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Academic boycottUCU votes on shunning of SussexThe University and College Union has called a ballot on what it calls the "ultimate sanction" against a university where job cuts are planned. Union...
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Vince Cable's criticism of vice-chancellors' pay last week prompted lively debate online.One reader writes: "The business secretary ought to get his targets right. Although v-cs do earn a lot in...
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Grant winners
THE LEVERHULME TRUSTBasic sciencesAward winner: Karl EvansInstitution: University of SheffieldValue: £136,403Can climate change induce trophic mismatches that reduce orchid reproduction?Award winner...
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Unified theory: the academy, united, can never be defeated
As cuts bite, it would be easy for the sector to fragment. But, Keith Burnett argues, it must reject such pressures and work collectively to navigate the storm
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Windows shut on curiosity
Gavin Brown laments the disappearance of the basic programming languages, all but absent in the modern PC
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Daytime TV: Heavenly voices
There are some musical moments that make Gary Day forget class and everything else
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Field rankings for Germany
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, January 1999–December 2009
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'Nobody told me' - v-c claim
Our vice-chancellor is giving "serious thought" to following in the footsteps of Peter McCaffery, the vice-chancellor of Cumbria, who is leaving his job because at the time of his appointment he was...
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Duke of moral hazards
Felipe Fernández-Armesto is unimpressed by some of the Windsor clan
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Research Intelligence: No more plodding through
ESRC's first peer-review college aims to boost the success rates of grant applications. Neha Popat reports
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Leader: Flaunt your beauty and intellect
As universities are being forced into the commercial world, academics shouldn't be shy of launching a charm offensive
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From where I sit: Think outside the book
A few years ago, I served on the Modern Language Association (MLA) Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion. The committee was formed in the belief that young scholars in...
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Richard Gregory, 1923-2010
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UUK's two-tier pension bid is justly unpopular 1
The University and College Union read with interest the valiant attempt by the Universities UK chief executive Nicola Dandridge to sell the employers' proposals to reform the Universities...