Meet the avatars, your new students
On the eve of the Online Educa Berlin conference, The Times Higher asked delegates how IT will change the nature of academics' work in ten years' time. Academic lives will be changed for ever with...
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Send the brats to sergeant-major
The RAE brings out the spoilt child in academics who know their market value, bemoans Tim Birkhead. My first head of department was a tyrant. He had been a sergeant-major in the Second World War,...
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Don't count on a sugar daddy
The marriage of industry funds and academic research is not a one-sided affair, says Harriet Swain. Sponsors expect a mutually beneficial relationship and it might be worth looking into a prenup. It'...
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Golden goals for a lushly turfed lab
Name : Ged Roddy. Age : 43. Job : Director of sport, Bath University. Background : I was an undergraduate at Birmingham University and postgraduate at Manchester University - I was and remain a...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. For the past 20 years, I have worked as a lecturer in new universities. A year ago, I...
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Boom time for posts in economics research
Five economics chairs are on offer at Edinburgh University in the first recruitment drive of a multimillion-pound research pooling collaboration. The Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (...
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Who got that job?
Stewart Mottram, research lecturer, Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, department of English, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Advertised: The Times Higher , June 2 Stewart Mottram is...
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Stress: call to arms
Union rallies the troops over anxiety in the workplace, reports Tony Tysome. It is time to stop complaining and to get tough with employers who fail to deal with the causes of workplace stress,...
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Today's news
Bishops back student fight for religious freedom on campus Some of Britain’s most senior religious figures call today for an end to “intolerant and unlawful” attempts to restrict the rights of...
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Laurie Taylor Column
To: All Academic Staff. From: Jamie Targett, Director of Corporate Affairs. Subject: Staff Xmas Dinners The tradition of Staff Xmas Dinners at Poppleton is one of the few elements of university life...
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Leader: Market dictates science provision
Taken at face value, Alan Johnson's letter on the fate of departments in strategic subjects is sensible but inconsequential. The Education Secretary wants to be kept informed of closure...
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Leader: Profitable expansion
It is easy to dismiss as self-serving the claims of the company hoping to run the UK's first for-profit university that the private sector represents the only realistic hope of achieving 50 per cent...
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Six of the best for aspiring Einsteins
Sears and Zemansky's College Physics, Volume One. Eighth Edition - Physics. Seventh Edition - Sears and Zemansky's University Physics with Modern Physics. Eleventh Edition - College Physics. Second...
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To transform, try a good workout
A First Course in Differential Equations. First Edition
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Cases for the cipher sleuths
Complexity and Cryptography. First Edition - Cryptography