Europe is match for US pioneering spirit
The European Union is catching up with the US in innovation, claims a statistical report financed by the European Commission, although the US still enjoys many significant advantages. However, the...
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Win award for tech standards
Universities that promote the usefulness of global standards in research, business and public administration will be honoured this summer by awards from the International Organisation for...
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Mother tongue twisted by drive for global gains
As universities 'accommodate' foreign fee-payers with limited language skills, Roy Harris fears for the future of English. An unnoticed casualty of the cold war between university managers and...
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The real bad boys of politics
Gordon Brown may be smarting from being described as a "secretive Stalinist bully", but Tony Blair and George W. Bush fared worse from the words of Frank Faulkner, a sociology lecturer at Derby...
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Germany offers licence to grill
Turks in Germany can study the doner kebab and the production of the snack that is now more popular than the grilled sausage. Germany, home to nearly 3 million Turks, believes the course will ensure...
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Publicity drive takes wrong turn
Universities are normally not shy about the coverage they get in the press. But last Friday's university-wide email alert about media mentions of the University of Central Lancaster contained not a...
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Practise what you preach
David White, the European Commission's new director of Life Long Learning, Education and Training Policy, would appear to be the holder of both a healthy ego and an onerous new job. In the Europe...
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Islam has no problem with honest debate
Andrey Rosowsky says Leeds's ban of a controversial lecture is based on lazy thinking Working within the academy as a Muslim carries with it a cluster of intellectual tensions, the occasional...
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A storm surge of people power
Hurricane Katrina spawned a civic movement that could mark a long-term shift in the political balance of power, says Lawrence Powell There have been so many gloomy reports coming out of America's...
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A Victorian idea that could do with restoration
Institutions offering academic and vocational courses deserve more autonomy, say Bruce Macfarlane and Neil Garrod. Controversy surrounds the Government's proposal to allow further education colleges...
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Realpolitik, the Humpty way
Jargon is infiltrating all aspects of universities, making a mockery of higher education's aims, argues Bob Brecher. Skimming through a committee agenda the other day - as you do - I was startled and...
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Bin recipe book, let them create
If you really want your students to link teaching to research, you need to stop lecturing on what you know and get them to start investigating the subject for themselves, says Harriet Swain. Linking...
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Rain didn't stop play in Blackpool
Name: Adrian Bailey Age: 45 Job: Head of the School of Geography and professor of migration studies, Leeds University. Education/ background: I've been a geographer from the get-go, and spent three...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. 'I am a senior academic at a traditional research-led university. A colleague at a...
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Who got that cash?
An unlikely combination of defence and biodiversity led a Bristol University team to scoop a £330,000 award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The project, "Militarised Landscapes in the...