Moscow
Russian university and research centres working in energy, environment and climate areas are likely to witness a bonanza as the country moves to a system of carbon trading. The Ministry of Economic...
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Nîmes
The Centre Universitaire de Formation et de Recherche de Nimes will this year become France's smallest university. The multidisciplinary establishment, known as Unîmes, which is integrated in the...
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Looks seem to be everything
Whose fault is it that an alarming number of students fail to understand what a PhD entails, asks Susan Bassnett Twice in recent months I have come across PhD students quoting from Wikipedia in their...
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Open yourself up to foreign affairs
Working with colleagues from overseas need not be difficult so long as everyone is aware of and sensitive to the cultural differences and similarities of the host and home countries, says Harriet...
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Dutch master with a balcony view
Name: Gwen van der Velden Age: 38 Job: Director of learning and teaching enhancement. I lead a team at Bath University responsible for educational development, quality management, e-learning support...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. 'For the past five years, as a unit leader for research methods on a masters programme...
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Support staff lose pay in job reviews
UCU launches survey to reveal numbers affected as it prepares to tackle employers. Tony Tysome reports Thousands of academic-related staff have been "red-circled" by employers as being overpaid for...
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Who got the cash?
An atmospheric chemist at York University has won a £70,000 research grant to study a process in the Arctic that could combat global warming. Lucy Carpenter (pictured), a senior lecturer, won the...
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Sheffield Hallam burnishes reputation with £1m drive
Sheffield Hallam University has launched a £1 million recruitment drive to appoint new academics across all disciplines from PhD to principal lecturer level. The posts, which are advertised in this...
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Darwin fellowships
Deadline: 16/03/2007
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UKCRC Public Health Research Centres of Excellence
Deadline: 27/03/2007
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Today's news
University unable to tell its arts from its elbow Australia’s leading woman academic sought to assert her claim yesterday over hundreds of works of art on display at a university by revealing that...
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Laurie Taylor Column
"University managers have begun indicating to staff whether their research work is sufficiently widely recognised to be submitted for the 2008 research assessment exercise" - The Times Higher,...
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Leader: Losses that can never be undone
Perhaps we should be neither surprised nor concerned by the closure of so many science and languages departments in our universities or by the "subject deserts" such closures create. Is it not, after...
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Leader: The price of harmony
It is hard to quibble with the £125,000 that the Higher Education Funding Council for England has invested in mediation awareness when one considers that universities are each spending upwards of £...