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Lisa Nelson, clinical training practitioner in herbal medicine, University of East London. Job advertised : The Times Higher, June 30, 2006 The World Health Organization estimates that Britons spend...
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Soas splashes out on staff to broaden its horizons
The School of Oriental and African Studies wants to recruit almost 20 lecturers to boost new areas and revitalise others. The posts, advertised in The Times Higher this week and next, will broaden...
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Today's news
Alarm as students achieve record top degrees Two out of three university students graduated with a top degree last year, according to figures certain to raise fresh concerns that standards are in...
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Laurie Taylor Column
Universities are using consultants posing as would-be students to test the "customer care" skills of academics - The Times Higher , January 5 Professor Lapping. A mystery student on line one......
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Leader: Using the calm before the storm
After years of almost continuous expansion, these are worrying times for universities throughout the developed world. While the demand for places from overseas applicants remains generally buoyant,...
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Leader: Charitable deeds
Would you leave your house to your employer, even if it was a university? For many readers, the mere suggestion will be laughable. Charitable donations (on a considerably smaller scale) tend to be...
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Free speech, not just for academe 1
How many academics would award a PhD if it became evident during the viva, if not before, that the thesis presented represented the opinions of someone who had not studied the area, had not...
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Free speech, not just for academe 2
Keith Flett (Letters, January 5) argues that the freedom of academics to speak out "cannot extend to people weighing in with racist, sexist, homophobic and other prejudicial thoughts". Leaving aside...
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Free speech, not just for academe 3
The restrictions on free speech supported by Keith Flett are profoundly dangerous precisely because words such as "racist" and "homophobic" have no objective definition and undermine the objective...
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Free speech, not just for academe 4
There is still considerable confusion over the subject of academic freedom. To suggest that it "exists (only) within the constraints of our society" is false, because we live not in a medieval but in...
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Free speech, not just for academe 5
A spokeswoman for the Equality Challenge Unit is quoted as saying that academic freedom must be balancedJagainst the need to "promote responsible debate". And who, pray, is to decide what is and is...
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Free speech, not just for academe 6
Until a definition of academic freedom can be agreed and it is disentangled from freedom of speech and then protected by statute, confusion regarding its scope will remain. A request for a statement...
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Linguistic challenge
Jan Bamford is right to underline the need for a greater level of English-language support for international students ("UK told to raise language bar for foreign students", December 22/29). But she...
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Pay misconceptions 1
The story "Reform sparks pay scramble" (January 5) repeats yet again the falsehood that the 2004 pay framework agreement covers "all university staff - from porters to professors". The framework...
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Pay misconceptions 2
I am not an economist, so perhaps that is why I am perplexed at the ubiquity of the phrase "market forces" in higher education, invariably used to justify the inflated salaries of senior academic...