Leader: If you can't beat them, blog them
Universities are coming to terms with the internet, but its dizzying pace of change still presents them with one of their greatest challenges. American institutions, in particular, are petrified by...
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Leader: Answer to the 'experts'
This week's row over whether the suffragettes should be considered terrorists will soon be forgotten, but the exchanges are significant for what they say about the relationship between academics and...
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Today's news
Universities unite for joint physics school Birmingham, Nottingham and Warwick universities today announced the creation of a joint graduate school for physics. The Midlands Physics Alliance, with ?3...
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Today's news
Dundee blames planned cuts on pay deal A university's announcement of plans to cut jobs has raised fears that the effects of last year's inflation-busting pay rise for lecturers are starting to bite...
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Research Interchange Grants
Deadline: 21/03/2007
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Research Grants
Deadline: 28/02/2007
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Postdoctoral Study Grants
Deadline: 31/03/2007
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Fellowships in occupational and environmental health
Deadline: 01/04/2007
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Pathology research
Deadline: 01/03/2007
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Today's news
Academics in state over Will Hutton 'race-row' Will Hutton, the author and left-leaning polemicist, is at the centre of a race row after describing a respected Asian professor of economics as a “...
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Today's news
A million more pay top rate as Brown lets allowances lag More than a million extra people have been drawn into the top-rate tax net since Labour took power as a result of Gordon Brown’s failure to...
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Sex parity 50 years off
Women will soon outnumber men at lecturer level, but professorial posts still elude them. Tony Tysome reports. Female lecturers will outnumber their male counterparts at UK universities in just two...
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Want to tell a lie? Put it in an e-mail
Academics' suspicions about the truthfulness of e-mails from students and colleagues are well founded, according to new research. Psychologists have found that one in seven of all communications in...
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'We don't want students to start to think about ethics after their degree'
Al Dowie has been appointed to co-ordinate ethics teaching across Scotland's five medical schools Two years on from the inquiry into how the doctor Harold Shipman was able to commit so many murders,...
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On the move...
* Oxford University has appointed: Marta Kwiatkowska , professor of computer science at Birmingham University, to the chair of computing systems and a fellowship of Trinity College from July; Leslie...