Don's diary: Farewell 'quality police'
Monday No, not flying back from Kalamazoo in post-conference triumph. Actually looking round room LW 119 wondering how best to gut it pre-retirement. The formal farewell was weeks ago - not a dry eye...
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Why I... believe it is time that research supervision had an overhaul
Tony Fell Head of the Graduate School, University of Bradford, and executive member of the UK Council for Graduate Education. Pressure from postgraduates and funding agencies has transformed the...
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Break up RAE scam
Let's scrap unfair and wasteful dual-support research funding, says Michael Driscoll It's time to get rid of the dual-support system for funding university research and replace it with a single open...
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Lab cultures put females off
The institutions of science that cause women to avoid the field must change, argues Judith Glover In common with most other industrialised countries, the UK has a long-standing record of compiling...
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Slice of job life is worth bread
Let's hear it for the sandwich degree, says Stephen Gomez. The good old sandwich degree deserves a renaissance. My faculty has offered it in sciences for nearly 30 years and, as placements tutor, I...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name: David Webb Age: 41 Job: Reader in electronic engineering and member of the photonics research group at Aston...
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US hit by fees hike and cuts in budget
Students at public universities in the US are returning to their campuses this month to find dramatically higher tuition costs and poorer service after budget cuts and increases in enrolment fees....
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Ethics fears hit tests
Undergraduates are being coerced into taking part in psychological experiments, it was claimed this week. While thousands of psychology students volunteer to be subjects in research projects every...
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Wales to look at less selective policy on research funding
The ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for Wales is likely to resist following England's move towards greater concentration of research funding, its senior officials have said. Instead, it may continue...
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Academics wish to keep dual role
Most academics are committed to both teaching and research activities and the synergy between the two informs their work, a conference heard this week. Chris Webster, professor of urban planning at...
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Today's news
Red tape delays cancer cures, researchers say The search for cures for cancer and other diseases is being strangled by red tape from Brussels and Westminster, scientists from Cancer Research UK said...
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Demand soars for plumb courses
Politicians' jibes about the contrast between highly paid plumbers and unemployable graduates have led to a boom in applications for plumbing courses. Colleges were flooded with inquiries after media...
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Top-ups are non-negotiable
Academics will sacrifice the chance of a decent pay rise if they fail to back the government over top-up fees, higher education minister Alan Johnson said this week. In his first major interview, Mr...
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In the news: Sir Martin Rees
Astronomer royal Sir Martin Rees established his name in the firmament of outspoken UK academics when he became the first scientist to address the Labour Party Conference in Brighton three years ago...
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Appointments
Dave Berger, senior counsellor at the University of Hull, has been elected to serve as chair elect for 2003-04 (following on as chair for two years from 2004-06) of the Association for University and...