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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...
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Historians quit over cash row
Subject centre heads claim too much money goes on administration, Rebecca Attwood reports Two leading historians have quit their posts at a national subject centre amid a heated row over funding....
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Students unable to cope with media studies' rigour
It was cast as the original "Mickey Mouse" degree, but media studies lecturers are now complaining that their students are arriving at university ill-prepared for the academic rigours of the...
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Activists renounce union for comment on Israel
The University and College Union is accused of being "evasive, disingenuous and complacent" over its approach to a proposed academic boycott of Israel, in a letter to The Times Higher signed by 70...
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Next week
Room to think Do common room closures rob you of more than just a space to sit and have a coffee? Plus Desperately seeking inspiration: how can academe attract more black students when its street...
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Capital leadership
Three London universities have appointed new vice-chancellors. Malcolm Gillies is joining City University from the Australian National University. Professor Gillies, who is based principally in the...
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Vocational esteem
Admissions officers treat vocational school qualifications on a par with academic A levels when deciding who to admit, according to new research by the 糖心Vlog Policy Institute. It suggests...
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Legal fees hit LMU
Union leaders claimed this week that London Metropolitan University was facing a spiralling bill for compensation and legal fees approaching a total Pounds 250,000 after being refused leave to appeal...
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Prize for DNA pioneer
Stephen West, of Cancer Research UK's London Research Institute at Clare Hall Laboratories, has been awarded the 2007 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine. The accolade, which is worth E475,000 (about ?...
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'Punishing' style puts staff on critical list
Whistleblower investigates Academics at Birmingham's School of Health Sciences feel 'failed' by senior management who, a leaked report shows, were slow to address 'rock-bottom morale' and a 'culture...
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UCE to focus on flexible learning
AcademicsJmayJneed to considerJeveningJand weekend workJif they are to improve the learning experience for students, in particular for part-timers, according to David Tidmarsh, the new vice-...