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Class size adds fuel to AUT fire over pay
Universities are turning into degree "production lines", lecturers' leaders argued this week as they published figures showing that the national student-to-staff ratio is worse in higher education...
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Who got that job?
Stephan Boehm RCUK academic fellow, Bangor University Advertised in The Times Higher , April 29, 2005 Stephan Boehm arrived at Bangor University six weeks ago from the US to take up his post as...
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Foundation will help more staff to take the lead
The Leadership Foundation for Higher Education has confirmed that it is funding a second tranche of fellowships to develop the management skills of senior academic staff. The second round of awards...
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Addendum to Council note on instrument for nuclear assistance (link)
Brussels, 10 November 2005 Full text of Document 14075/05 Addendum 01 Suite of documents 14075/05 No. prev. doc.: 13690/04 RELEX 453 PESC 871 FIN 463 DEVGEN 190 ACP 152 Subject: Proposal for a...
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Potocnik explains why Commission is intensifying efforts to get scientists communicating
Brussels, 10 Nov 2005 'Research is an area where we can very easily show the general public that the EU is working positively for them. It isn't all about failed referenda and budget squabbles, but...
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Green MEPs call for reassessment of EU energy research priorities
Brussels, 10 Nov 2005 A group of MEPs from the Green/EFA group of the European Parliament has called for a rethink of the EU's energy priorities under the proposed Seventh Framework Programme (FP7),...
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The integration of knowledge, semantic and digital media technologies
Brussels, 10 Nov 2005 The second European workshop on the integration of knowledge, semantic and digital media technologies will take place in London, UK, from 30 November to1 December. This workshop...
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Today's news
Terror Bill fears hit university University chiefs fear thousands of books will have to be stripped from library shelves under the controversial new Terrorism bill. Academics say thousands of texts...
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Laurie Taylor Column
City University employs "room police" to detect academics who fail to make full use of booked rooms - The Times Higher November 4 From: Maureen To: All Members of Department As you may know, this...
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Leader: Customer care is not surrender
At last, we begin to move from the realms of speculation about the impact of top-up fees to some hard facts. It would be dangerous to draw too many conclusions from today's applications statistics -...
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Leader: Rankings spur change
The Times Higher 's world university rankings were not designed as a stick with which to beat recalcitrant governments. But, with hindsight, it may have been inevitable that they would be used as...
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It's OK to think about feelings 4
I think there are interesting parallels between Dennis Hayes's debate and the lessons in the article "Attention! Top brass agree new manoeuvre", (November 4). Although it is important to challenge...
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Writes and wrongs 1
Having spent the best part of Friday afternoon documenting the full extent of internet plagiarism in a student's work for a disciplinary committee, I was dismayed to read that William Leahy believes...
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Writes and wrongs 2
William Leahy argues that it is unrealistic to expect undergraduates to produce original work. I have always understood that it is only PhD students who are expected to be original. What we do expect...