HE: a fast track to success
For months, the Liberal Democrats could not find anyone to champion higher education despite their eagerness to make their stance against top-up fees a trump card. But now, everyone will want the job...
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How will Tory spokes-man fare?
China is revving up for a major British higher education public relations ambush, with both Bill Rammell, the Higher Education Minister, and Boris Johnson, his Conservative counterpart, arriving the...
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Invitation to name and shame
Fears about the literacy of undergraduates hit a new trough last week when the National Union of Students sent out an invitation to the opening of its surprisingly glossy new building. While...
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You must be artichoking
In his recent visit to Goldsmiths, University of London, Alan Bennett, the playwright and author shared a favourite anecdote about Alan Walker Tyson, the late Oxford musicologist. Tyson, notorious...
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Collective campaign for real politics
Modern democracy has mutated into a one-party system, writes Tony Benn, in the first of a series on challenges to the liberal state When people won the vote, in the century between the 1832 Reform...
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Some dumb insolence might get their ear
Through co-operation, academics have the power to save higher education from the bureaucrats, writes Lewis Elton When a soldier obeys an order in the letter but not the spirit, it is called dumb...
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Wow the crowds, avoid the crook
Speaking at a conference can be terrifying. Kevin Fongadvises holding your nerve and avoiding fisticuffs with the bloke asking irritating questions As The Times Higher publishes its conference...
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Show a red card or just play on?
What should you do when a colleague expresses controversial and offensive views? You must take academic freedom into account, says Harriet Swain, but also take notes, tread warily and act...
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Dream job causes sleepless nights
Name : Philip Plowden Age : 45 Job : Associate dean, clinical legal education, Northumbria University Law School. Salary : Associate-dean level. Background : I did an English degree but now I'm...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. I am not yet a union member and was therefore not balloted on the industrial action on...
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Research jobs fillip at UCLan
The University of Central Lancashire is out to recruit senior academics and their research teams in a bid to boost its academic reputation. The university is advertising in this week's Times Higher...
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Who got that job?
Mark Llewellyn, postdoctoral research assistant, department of English, Liverpool University, based at St. Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, Flintshire. Job advertised in The Times Higher , August 19,...
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Faculties go grey as young shun maths and education
Maths and education departments are becoming increasingly grey-haired as universities struggle to entice young staff on to their academic teams, a report shows. The research councils last week...
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Take me to your leaders
Ewart Wooldridge, chief executive of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, has visited nearly 100 universities and colleges over the past couple of years. "Every institution has been...
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