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Academics expected to approve super-union The world's biggest academic "super-union" is expected to get the go-ahead today, with the result of a members' ballot on a proposed merger. Members of the...
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Although I must have acquired Arnold Kettle's An Introduction to the English Novel in the early 1970s while I was a research student at Cambridge University, it was only when I had to teach the...
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Culture's tireless populist
Although his prodigious output provokes dismissive envy, Christopher Frayling's enthusiasm for despised genres is undiminished, finds Christopher Wood Another year, another inch on the bibliography....
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RAE poachers take big game
Universities are poaching entire research teams to boost their performance in the next research assessment exercise and seize the initiative in competitive fields. Several institutions have taken big...
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A missed tick could bite into bursaries
Thousands of the poorest students facing top-up fees next year could have their university bursaries delayed because of data protection laws, it emerged this week. Prospective students must give...
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'People might work for only a third of their life. The sums don't add up'
Hugh Pemberton, lecturer in modern British history, believes academics are lucky with their pensions As the Government wrestles with Britain's pensions problem, one academic expert is happy to report...
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On the move...
Ulster University has appointed: Vyvyan Howard , formerly senior lecturer at Liverpool University, to a professorship in bioimaging; and Klaus Larres , formerly professor of politics at Royal...
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Super-union to get go-ahead
The creation of the largest academic trade union in the world was due to be confirmed this week, as members of lecturers' union Natfhe and the Association of University Teachers gave the final...
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Lara can hold a candle to Emma
Computer games will one day be judged the artistic equals of great novels, according to a straw poll of English scholars and computer scientists. The academics expect interactive narratives to...
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Manchester offer entices laureate
A US Nobel laureate has been lured to head Manchester University's new World Poverty Institute with an initial salary and support package worth Pounds 250,000. Joseph Stiglitz, a former vice-...
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MRC lays out £10m plan for bird flu
The Medical Research Council wants to earmark up to £10 million for research into avian influenza, it told the Government's Science and Technology Select Committee this week. Chief executive Colin...
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Animal lab work back on
Oxford University this week announced that building work had resumed on its new animal research facility. Construction of the biomedical centre on South Parks Road was halted in July after animal...
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Welsh net extra £8m
Welsh higher education institutions will be awarded an extra £8 million over the next two years after opposition leaders this week forced the Assembly to revise its budget. The Higher Education...
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Cranfield to train MoD
Cranfield University has secured £366 million from the Ministry of Defence to train MoD service and civilian personnel. Under the 22-year contract, the university will provide postgraduate courses to...