Flexing muscles will not improve the figure
The unions' move to a ballot over industrial action in their quest for better pay is premature, writes Ucea chair Geoffrey Copland Vice-chancellors have been left disappointed and disillusioned by...
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A war waged on liberty in liberty's own name
Paranoia about Muslim 'extremists' has seen the West trample on the very rights it claims to uphold, argues Abdul Wahid Is there an "extremist" under your bed? Worse still, a Muslim one? The...
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Stand - but you must also deliver
The prospect of paying for his kids to get poor teaching leads Tim Birkhead to rethink the need to train lecturers It is remarkable how having one's own offspring at university changes your view of...
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Take a board but keep the brolly
If drizzly old Blighty is getting you down, get networking and do your homework on research hot spots. But don't plan for a one-way overseas trip - you may want to come home, says Harriet Swain...
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Not all dancing queens and dinners
Name: Tina Overton Age: 46 Job: Senior lecturer in chemistry, Hull University, and director of the 糖心Vlog Academy Physical Sciences Centre. Salary: ?40,000 Practical training/education/...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. In the academic year 2003-04, as an MPhil student, I studied full-time for a PhD at a...
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Who got that job?
Kate Dodd Director of student life, Birmingham University Advertised in The Times Higher, March 14, 2005 Birmingham University's decision to appoint a director of student life shows just how far...
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Sex offence checks not just for schools, lawyers warn
The employment of sex offenders in schools may have captured the headlines and dominated the political agenda, but universities cannot afford to turn a blind eye to concerns on their own doorsteps,...
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RAE 2008: New guidelines confound v-cs
Senior university officials have called for clearer guidance on what ratings in the 2008 research assessment exercise will mean for academics as they prepare for the final criteria to be unveiled...
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Ireland's referral of dispute with UK over nuclear fuel recycling at Sellafield to arbitral tribunal under UN Convention on the Law of the Sea should be treated as breach of duty to cooperate under ar
Luxembourg, 19 January 2006 C-459/03, Commission of the European Communities v Ireland Opinion of Advocate General Poiares Pessoa Maduro on 19 January 2006 (link to English version when available)....
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Directives on recognition of diplomas do not preclude partial recognition, limiting scope of acitivities that applicant from another EU country may perform: judgment (C-330/03)
Luxembourg, 19 January 2006 C-330/03, Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos v Administracion del Estado Judgment of the Court of Justice (First Chamber) on 19 January 2006 (link to...
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Europe is missing out on the agricultural biotech revolution, says agbiotech pioneering scientist
Brussels, 19 Jan 2006 Prof. Dr. Marc Van Montagu, Chairman International Plant Biotechnology Organisation (IPBO) University of Ghent, and president of the European Federation of Biotechnology, told...
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Commissioner Andris Piebalgs underlines the key role of research in energy, during visit to technological site
Brussels, 19 Jan 2006 The European Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs underlined the need to act now to ensure a secure energy supply for Europe, during his visit of the "Energy Research Site" at...
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Agenda of the Research Working Party, 19 January 2006
Brussels, 19 Jan 2006 Full text of Document 211/06 1. (poss) Specific Programme "Cooperation": ­ conclusion of first reading discussions held on Wednesday 18 January doc. 136/05 RECH 182...
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Millionaires' club - academics reap the rewards of research A growing number of academics are joining the ranks of the super-rich as they sell their ideas and inventions through spin-off companies....