Scramble for staff
As many US universities stop hiring or cut posts in the downturn, others see a chance to snap up the best and the brightest - particularly those with their own grants. Jon Marcus reports
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30 April 2009
Measuring the unmeasurable - Is it possible to pinpoint research鈥檚 economic impact?
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Can Star Wars save job cuts at London Met?
Campaigning staff at London Metropolitan University have turned to 鈥渢he Force鈥 for help in fighting hundreds of job cuts at their institution.A spoof scene from Star Wars has been posted on YouTube,...
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Bullied Blogger: 鈥業 need to do something to get me out of this hole鈥
20 April: I was shocked by the pre-disciplinary report sent last Friday. I feel I am a fool to have thought that the pro vice-chancellor for law and social sciences was in any way going to give a...
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Ucea makes 0.3 per cent pay offer
Employers鈥 organisation says move is 鈥榬ealistic, responsible and credible鈥 in the prevailing economic conditions. Melanie Newman reports
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Edinburgh students reward best teachers
Eusa awards ceremony recognises the top of the pedagogic pops. Rebecca Attwood reports
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UCU to ballot for strike action
Ucea 鈥榖ewildered鈥 as move is announced less than halfway through an agreed timetable for negotiations. Melanie Newman reports
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Terror suspects on student visas released without charge
All of the men arrested earlier this month under the auspices of the Terrorism Act 2006 have been released without charge, but most have been handed over to the immigration authorities. Twelve men...
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Disappointment greets Budget announcement
No new money for places or researchUniversities must fight for grantsSavings demanded from research councils and institutions拢50m for Technology Strategy Board Any hope that more money may be made...
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Book of the week: Architecture Depends
A call for architects to rejoin the messy world delights Flora Samuel
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The week in books
How We Live and Why We Die: The Secret Lives of Cells by Lewis Wolpert, professor of biology as applied to medicine, department of anatomy and developmental biology, University College London. Faber...
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Al-Qaeda Goes to College
Anthony Glees says this book fails to consider the threat to academia posed by terrorism's side effects
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Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America
Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America. By Kathleen M. Brown. Yale University Press, 448pp, 拢25.00. ISBN 9780300106183. Published 3 February 2009
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, London WC1
1. A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter Harvard Business School Publishing, 拢14.99 ISBN 97814221797102. Tort Law, Second Edition by Emily Finch and Stefan Fafinski Pearson Education, 拢10.99 ISBN...
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Splendors and Miseries of the Brain: Love, Creativity, and the Quest for Human Happiness
Prashanth A K admires the exuberance of this ambitious study, but not its central thesis