Are sabbaticals being phased out?
With never-ending teaching and administrative commitments, finding time to write a book, visit a distant library, or carry out experiments is a challenge. That is why the sabbatical - that period of...
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'Blunkett is in denial of his impairment as an experience'
Disability theorist Paul Darke (right) has an MA in American literature from Keele and a PhD in film studies from Warwick. His doctorate probed the pernicious stereotyping of disability in films - "...
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1.2% of profs... 11% of the UK workforce
For disabled academics facingdiscrimination, new figures in The THES speak for themselves. Helen Hague reports. Eleven per cent of adults in work are disabled - but only 1.2 per cent of professors in...
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In Everyman's footsteps
Geneticist Luca Cavalli-Sforza says there is no scientific basis for race. Now his latest project has been attacked for bigotry. Ayala Ochert reports. US President Bill Clinton was full of praise...
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Jewish priests demand proof they don't have 'holy' genes
At the Centre for Genetic Anthropology, University College London, biologists have been tracing the legacy of Y-chromosomes in the genetic material of modern and ancient peoples living beside the Red...
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Rio de Janeiro
Professors and students at Rio de Janeiro's state universities are using lecture rooms to hold concerts and dance sessions to promote cultural activities pending the conclusion of a strike by...
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Petaling Jaya
A growing number of Malaysian students are appealing against expulsion from their universities on non-academic grounds. Offences include "attitude problems" and "indecent dressing". It has been...
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Abuja
Despite anxieties over its potential as a training ground for fundamentalists, the Nigerian federal government has signed an agreement with the Kano state government to build a $300 million (Pounds...
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New York
Human Rights Watch has awarded one of 28 annual Hellman/Hammett grants to Serbian professor Svetlana Slapsak. Professor Slapsak was active in the peace movement and, when the Bosnian war broke out,...
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Rome
The Vatican has approved the Ex corde Ecclesiae, setting down rules for Roman Catholic universities in America. Professors of theology will now require approval from their local bishops before they...
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Sources for research funding
LEVERHULME TRUST www.leverhulme.org.uk Research Interchange Grants Aim: to support visits with the objective of fostering a research project, or developing a field of research or a highly-specialised...
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Don's Diary
Tuesday Wait for my flight to South Korea, where I meet David, a PhD student. I ponder on how Korea will compare to the other Southeast Asian countries I know. As an anthropologist and historian, I...
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On the move
Nick Reilly, chairman and managing director of Vauxhall Motors and vice-president of General Motors, is to be chair of the Adult Learning Inspectorate. Bob Boucher, vice-chancellor of UMIST, is to be...
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University to run failing school
Newcastle University is to create Britain's first research-led community school. About 900 pupils will enrol at the school, which will be jointly run by the university and the local education...
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Fees report sparks Russell rift
Vice-chancellors of Russell Group universities are divided over a report they commissioned. It is published today and calls for the introduction of top-up fees in all universities. Economists who...