thinking and industry-specific skills? Success...
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Terrorism studies surge
Attacks on London and New York have driven growth in a once marginal subject. Rebecca Attwood reports Terrorism is big business for UK universities, with levels of research and teaching in the area...
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Corks pop as support staff are honoured
A university security chief is among the dozens of higher education employees featured in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Bernadette Duncan, head of security at City University, London, was appointed...
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Web threatens learning ethos
US expert condemns the ‘Google grab-bag’ of modern students’ study methods. Chloe Stothart reports Are you a Googlista or an avid Wikipedian? Then you may be surprised to find that your favourite...
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Performance indicators reprieved
Performance indicators for universities and colleges are to go largely unchanged despite strong reservations about some of them expressed by institutions and other stakeholders in a nationwide review...
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IoE director faces tribunal case
It looks set to be one of the most high-profile — and embarrassing — personal disputes the usually tranquil world of education research has ever seen. Geoff Whitty, the director of the Institute of...
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Man and machine to join in lethal harmony
The US military is developing devices that link the neural signals in a soldier’s brain to his equipment, but academics are just beginning to debate the ethical issues. Melanie Newman reports The...
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It was never perfect, but it was my dream job
Since taking up my chair at Leicester University in 1977, I have had three invitations to consider offers of senior management positions in multinational companies. Although I knew and admired...
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Put that in your pipe and drink it
Humankind worked something of a miracle in the second half of the 20th century. Population trebled, and water consumption increased in proportion. The limits of our resources were tested. But we...
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Forget the form-filling, just listen and learn
An ethical audit could restore humanity to the sector, Jon Nixon says in our series on new ideas for higher education As an exercise in public accountability, the audit culture represents a...
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Physicists no match for polo
Roger McClure, chief executive of the Scottish Funding Council, has been monitoring the rapid rise up Google’s rankings of Supa, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, and is eagerly awaiting...
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Where the bullied fight back
Vice-chancellors beware. A blog for bullied academics ( http:///bulliedacademics.blogspot.com ) has launched a new award scheme, Divestors of People. It explains that the award “is a standard awarded...
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Brown: the first bid for power
Coming very soon to a channel near you, a newly discovered gem from the Scottish Screen Archive. Staff trawling through uncatalogued 16mm film acquired from Scottish Television discovered a 1975...
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Heavy weather with Scorchio
A strong contender for most laboured acronym is Manchester University’s Scorchio project (Sustainable Cities: Options for Responding to Climate Change Impacts and Outcomes), which is mapping urban...
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A question that must be asked
The end of the academic year is always a good time. Student evaluations are coming in, giving us a chance to mull over what we have taught and to tweak it just a little more so that students aren’t...