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Lecturers told to rat on top-up fee rivals
Derby University has enlisted its staff to spy on rival institutions as the competition for students hots up at the start of top-up fees year. In a recent e-mail that was passed to The Times Higher...
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Staff cash in on consultancy
A new university elite encompassing old and new institutions has emerged from the first public survey of earnings generated from academics' consultancy work. Imperial College London and Cranfield and...
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'Doing research is not like a tap you can turn on at a moment's notice'
John Loughhead warns that only more investment in energy research will avert crisis and sustain our needs This week's disruption of Russian gas supplies to Western Europe highlights the growing...
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On the move...
Nottingham University has made the following promotions: Lorraine Young becomes professor of molecular embryology in the medical school; Sharon Monteith becomes professor of American studies; Jeffrey...
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Elite urge shift to light-touch audit
Research universities want mini-reviews to replace the RAE but post-92s are against. Anthea Lipsett reports Research-led universities believe that the 2008 research assessment exercise should be the...
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AUT slated for preparing action ahead of pay talks
University employers have accused the Association of University Teachers of refusing to "engage seriously" in pay talks for 2006-07 after the union declared an industrial dispute before the start of...
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Teachers wanted for really cool class
If you scowled into your scarf on your way to work in the cold this morning, remember, things could be far worse. Students at Sheffield Hallam University are being invited to the Mongolian...
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Next issue
Ideological match John Gray on Leszek Kolakowski and the links between the neocons and Marx John Sutherland visits UCL's Wilkins Library
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New Year Honours
KNIGHTS BACHELOR John Ball , Sedleian professor of natural philosophy, Oxford University. Ivor Crewe , DL, vice-chancellor, Essex University and lately president, Universities UK. Allen...
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Lancaster's global meeting of minds
Academics at Lancaster University are to be given the freedom to pitch ideas for year-long research activities in a venture modelled on a famed US institute associated with Albert Einstein, John von...
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Former Umist staff may strike
Work in the laboratories and workshops of the UK's largest academic institution threatens to be disrupted as academic support and technical staff at Manchester University prepare for a strike ballot...
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The ex-dictator and his degree of anonymity
For Africans hoping to study here 30 years ago, it helped to be a deposed despot. Huw Richards on just-released National Archives papers for 1975 "There is always something new out of Africa,"...
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Too much hot air - and too little time
Climate-change funding needs a rethink, a leading researcher tells Becky McCall One of Britain's pre-eminent climate change experts has attacked the research councils for a lack of understanding of...