Tips from Down Under to make fees policy pay
Australia's experience of tuition fees means England has little to fear, writes Grant Harman. The Labour government's income-contingent variable fees plan for English universities is moving...
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An Offa Lampl can refuse
Speculation is intensifying as to who will head the new Office for Fair Access if the higher education bill becomes law. Millionaire philanthropist Sir Peter Lampl has told Charles Clarke, the...
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Natfhe's excellent negotiators
While the Association of University Teachers deploys one of the most provocative weapons in its fight against the proposed new pay framework (an exam and assessment boycott), lecturers' union Natfhe...
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Randall's home from home
The embryonic Justice Sector Skills Council is so confident that it will receive ministerial approval by the end of the month that it has found itself premises on Gray's Inn Road in London. The new...
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Chip off the old block
Nepotism would appear to stalk the hallowed halls of the Geological Society of London. The current issue of the society's magazine Geoscientist contains a feature on Portland stone lavishly...
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Tough pillow talk
Warwick University students this week launched an attempt to recapture the world record for the largest pillow fight ever. Earlier this month, 967 Warwick students set the mark, but it was soon...
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Reunited: 'Birkbeck, quite rightly, fancies itself'
John Wardle, aka Jah Wobble, studied humanities at Birkbeck College from 1996 to 2000. The former Public Image Limited bassist is now a music producer. In 1996, after a good few years of...
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Why I... recommend greater openness for PhD vivas
Ten years ago, the sociologist Peter Burnham wrote that the PhD viva is "one of the best-kept secrets in British higher education". A decade later, many academics and research students feel that the...
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Learn from rising tiger
Central planning is out as China, unlike the UK, prepares for a globalised future, says Bill Macmillan. The internationalisation of higher education and the fact that there is already a global market...
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Budget bottom line: decline
Full economic costing will harm research outside the elite circle - to the country's cost, says David Gillingham. In the week that Gordon Brown outlines his budget and offers the carrot of extra...
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Getting the cold shoulder? Elbow your way in...
Young academics often feel isolated and ill treated in a new job. The solution is to get connected, says Susan Bassnett More than 30 years ago, just after my 21st birthday, I took up my first...
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Jobwatch: Linguists require cunning
A specialism in medieval French knitting is not enough to secure a job and a first-class degree may not win AHRB funding. Pat Leon looks at the problems faced by language departments Falling student...
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Who got that job?
Claire Atkins, 32 School Manager School of Ocean and Earth Science Southampton Oceanography Centre Job advertised in The Times Higher , June 6 2003 A desire to get back to her Hampshire roots was...
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'15 rounds with Tyson' can be a knockout
Marathon three-hour teaching blocks left staff and students reeling at first. But refinements have made the strategy a success. Stephen Halliday reports When Buckingham Business School introduced a...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name : Mike Rowe Age : 36 Job : Lecturer in policing in the department of criminology, Leicester University. Salary :...