Poach thy neighbour
The vice-chancellors of Sussex and Brighton universities, Alasdair Smith and Julian Crampton, raised laughs with their honesty at the Society for Research into Higher Education conference last week....
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A job for life and for Christmas
Once an academic, always an academic. The Latvian president, who until 1999 was a psychology professor at the University of Montreal, is to spend the Christmas break writing a book on Latvian folk...
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Unless we merge we will surely die
The sector will survive only if it embraces the business ethic, says Adrian Monck. What it needs is a Wapping or a "big bang" Remember the big bang? Not the Stephen Hawking variety, but the one 20...
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Take a Frenchman, an Englishman and then...
...throw in sex and money - and what do you get? World leaders who weren't all they seemed, says Richard Vinen In his memoirs, Winston Churchill recalls his first meeting with Charles de Gaulle. It...
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Crumbs! Munch bunch is coming
Why do students treat lectures like a cinema outing, arming themselves with snacks? Susan Bassnett chews it over Some years ago, when I first visited a US university, I was surprised to see notices...
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Make sure there is room at the inn
Students who have come from care need more support than peers to progress to university and to stay there. Harriet Swain pinpoints strategies that ease their progress, including providing year-round...
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Untold wealth and wishful thinking
Name: Trudie Roberts Job: Head, Leeds University School of Medicine Background: First-class honours degree in anatomy and a degree in medicine from Manchester University, followed by junior medical...
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Ask the panel
As a security guard in a new university in an inner city, I am frequently called on to deal with drunken students and break up parties or late-night brawls. I feel intimidated and fear for my safety...
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Beat 'fluffy' race advice
Toolkit aims to help tutors understand new law and to be sensitive to students' cultural values. Olga Wojtas reports A practical guide to help lecturers steer through a potential minefield of...
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Web pilot to boost prestige
Academics at Brunel University could see their reputations enhanced with increased citation rates for their research papers under a new scheme to archive all their work online. John Murtagh, project...
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Who in who's out
ROYAL HOLLOWAY Much of Sandra Halperin's work in her role as professor of international relations at Royal Holloway, University of London, involves global change and conflict. She joins just as the...
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Laurie Taylor Column
VICE-CHANCELLOR'S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE Dear Colleagues, Once again, it is Christmas and, once again, it is time for me to thank you all for your support during the past year. Once again, this has been a...
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto
In what used to be my favourite episode of The Simpsons , Moe, the bartender at Homer's sordid, beer-swilling local dive, makes an epiphanic journey back to his alma mater. At Swigmore College he...
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Leader: Can academics be entirely free?
Who could object to a statement of principle in support of academic freedom? Surely here lies the ultimate "motherhood and apple pie" topic of university life, and the only surprise is that anyone...