Don't let it blow up in your face
Teaching students in the lab is fraught with danger. Getting to know the technician can safeguard against hitches while creating a social atmosphere gets sessions going with a bang, says Harriet...
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Chaplain's castle is a homely haven
Name: Anthony Bash Age: 53 Job: Solway fellow and chaplain at University College, Durham - a wonderful post, part-time college chaplain and part-time researcher on the New Testament, which I took up...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. I work in an overcrowded office with no windows facing outside. There is very little...
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Part-time staff win security with deal
Westminster University is setting a new standard in the treatment of part-time staff with its plans to shift up to 250 academics from short-term contracts to permanent positions. Jill Jones, the...
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Who got that cash?
An Anglo-Scottish spin-off company has won £750,000 to exploit research into flat-panel displays. The cross-border Quantum Filament Technologies, led by Dundee University's Merv Rose , and Surrey...
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Poll uncovers academics' qualms about managers
A staff survey has revealed Manchester University academics' doubts about the management skills of their senior colleagues. Staff at the university were asked for their thoughts on their management,...
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Trends: A sorry state of affairs
The drop in numbers of pupils from maintained schools applying to study science and language should trigger alarm bells, says Sam Freedman Key departments at many universities, especially in science...
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Trends: Boys let the side down
Fewer male school-leavers are moving on to university than projected, prompting a review of the Government's participation target. David Jobbins reports The Government has revised downwards its...
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Bangui
Lecturers at the Central African Republic's national university have decided to continue a six-month strike in protest against the continued non-payment of academics' salaries.
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Buea
A student was killed and several police injured during protests over poor teaching and accommodation at the University of Buea in Cameroon.
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Cairo
The Egyptian Government censors university course books and outlaws research about controversial issues, according to a Human Rights Watch report this week. * Egypt has prevented playwright Ali Salem...
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Luxembourg
The European Investment Bank is lending E50 million (£33.7 million) to fund more than 130 schemes to expand and refurbish university buildings in Finland.
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Madrid
The 2005 Communication and Humanities Award of the Principe de Asturias Foundation has been won by cultural relations organisations in Spain, including the British Council, the Alliance Francaise,...
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Paris
New ministers for education are in place following last week's cabinet shuffle after the "no" vote on the European constitution. Gilles de Robien is the new Education Minister, and Francois Goulard...
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Cluj-Napoca
Hungarian minorities in Romania, Serbia and the Carpathian Ukraine, and France's Basque people face the biggest disadvantages in receiving higher education in their native languages, the European...