Summers storm still raging at Harvard
The uproar following Harvard University's president Lawrence Summers' comment at an academic conference that "issues of intrinsic aptitude" may account for the fact that fewer women than men succeed...
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Probe into finances
Suspect investment deals and financial mismanagement at a Czech university that have cost nearly £1 million are under investigation after a spate of complaints about halls of residence and a faculty...
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Far-right professor excluded
Bruno Gollnisch, second in command of France's extreme-right Front National, has been suspended again from the University of Jean Moulin Lyon-3, writes Jane Marshall in Paris. Professor Gollnisch had...
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Did A-level reforms fall victim to election fever?
David Melville, a member of the Tomlinson Group, mourns a lost opportunity for radical change The Government's long-awaited White Paper on the comprehensive package of reforms proposed by Mike...
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Making a crisis out of a drama
Natfhe, the lecturers' union, brought out the big guns this week on another pressing higher education issue. Just as Tony Blair once bizarrely championed the campaign for Coronation Street's Deirdre...
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Truly nano approach to science
Predictably, a hefty proportion of delegates at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Washington last week were male and middle-aged and were sporting a glamorous...
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Rebel becomes a cause
Voting against the party line may not seem to be the best way to win friends and influence the Labour leadership, but it does not appear to have harmed top-up fees rebel Ian Gibson. Dr Gibson,...
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Campaigned group
Rumour has it that Save British Science is changing its name to something a little less moany. But will a campaign group called Saved British Science have quite the same impact?
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Ronald Hutton: review
King Arthur has had a good year. With Jerry Bruckheimer's Hollywood blockbuster last summer and this week's television documentary by Michael Wood, his story has been subjected to renewed public...
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Why I no longer worry about side-plate food
It is five years since the fight against passive eating began way back in 2005. With the conquest of the cigarette well in hand in the late Nineties, American health reformers' attention turned to...
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Brush up act on pay
Don't reserve the big salary hikes for vice-chancellors, says former university cleaner Marg Longman Some years ago, I remember pinning a copy of The Times Higher's vice-chancellors pay survey on a...
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Thin end of generous wedge
We must stem the subtle intrusionof religion intoscience, argues Sunny Bains The agendas of those who fund science - such as drug companies or agrochemical corporations - have come under increasing...
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'With a name like Kevin Fong, I was expecting ...
... someone more foreign looking.' Our columnist falls foul of expectations in China One of the fringe benefits of lecturing is that you're likely to get asked to talk somewhere nice, possibly even...
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Instant benefits of a bit of extracurricular blogging
Weblogs help to encourage debate outside lectures. Shola Adenekan reports US colleges, students and lecturers are embracing the next big thing in internet technology. Blogs, the journal-like websites...
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Turn them on to filling the coffers
If you want alumni to give your institution cash, then you have to be prepared to put in the groundwork and make friends with them first, says Harriet Swain Remember that business studies student you...