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Learn how to be boss
Anthea Lipsett reports on a course to teach leaders of research projects ways to build and manage a team Academics who struggle to run large, complex research projects and lead research teams will be...
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Queen's on quest for recruits
Queen's University Belfast is advertising 45 posts in the first tranche of a £259 million investment in staff, students and facilities. Some £28 million has been earmarked as part of the five-year...
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Who got that CASH?
"If you're going to work full time to support yourself, why not set up your own business rather than cooking burgers at McDonald's?" asks Brian Clements, director of Wolverhampton Business School's...
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Female lecturers more likely to 'freeze'
Female academics are much more likely to freeze or become incoherent when lecturing than their more confident male colleagues, according to research. Women who suffer performance anxiety are not poor...
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State aid: Commission opens formal investigation into aeronautical R&D aid granted by Belgium
Brussels, 22nd June 2006 The European Commission has opened a formal investigation under Article 88(2) of the EC Treaty into a State aid scheme introduced by Belgium to provide research and...
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June Hancock research award
Deadline: 28/07/2006
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Henry Shelford research award
Deadline: 25/08/2006
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Today's news
Redundancy fears after Liverpool university cuts Lecturers at Liverpool John Moores University face job cuts after the institution announced it would close its language and business information...
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Laurie Taylor Column
"Economics departments use old-fashioned teaching methods and fail to put their subject in touch with the modern world" - The Times Higher, June 16. Morning, Economics 2B. Morning, Professor Tom-lin-...
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Thinking I might be bereft of soccer news in Massachusetts, one of my children has just sent me a round-up of the World Cup. My neighbour's television blares news of the Giants, indifferent to what...
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Leader: Intelligent debate about evolution
To many academics, including even two lectures on creationism in a zoology degree course will seem ridiculous - akin to a flat-earth module in a geography course, only more dangerous. For Leeds...
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Leader: A web of confusion
Plenty of horror stories emerged from this week's international plagiarism conference but the greatest cause for concern was over the confusion that still surrounds this most basic of academic...
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Shaw thing
Graham Farmelo in his review of my book Science on Stage (June 16) states that I omit to mention the plays of George Bernard Shaw. Even a cursory reading of my book would have revealed that Shaw...
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These metrics don't measure up 1
The Department for Education and Skills consultation paper on replacing the research assessment exercise with income-based metrics asks: "What are the possible undesirable behavioural consequences of...