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  1. Who got that job?

    Feargal Brennan , professor of offshore engineering, Cranfield University. Job advertised in The Times Higher , November 2, 2006 After 20 years at University College London, Feargal Brennan has moved...

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  2. Wanted: new breed

    Colleges with degree-awarding powers will offer fresh opportunities to 'hybrid' lecturers. Tony Tysome reports Fresh career opportunities for a "new breed of lecturer" will emerge when further...

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  3. Laurie Taylor Column

    UNIVERSITY OF POPPLETON From: Jamie Targett, Director of Corporate Affairs To: All academic staff In last week’s Times Higher , a number of respected academics called for universities not to...

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  4. Leader: Destined to be second best?

    Is universities' obsession with research now so marked that teaching has lost whatever status it once enjoyed? Two weeks ago we reported the case of retired professor Alan Jenkins, who felt his...

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  5. Leader: 'Non-stories': a survey

    The Times Higher has compiled a list of "non-stories" that the press is using to fill pages now that the floods have receded, clearing has failed to degenerate into chaos and Paris Hilton has been...

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  6. PhD theses: the pros and cons 1

    The decision by Stirling University to offer PhD students the opportunity to submit a series of linked peer-reviewed journal articles rather than a traditional thesis ("Stirling plans to waive PhD...

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  7. PhD theses: the pros and cons 2

    Stirling University's initiative is a step forward towards more continental style PhDs in the UK. Years ago, I was informed by Aberdeen University that there are no statutory barriers to a thesis...

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  8. PhD theses: the pros and cons 3

    Stirling University is right to think that its thesis-free PhD offers "better preparation for an academic career than the traditional dissertation". It will produce graduates with no coherent...

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  9. PhD theses: the pros and cons 4

    I always thought the point of postgraduate research was to allow a bright person to pursue a subject he or she loves, make an original contribution to it and so add to the sum of human knowledge. To...

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  10. PhD theses: the pros and cons 5

    Alistair McCulloch claims that it should be acceptable for PhD students to resort to "professional" proofreaders (defined as individuals "professional in the use of English", such as secondary-school...

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  11. Surf's up 1

    Popping along to Fistral beach to enrol on a surf science course ("Sun, sea, sand and sexing up clearing"; Opinion, August 17) I encounter Alan Ryan. He tells me not to waste my time and money and...

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  12. Surf's up 2

    Alan Ryan's argument about GCSEs is an odd one for an educationist to advance, ignoring as it does the cumulative and maturing effect many students experience as they move from GCSE towards A level...

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  13. Class divisions 1

    Unlike Dr Chav ("Who are you calling a thicko prole?", August 17), I am female and have worked in only one "new" university so far due to entering academia after obtaining a first-class degree at the...

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  14. Class divisions 2

    Dr Chav makes a poignant statement about social class- based stratification in higher education. The reality is that when the tuition fees cap is released in 2010, we will face a starker two-tier...

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  15. Class divisions 3

    Dr Chav's account of the snobbery of academia towards the white working class contains cultural imperialism of its own: crowning the "chav" as the defining icon of working-class culture. Nearly 20...

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