Watch out, large piano overhead
As he finally pays off his student loan, Kevin Fong recalls the good old days of making his bank manager cry and ponders the impact of top-up fees This morning I watched my little boy rolling around...
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Stick your oar in to keep door ajar
If you hear that your department is in line for closure don't lose your head, says Harriet Swain. Take a look at the decision, rally the troops and make your case. You may just win a reprieve...
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Tambourine man with a woolly scarf
Name: Paul Elmer Age: 40 Job: Senior lecturer in public relations at the University of Central Lancashire. Background: I left school at 16 and worked in journalism and public relations, including for...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. I work for a department in a new university rated 3 in the last research assessment...
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Teaching efforts are rewarded in job rejig
Female staff gain as Southampton tackles research pay bias, reports Chloe Stothart Teaching staff in universities have traditionally been portrayed as underpaid wallflowers compared with their...
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Who got that job?
Stuart Scott, lecturer in sustainable energy engineering, Cambridge University Job advertised in The Times Higher, October 21, 2005 Stuart Scott's research is not to be sniffed at - he experiments...
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Hunt for educators to head youth initiative
Education experts are in demand at Liverpool John Moores University as it expands teaching and research in response to government policies for the young. The university's faculty of education,...
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Diggers and the mappers mapped
The Discovery of Ancient India
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There's less pleasure in the easy life
The Challenge of Affluence
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The adapted view of God
Breaking the Spell
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Earthly crucibles of a people's belief
The Natural History of the Bible
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novelist who was once a merchant seaman: "It was the summer that men first walked on the moon." *...
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The regal anthems of genius
Handel and the English Chapel Royal
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Ladies with dirty jokes struck a chord
Mozart's Women