Shed prejudice at passport control
Waiting at the airport to be allowed to enter the US, Kevin Fong discovers that there is someone guilty of cultural stereotyping... George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston. The passport control...
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Has someone got their eye on you?
Peer observation is not judging the quality of a lecturer, says Harriet Swain. It is about developing and sharing teaching methods and styles that will benefit both the observer and the observed....
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Healthy eating, unhealthy decor
Name : Heather Hartwell. Age: 50. Job: Senior lecturer with responsibility for nutrition and food safety in the School of Services and Hospitality Management, Bournemouth University. Salary : About £...
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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 employed as a research assistant and my contract runs out at the end of September...
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Drive to complete telecoms network
Swansea University's year-old £30 million Institute of Telecommunications has begun a final push to get key staff in place and to put its ambitious research plans into full swing, writes Tony Tysome...
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Who got that cash?
A "happy accident" led a consortium of six institutions to win £3.5 million from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to help Britain prepare for the London Olympics. Stephen Hailes...
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Gloom lifts for science
Physics and chemistry are making a comeback with a growth in student demand. Tony Tysome reports. Scientific subject heads have forecast a bright outlook for academics seeking jobs in physics and...
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Market in HE a threat
Universities worldwide are losing sight of their “social, cultural and intellectual objectives” as commercial forces turn them into simple producers of “commodities”, according to a new report,...
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Today's news
Sally Hunt wins UCU election Sally Hunt has been elected the first general secretary of the University and College Union, it was announced today. Ms Hunt was the former head of the Association of...
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Shocked and awed
From the bombardment of Guernica to the overwhelming force used in Iraq, artists have struggled to convey the full extent of terror from above, says Ian Patterson. Humankind may not be able to bear...
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It's buy, buy to women. Now the girlies rule
If Wags and conspicuous consumption are the epitome of post-feminist womanhood, we've not come a long way, baby, argues Becky Munford According to self-identified "sexist" Mike Newell, the manager of...
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Parallel lives
An academic and his undergraduate son at the same university offer different perspectives on an issue. This month: customer relations The father It all started getting weird when we discovered that...
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His book of life still awaits its completion
Systematists have struggled to preserve the order of species that Linnaeus created, but the rate at which our natural knowledge grows and threats to biodiversity make their task ever more difficult....
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Today's news
Academic ‘hounded over immigration claim’ An Oxford University professor at the centre of a debate on academic freedom said last night that he was being hounded because he had dared to challenge the...
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Latest research news
Researchers pour cold water on belief in morning coffee 'caffeine buzz Regular coffee drinkers who believe their morning cup gives them a much-needed boost might like to think again. A conference...