Don't downgrade solid foundations for success
Allowing colleges to award two-year degrees could harm a still maturing qualification, says Drummond Bone The Further Education and Training Bill, which receives its second reading in the House of...
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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst: it's glasshouse party season
Four Seasons Festival - winter Oxford University Botanic Garden One of the many pleasures of the BBC's Planet Earth series has been each episode's coda, which sets out to explain how particular...
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Not such a clean sheet after all
Sir David King, the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser and climate-change guru, left an almost indelible mark on Imperial College London, Sir Richard Sykes, the rector, told the audience of the...
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Can't keep collegiality down
John Hood, Oxford University's beleaguered vice-chancellor, failed to push ahead with his plans to expand the number of external members of the university's Council last week. And it appears...
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Is this list a liability?
Attentive readers of Peep's Diary may recall that when Elly Rothnie, events manager at Aberdeen University, was listed as 30th most eligible woman in Scotland last year, she said that ranking would...
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We're a Triumph
If we are to hold our own in the 21st century, we should take a lesson from Google and YouTube, argues Stephen Heppell The UK has a knack of losing wonderful assets. No sooner do we have something...
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Answers to planet's ills are out of this world
As Earth struggles with climate change and overcrowding, Charles Cockell recommends we look to the final frontier The ongoing exploits of two tiny rovers on the surface of Mars seem like an...
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Just can't tune out Irritate FM
The train doesn't always take the strain, finds Kevin Fong, after enduring an ear-splitting mobile conversation all the way home I'm on the train, on the way back from Liverpool. I got to the station...
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Don't let a bald pate throw you
Harriet Swain says employers must tread carefully as the new discrimination regulations kick in, especially when it comes to making assumptions about people's age based solely on what they look like...
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Flee the hutch to find fruits of forest
Name : David Morley Age : 42 Jobs: Poet, associate professor and director of the Warwick University Writing Programme. Salary : Poetry is the opposite of money. Education/ background : I was a...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. My team is responsible for student finance and I have received conflicting advice about...
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Staff are afraid to declare disability
Universities are unable to adhere to the law as academics are not reporting conditions, Tony Tysome writes Academics are afraid to declare disabilities or impairments because they believe that it...
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Young Scots get opportunity to work with top researchers
New researchers in Scotland are enjoying growing opportunities to establish their careers in a "transformed" research landscape, according to Roger McClure, chief executive of the Scottish Funding...
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Who got that cash?
To win a Wellcome Trust fellowship is rare, but to win three in a row is exceptional. Andrew Tobin , professor of cell physiology and pharmacology at Leicester University, has just received his third...
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Today's news
Cambridge don cleared of 'Benny Hill' sex assault A university academic accused of making "pervy, Benny Hill noises'' as he groped a former student's bottom was cleared yesterday of sexual assault....