Patricia Soley-Beltran
* Patricia Soley-Beltran, who was mentioned in "People" last week, took her PhD in the sociology of gender and science, and not on modelling, as we reported.
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'The norms have changed'
JEFFREY WEEKS EXECUTIVE DEAN, ARTS and human SCIENCES, LONDON SOUTH BANK One of the best-known catchphrases from the television comedy Little Britain is the character Daffyd's chippy insistence that...
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World Encompassed
Texas A&M loses bacteria licences The Center for Disease Control in the US has suspended a university's licence to work with two bacteria after the institution took more than a year to report...
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Disclosure, not exposure, is still our best bet
"Almost 50 universities at risk of financial collapse", the headline promised. "Universities in peril", forecast another. The reaction was predictable. Politicians were quick to argue that students...
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Here's an initiative: leave us to come up with ideas
Does the new tightly focused ministry signal a more meddlesome approach? Michael Shattock hopes not The creation of a new government department with "universities" in its title can be seen as a...
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Innovation needs some fresh ideas
DIUS offers Whitehall a real chance to make changes for the better, says James Wilsdon It is easy to exaggerate the significance of changes to the machinery of government. Novel acronyms and fresh...
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Darling, can you help?
The UK's newest university, Queen Margaret in Edinburgh, last week installed Sir Tom Farmer CBE, the entrepreneur and philanthropist, as its founding chancellor. In town that day, he was accosted by...
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Beware good burghers
Advice from an elder at Queen Margaret's inauguration ceremony: keep an eye on the local authority. Edinburgh University still mourns the loss of its original 1640 silver mace, reportedly stolen on...
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Masters of the poly-verse
Geoffrey Alderman, the former Middlesex University quality chief, has let slip a fascinating insight into university management in the Jerusalem Post last week. "Polytechnics did not enjoy academic...
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Steaming the world
The gap year is clearly not a recent innovation. The University of Sunderland Press has just published From Tyne to Tsar: A Cargo Steamer's Voyage in 1905 , a young Edwardian's account of the SS...
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Couples deserve better than this
Marriage is outdated; cohabiting lacks rights. We need a radical, modern alternative, say Sarah Beresford and Caroline Falkus Marriage as a way of regulating intimate relationships has had its day....
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Mr Brown, please balance our cultural capital
Government must democratise excellence, Alan Skelton writes in our series on new ideas for higher education It would be unwise for Gordon Brown to make any appeal to the excellence of our "world-...
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Overloaded with tedious details
Bin all the paperwork and excise the e-mails - otherwise no one will read them. The bare essentials are best, advises Susan Bassnett Twice in the past week I have misread information sent to me via e...
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Building a case for that big rise
The first step to landing a pay increase is to ask for one, but you must also prove you've earned it. Harriet Swain explains why doing some research beforehand and getting the timing right is all...
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The grease that keeps the academic engine running
Name : John Gledhill Age : 59 Job : Executive director to the vice-chancellor and clerk to the board of governors at Coventry University. About two thirds of my year is spent arranging schedules,...