Ethical and time constraints equal network failure
Researchers' scruples about networking may be hampering their careers, a report has suggested.
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Honours sacrificed to vocational growth
Hefce in dark over extent of transfer to sub-degree courses under new system. John Morgan reports
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0.5% offer piles pressure on pay bargaining
The pressure on universities to abandon national pay bargaining is likely to grow after another minimal pay offer to staff, a prominent personnel chief has argued.
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Grant winners
RESEARCH COUNCILS UKPublic Engagement with Research Catalysts• Award winner: Albert A. Rodger• Institution: University of Aberdeen• Value: £299,856A progressive model for institutional culture change...
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Raw, not for consumption
Unpublished research data must be placed beyond the FoI's reach or the academy will suffer, Kevin Schürer warns
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We aim to ensure that the transition goes as smoothly as possible
Sir Alan Langlands explains what Hefce is doing to provide help during the biggest shake-up of university funding for generations
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Squeeze me - I like it!
Our vice-chancellor has responded vigorously to news that Poppleton has become England's most "squeezed middle university".He told a hastily convened press conference in the atrium of the Human...
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Leader: Why must so many go it alone?
Pursuit of an academic career forces many scholars to make personal sacrifices that are bad for them and for the profession
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Research intelligence - Juggling act earns EPSRC mixed reviews
'Shaping capability' resulted in few changes but doubts linger about its agenda, Paul Jump writes
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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A little less égalité, a little more income, please
With public finances stretched, the French think the unthinkable on fees. Clea Caulcutt reports
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The week in higher education
• The 1994 Group was dealt a blow last month when four member universities - Durham, Exeter, York and Queen Mary, University of London - announced that they were ditching the network of "small but...
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From Where I Sit - Classified information
Higher education in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) is undergoing a period of rapid change and growth, which began well before the so-called Arab Spring. Student enrolment across the region...
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Odds and quads
These formidable Victorian women all appear in a photograph album which forms part of the archives of the Association of Head Mistresses (AHM), now held in the Modern Records Centre at the University...
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Appointments
Courtauld Institute of ArtTom NicksonA specialist in medieval architecture is to return to an institution he studied at in a teaching capacity. Tom Nickson, who is currently lecturer in the...