Changes to work law begin to bite
Sector sees dramatic fall in the number of fixed-term contract staff, improving morale and leading to better job security for researchers. Anthea Lipsett and Melanie Newman explain. For Girish...
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Florida bans visits to 'terrorist' states
A judge has upheld a Florida law that in effect prevents students and faculty at public universities in that state from travelling to Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria, which the US Government...
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Inquiry into academic freedom in Hong Kong
Judicial inquiry will look at claims that the Education Secretary meddled in an institute's affairs. Liz Heron reports. A judicial inquiry has been launched into whether Hong Kong's Education...
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Text on creation deluges France
France's secular education system has been targeted by a Muslim creationist who has distributed to universities and lycees thousands of copies of a book that claims that living creatures did not...
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EU launches drive for research champions
Research council expected to raise Europe's game in innovation, writes Lars Rugaard The European Union's ambitious European Research Council was launched last week with the aim of creating what its...
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Ombudsman to rule on Cyprus exclusion
The European Ombudsman is to rule on a charge that the European Commission is guilty of "maladministration" for refusing to allow the Eastern Mediterranean University in Northern Cyprus to take part...
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Tartu gets temporary leader
Tartu University's difficulties in electing a new rector have been deferred after an interim acting rector was appointed, writes Vera Rich. Tonu Lehtsaar, professor of practical theology and a former...
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Ruth Scurr
The gulf between academic and trade books seems wider than ever. There is now a dramatic contrast in pricing: many academic books retail for well over Pounds 30, while trade publishers compete to...
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It is doctors, not mothers, doing the pushing here
Caesareans are on the rise not because women are demanding them but because obstetricians are advocating them, says Helen Churchill If the tabloid press is to be believed, women are becoming "too...
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Get on the right track
It's a problem that often besets celebrities, the discovery that someone has the domain name that you believe is rightfully yours. And higher education is not immune, as the Translational Medicine...
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Lofty ambitions
Officials at Northampton University, meanwhile, are at a loss as to what to do with their 1m-high former Express Lift tower. The Grade II listed building, known as the Northampton Lighthouse, was...
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Dim view of night lights
Dundee University has had to explain itself to a class of primary schoolchildren after ten-year-old Fergus Davidson wrote to principal Sir Alan Langlands complaining about the lights being on at...
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Talking chance
Keele University might be accused of something similar when one of its students attempts a "lecturethon" for Comic Relief next week. Christian Gerstner, a PhD student and sociology module leader, is...
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We can't safeguard heritage all alone
The closure of the British School in Iraq threatens the survival of the country's archaeological treasures, argues Lamia al-Gailani Werr. In 2000, archaeologists attending a symposium overheard two...
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There's nothing dismal about this science...
Economists have much to offer society, but they have to work harder to show the public their value, says Diane Coyle. Would you agree with the following statement? "(Economists) should take credit...