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* Oxford University has appointed: Manfred Engel , currently professor of new German literature at Saarland University in Germany, Taylor professor of the German language; John Hawthorne , professor...
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Standard is set to lift teaching
A new framework aims to establish UK-wide criteria and ensure that academics are trained to meet them. Jessica Shepherd reports UK academics have created the world's first guide to the standards of...
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Just drop dead? That's too easy
Scotland's men have long had a reputation for violence, but new research reveals just how fiery its women could be. A St Andrews University historian has discovered that Scottish women in previous...
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Women find their way up the ladder
Anne Kerr typifies the kind of ambitious and determined woman beginning to make her mark in higher education. At the age of just 36 and only 12 years since starting out as a research fellow at...
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Harvard chief makes early exit
Lawrence Summers, the president of Harvard University, quit this week, days before academics were to consider a second vote of no confidence in his leadership. Derek Bok, president of Harvard from...
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Next week
WINNERS AND LOSERS Who's prospered and who's been penalised in Hefce's £6bn 2006-07 teaching and research grants? PLUS Laurie Taylor interviews the deeply disillusioned cultural studies guru Stuart...
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Med schools predict fierce fight for first doctor posts
Medical students may be unable to find a junior doctor post when they finish their five years of training unless the Government takes urgent action, angry medical school heads have warned. Long-...
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Researchers to get a bill of rights from P&G
Revelations that academics had published findings on a drug without full access to trial data have led Procter & Gamble to make a commitment to transparency and integrity. Phil Baty reports...
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Experts cast doubt over scientists' claims for Actonel
Significant doubts over scientific claims made about Procter & Gamble's osteoporosis drug Actonel were raised this week after a report by The Times Higher last year that Sheffield University...
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Censorship claim as surfers find sites blocked
Nottingham Trent University has been accused of censorship after installing a software package to block staff access to a wide range of websites. Lecturers' union Natfhe this week said that the...
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Exam boycott will hit public services
Lecturers' union leaders plan to starve the UK of nurses, teachers and key public sector workers this year to underline the seriousness of their "now or never" campaign for higher salaries. Members...
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Vet idea to boost chance of grant
Universities should screen research council grant applications internally before submitting them if they want to increase their chances of success, a research council chief advised this week. Julia...
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Blond has more fun but fails to thwart anti top-up fee vote
Everyone knows that today's students would rather have a lie-in than exercise their democratic right to vote - that is, until they scent the blood of a certain blond-haired Tory Higher Education...
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School of Bard knocks
The worlds of Shakespeare and wrestling came together in a play performed at Teesside University this month. Anton Hecht's play Wrestling Shakespeare involves actors orating Shakespearean text while...
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Believer with a faith in reason
John Haldane is the first known practising Roman Catholic to be a professor of philosophy in Scotland since the Reformation. The St Andrews University academic explicitly describes himself as a...