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Rules hurt new blood,say liberal arts staff: RAE 2008 countdown
The ground rules for the 2008 research assessment exercise will unfairly penalise new academics in the humanities, it was claimed this week. The rules, unveiled by the funding councils last week,...
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Researcher gets into the spin at 80
An 80-year-old academic has created two spin-off companies from the results of experiments he conducted over almost four decades, writes Jessica Shepherd. Colin Caro, emeritus professor in...
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Government agrees to release details of visa regime
The Government this week promised universities more details of its proposed visa reforms, which institutions fear will damage overseas recruitment. Ministers have agreed to release details of the new...
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5* team crosses city to join rival
Sheffield Hallam University has netted a department of top-rated sport science researchers from neighbouring Sheffield University, just days before the start of the Winter Olympics in Italy....
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Forensic body to dissect provision
They have been branded a "savage waste of young people's time and parents' money" and a ploy to get bums on seats in universities by exploiting popular television dramas. But forensic science degrees...
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Laurie Taylor Column
As part of a new service, this column will regularly devote space to answering questions about critical aspects of the next research assessment exercise. This week's question comes from Dr "P" of the...
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Competition is healthiest option, no really
Funds should follow students. Steven Schwartz outlines what he feels should be the next big thing in reform
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Leader: Diplomat needed for thankless job
Being the most powerful person in higher education can be a thankless task. Sir Howard Newby, the departing chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, was ultimately in...
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Leader: Wheeling and dealing
Little, it seems, divides academics more than the issue of costly car parking. One union official contends that parking, even more than pay, guarantees packed meetings of academics debating the...
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Should we have faith in Dawkins? 1
Although Denis Alexander makes some superficially reasonable criticisms of Richard Dawkins's programme The Root Of All Evil? ("The devil within Dawkins", February 3), he has fundamentally...
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Should we have faith in Dawkins? 2
The article by Denis Alexander was well written and argued in a scientific way, raising issues that even a rudimentary PhD student would be aware of. This is in stark contrast to the television...
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Should we have faith in Dawkins? 3
Surely Richard Dawkins has been exposed for the true demon he is - no self-respecting scientist will listen to or associate with him again. Perhaps he has done us a favour after all. William Banks...
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Don't pay at your peril 1
So some university personnel chiefs are suggesting stopping the wages of staff if they take part in industrial action that affects assessment ("Threat to seize pay over exam boycott, February 3)....
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Don't pay at your peril 2
If employers are going to take us off the payroll for taking industrial action, I propose a week of strike action beginning October 29, 2007. That would require employers to have removed us from...