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Spiralling workloads stifle staff retention
Learned societies fear for recruitment as demands on academics rocket, say Anthea Lipsett and Tony Tysome. Academic recruitment and retention will suffer as staff struggle to balance the triple...
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Easygoing campuses a magnet for stalkers
The relaxed relationships between academics and their students have made university campuses a natural haven for stalkers, it was claimed this week. Writing in The Times Higher , Bran Nicol, the...
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'Australia has set up an effective system of forced pension saving'
Pensions expert and LSE deputy director Paul Johnson is heading for Australia to hone his management skills Improving his family's quality of life was high on the list when Paul Johnson, deputy...
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On the move...
* Michael Osbaldeston , director of Cranfield School of Management, is the new chair of the Association of Business Schools. * Royal Northern College of Music has appointed: Dame Gillian Weir ,...
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Paisley plumps for new image
Managers say 'University of the West of Scotland' will improve competitiveness, reports Olga Wojtas Paisley has emerged as the latest university to seek a name change, joining a steady stream of...
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Cast-out staff have to mingle with students
The common room, academics' sanctuary from the clamour of ever more demanding students, is under threat, the University and College Union claimed this week, writes Phil Baty. The union spoke out as...
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'Vocal minority' could ruin faculty reputations
The views of 20 students could soon be enough to make or break the reputation of university departments and the academics who work in them under plans to reform the landmark National Student Survey....
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Next week
A brief history of time... ...spent as Stephen Hawking's graduate assistant - incumbents of the job reveal what it was like and why their toes are sore. Plus Free London supplement
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Oxbridge recovery
Applications for autumn courses at Oxford and Cambridge universities are up 4.3 per cent on last year, indicating a recovery after the introduction of top-up fees. Figures released by the...
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Network powers up
SuperJANET, the information superhighway for academics, has been relaunched and offers users more computing power and vastly improved storage capacity. The relaunched network, SuperJANET 5, offers...
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Free poetry by post
Poems on the Underground - founded in London 20 years ago by academic and writer Judith Chernaik - is offering five posters from its recent collections free to lecturers and librarians. For a free...
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Alzheimer's antidote
Scientists at Liverpool University have created a new chemical compound that could be developed into a drug treatment for Alzheimer's disease. Jerry Turnbull and Ed Yates, from the university's...
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Sydney joins global club
Sydney University has joined the Worldwide Universities Network, a group of 16 research institutions in Europe, North America and Asia. The network has established 500 research mobility awards for...