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Name: Paul Murray Age: 50 Job: Principal lecturer, Environmental Building Group, Plymouth University Salary: Circa £40,000 pro rata Background: After spending five years in the Merchant Navy, I went...
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Talks aim to create single pension
Discussions have opened to bring all academics into one pension scheme, possibly as early as the end of next year. Universities UK and the Department for Education and Skills are hoping to end one of...
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Who got that job?
Robert Tavernor, professor of architecture and urban design, London School of Economics. Job advertised in The Times Higher , September 24, 2004 Despite being appointed professor of architecture and...
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Luton seeks research Olympian for new post
It may come too late to help persuade the International Olympic Committee to let London host the 2012 games before it announces its verdict in July, but Luton University is tapping into Olympic fever...
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Future masters of spin?
No, it’s not the vice-chancellor’s new motor. If you see a gleaming Aston Martin parked on campus it probably means that the Tories’ higher education spokesman is paying a visit. Before he was...
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With friends like Clare...
Alan Smithers, director of the Centre for Education and Employment Research at Buckingham University, is said to be upset that his friend John Clare, education editor of the Daily Telegraph , has...
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Not too deep a mystery
Just who could David Coates be referring to when he acknowledges those who helped him with his new book on the Government, Prolonged Labour ? The professor of Anglo-American studies at Wake Forest...
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The lure of big buck(et)s
Harvard historian Niall Ferguson praised conference organisers at West Virginia University for giving him an apt welcome when he delivered the prestigious Callahan lecture earlier this month....
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Laurie Taylor Column
Staff at Brunel University object to being classified as "research inactive" - The Times Higher , March 15 . Academic assessment Volume 13. March 2005 There is a growing demand for an objective...
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Alan Ryan
The travails of a sacked basketball coach and Harvard's president highlight US universities' results-driven ethos Here in Charlottesville, the home of Thomas Jefferson and of the university he...
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Leader: Caught in web of our own making
Anything that provides prospective students with objective judgements on the quality of higher education courses ought to be welcome. Since the demise of subject reviews, there has been little for...
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Leader: Don't fudge ambition
The consultation on post-qualification applications made it clear that the UK's predictions-based application process is finally going to change. But it is still not certain what will take its place...
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Flexibility can stretch just so far
Over the past few weeks, you have published two articles cataloguing the stresses and perceived injustices suffered by staff trying to balance their working lives and their home commitments ("Bundle...
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Citation frustration
I was intrigued by your league table of biomedicine (March 4) - in particular the research standing of UK universities as reflected in the "citations per paper" index. Evidence Ltd publishes an...
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Boring, not brutal 1
Andrew Linzey evidently does not live in our universe but rather in a curious parallel universe operating on very different moral foundations ("Why II fear for the treatment of laboratory animals",...