Read our lips: top-up fees simply won't work
Labour's conference has convinced Ian Gibson that the government won't listen to reason There may have been some inspired rhetoric that set off a few feel-good sparks at last week's Labour Party...
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Harry Kroto
Plain English was a bigcasualty of the Kelly affair. The secret service and Blair's advisers need to be taught a lesson I seem to remember that when I was a kid the primary aim of English lessons in...
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Text Tories for a fee-free year
As the Conservatives gathered in Blackpool for their party conference, they indulged in an incentive scheme to win the student vote. Shadow education secretary Damian Green encouraged students to...
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UUK retires to the fringes
Meanwhile, at last week's Labour Party Conference, vice-chancellors flaunting the fact they were no longer pushovers suffered something of a setback at their fringe meeting. Universities UK delegates...
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V-c runs on mystery bubbly
The Diary can disclose what fuels Alison Richard, the new vice-chancellor of Cambridge University. A sneaky peak in the premier's fridge revealed an industrial-sized box of chocolate bars and two...
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Cuppa for Karzai? No problem
The Wills effect has given the citizens of St Andrews, where the prince is studying, an unflappable attitude to dignitaries. Hamid Karzai, president of Afghanistan, last week visited the university...
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Don's diary: Cape Town and gown
April 2001 I am summonsed to my tailor in a back street in Cape Town to pick up my robe. As I squeeze past the choristers of an African Pentecostal church, I suspect I am in for a treat. So it proves...
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Why I... think postgraduates need more support to take on teaching roles
Amid the drive to widen participation and increase the number of young people receiving a university education, the small matter of actually teaching them deserves more attention. There has been a...
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Chance to advance ....
Geoffrey Copland says employers have moved towards a fair pay deal for staff, but Sally Hunt thinks they have done just the opposite and have engaged in mudslinging to obscure the real issues...
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.... or vicious gamesmanship?
Geoffrey Copland says employers have moved towards a fair pay deal for staff, but Sally Hunt thinks they have done just the opposite and have engaged in mudslinging to obscure the real issues In last...
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Be rigorous at the start and the marriage will survive
The relationship between a PhD student and their supervisor can be a tricky one. Susan Bassnett has a recipe for success. Sooner or later, most academics find themselves examining a doctoral thesis....
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Jobwatch: Business Studies is booming
Aston and Central England universities, Imperial College London and Templeton College, Oxford, are all battling it out to attract top business academics. Pat Leon reports. University business schools...
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Who got that job?
Susan Dyke, 36 Job advertised, THES, January 10 BRUNEL UNIVERSITY, WEST LONDON Student Data Officer (Internal) £21,125 - £,339 pa plus London weighting of £1,638 pa Brunel University created the post...
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Spin doctor schools students in dark arts
A former No10 spokes-man shows how professional experience can be invaluable in launching a masters course. Chris Bunting writes. Weeks spent sitting in the public galleries of the Hutton inquiry...
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A gossip-free space to think
Working from home can be fruitful, but watch out for the landlord catching you in your pants, says Mark Griffiths. Like many of my colleagues, I try to work at least one day a week from home....