Among the pod people
Wikis, blogs, podcasts and memory sticks are transforming the ease, reach and interactivity of conferences - and in some cases doing away with a physical event entirely. Stephen Phillips surveys a...
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Brainy is the new black
You can't skirt the issue, insists Sally Feldman - academic intercourse is all that matters, and conference style is about dressing to pull. So, isn't it high time you learnt to decode the sartorial...
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Dear Ralph...
Help! I've agreed to organise a conference for my professional body. I've never done one before. What should I think about? There are two things to remember. First, don't panic. Second, both...
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En suite smell of success
The Olympic Games are coming to Britain and, with them, thousands of visitors who will need somewhere to stay - a fact not lost on Kent University. But, reports Michael North, it is not the only...
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'Even if event managers do not aspire to Olympic pools, they know features such as podcasting are de rigueur'
When universities contemplate building swimming pools to attract Olympic teams rather than students, many will feel that the external visitors' tail is wagging the campus dog. Olympic-size pools do...
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Spark a spliffing debate
Want to make a mark with a wide audience? Can your smoking-hot research be linked to something controversial such as drug reclassification or sex? Grab that newsworthy element by the horns and sell...
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Deadlock as bosses issue talks ultimatum
Higher education faced a long and increasingly bitter battle over pay this week as unions and employers hit deadlock over negotiations. Geoffrey Copland, chairman of the Universities and Colleges...
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Shameless students put tutors in e-mail hell
Students once would only dare to approach a lecturer with a meek knock and a humble "Excuse me, professor". But now they bombard lecturers with e-mail messages at all hours of the day to make banal...
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'Some people are biologically more resilient to stress than others'
Avshalom Caspi, winner of the Wolfson Research Merit Award, will use the money for his research into stress Moving to the UK a decade ago paid off handsomely for Avshalom Caspi, of the Institute of...
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Wolfson winners
* The winners of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award are: Avshalom Caspi of the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London; Xiangqian Jiang of Huddersfield University; Varinder...
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Ellis case first test of race act
New laws have put Leeds University under notice to take action against lecturer Frank Ellis over his comments on race and IQ in an episode that has split opinion. Claire Sanders reports Leeds is...
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Budget surprise signals research funding revamp
Chancellor Gordon Brown this week announced the biggest potential shake-up of research funding in a generation. In his 2006 budget speech, he said that the Government would merge the Medical Research...
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Remove ads for clinical trials, student job shops told
Student job centres have been told to take down advertisements seeking people to test drugs in the wake of the clinical trial in London that left six men seriously ill. The National Association of...
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NUS told 'oppose boycott'
An emergency motion calling on student leaders to review their uncritical support for lecturers' industrial action will be submitted for debate at the National Union of Students' annual conference...
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Chemistry closure 'unviable'
The manager who devised Sussex University's plan to close its chemistry department has admitted that his scheme was "intellectually unviable" and "unworkable". The admission by Jonathan Bacon, dean...