Quiet space for retreat if the spirit takes you
Contemplative spaces are still new to many campuses but, as Charlie Fox reports, whether for religious reflection or time out from a heavy workload, people find them a breath of fresh air It's 8 o'...
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Inside track...
Our occasional column keeps you abreast of developments in the jobs market, from tip-offs and career pointers to who's on the move in your field Chemical attraction A ?17 million investment in new...
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Oh no - they won't go
As ageing staff stay longer in the job, US universities find it hard to bring in young academics, says Jon Marcus. US universities, concerned about a shortage of staff when those hired four decades...
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Student clash ends in killings
A verbal argument between students at the Beirut Arab University last week turned violent, spreading out on to the streets and leaving two students dead and more than 160 students and protesters...
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University heads cleared of harassment charges
Sexual harassment charges against two senior managers of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, levelled by a dean who was being investigated for irregularly awarding her married lover a masters...
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Former security staff land top posts in Russian government
A study by a leading researcher into post-Soviet power elites has found that four out of five political leaders and state administrators in Russia are active or former members of the KGB or successor...
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Scientists risk prosecution
Russian academics with foreign funding fear espionage charges, writes Vera Rich. The Russian authorities' "indifference" towards science is driving scholars to seek Western funding, putting them at...
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All-seeing eye watches but often fails to notice
Research shows CCTV is oversold, but its ubiquity stifles work on other means of crime prevention, says Mike Press. Tackling crime is not rocket science - it is more complicated than that. But...
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Bridge the great divide so all can achieve
Does it matter that "vocational learners" progress to higher education at about half the rate of those on academic programmes? If access to higher education for vocational and academic learners alike...
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Third wave unveiled
The London School of Economics has unveiled a portrait of the eminent sociologist Anthony Giddens in its library. The former director of the LSE is said to like it, having wanted something "a bit...
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Anarchy in the UK
Sir Martin Rees, incumbent president of the Royal Society and Astronomer Royal, tried to incite anarchy among university officials who are too obsessed with the research assessment exercise and...
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It's just not cricket
Talking of anarchy, John Hood, the beleaguered vice-chancellor of Oxford University who recently lost his struggle to revamp the way the university is governed, still sees himself as a fitting...
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No truffling collaboration
To illustrate her new book on communication skills for medical students, Cathy Jackson of Dundee University turned to her colleague, Geoff Gadd, who is a cartoonist in his spare time. Neatly bringing...
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Caliphate: a fantasy worth dying for?
Calls to revive a 'golden age' under a Muslim head of state are part of a dangerous distortion of Islamic history, Robert Irwin argues. Although Edward Said was famous for his angry polemic...
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UK must get with the systems to stay in front
A merger of biology and engineering could help to realise the promise of the Human Genome Project, writes Denis Noble. When the medical and engineering sciences come together to consider the future...