Czechs offer tips to topple dictator
Student dissidents from Belarus are being coached in regime change by Czechs who experienced Prague's Velvet Revolution nearly 20 years ago, writes Nick Holdsworth. A week-long "winter school" for a...
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Leader leaves academic chaos
Saparyrat Niyazov, the President of Turkmenistan and self-styled "Turkmenbashi" ("Father of all Turkmens"), left a legacy of an education system in disarray when he died in late December, writes Vera...
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Evils of history will not be expunged with cash
Righting the wrongs of slavery must focus on improving the future, not on atoning for the past, says John Torpey A commission of inquiry at Brown University in the US recently completed an intensive...
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Alison Wolf
Unemployment is rising and things are getting tight over at the Treasury. In the year ahead, the Government will need to spend our money wisely on behalf of UK plc. And where better than in the field...
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Roger Kline: If I were voted general secretary of the UCU
The first in a series of three articles in which candidates vying to lead the University and College Union explain what distinguishes them from their rivals Staff at a major university told me that...
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Ugliness that mars the beautiful game
In the wake of the Stevens inquiry into Premiership probity, five football-loving academics tackle the state of play of the national game at professional and community levels Meat-and-potato pie or...
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Laugh in the face of their demands
Are we doing enough to deal with the corrosive actions of our political masters? asks Bob Brecher Asked whether academics have anything in common, I would say something like this. Our basic task is...
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Take a walk with a simple idea
Your PhD does not have to solve the meaning of life, explains Harriet Swain. It is far better to find a gap in knowledge that can be explored in the appropriate time and that you can build on in...
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A paperless office, what's that?
Name: Chris Willmott Age: "Life begins", as the saying goes, in January... Job: I teach biochemistry and bioethics (sometimes simultaneously) at Leicester University. I am the editor of Bioscience...
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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 a 42-year-old balding lecturer with a beer gut and glasses. Strangely, a young...
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UCL casts the net for innovative engineers
Academics with a head for business are being sought for a new department at University College London, writes Alan Thomson. In this week's Times Higher , the college is offering three positions in...
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Who got that cash?
A Bristol University academic has won £314,411 to undertake what must be one of the most pleasant research endeavours in any academic field. Having visited more than 450 historic gardens in...
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Cut pain of change
Got a controversial institutional project? Alan Thomson reports on a way to test it before it is unleashed on staff Imagine if university managers had the chance to test and rethink controversial...
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Eat more humble pie this year
The new year heralds the season of good intentions. Academics would do well to follow the humble example shown by Sir Alexander Todd, the Nobel prizewinning Scottish chemist. According to Chem@Cam ,...
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Grades too low? Try science
Australian Science and Education Minister Julie Bishop’s new year’s resolution is to get more people to study science at university. She is determined to increase demand for science degrees in a bid...