Sorry saga of PhDs
Public funding of postgraduate research in arts and humanities has a threefold purpose: * To provide resources for research and scholarship * To support training for students who wish to prepare for...
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Sorry saga of PhDs
As a recent PhD graduate in management I would be interested in helping to found an organisation to act as a forum for the experiences and interests of PhDs seeking academic or research-related...
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Mexico City
As the impasse over the 15-week student occupation of the National Autonomous University of Mexico continues, officials accepted that there is no time to complete class work for the spring semester....
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Rome seen as never before
ROME An ambitious programme of archaeological excavations is laying bare large new areas of ancient Rome and forcing archaeologists and historians to rethink many long-established and generally...
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Leonardo rides again
The European Commission has appointed a new president. Harriet Swain weighs up the future implications for universities. Crisis in the European Commission, which led to this summer's clear-out of...
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On the move
The University of Manchester has appointed Rodger Pannone, former president of the Law Society, deputy chairman of council from September 1999 to July 2000, after which he will become chairman. Tony...
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Fed-up fee-payers set to sue
Universities face a wave of student litigation because of a failure to grasp their changing contractual relationship with fee-paying undergraduates, an academic lawyer has said. Tim Birtwistle of the...
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Learning the lessons of a mature market
In the first of a series on education at the close of the 20th century, Brian Rix celebrates the return of lifelong learning. When I left school at 17, my father, who was in the shipping business,...
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Clusters at the mercy of planners
Silicon Valley (and other US high-tech clusters) developed over more than 30 years through a serendipitous combination of good universities, supportive state governments and big federal contracts,...
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Sorry saga of PhDs
A jobless English PhD points out what appears to be a paradox: "I thought that if the university and the Arts and Humanities Research Board was so keen to fund me for three years, it must have...
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Sorry saga of PhDs
As a graduate teaching assistant, I have been very well-prepared for teaching, research and administration. I undertook Keele's teaching and learning in higher education programme, which will give me...
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Sorry saga of PhDs
Here at the Centre for Medieval Studies we run a very successful training programme for our research students. Potential PhD applicants should consider opportunities for training and work experience...
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Fighting a fear of isolation
Western academics must not forget their Serbian colleagues in the war's aftermath, Dejan Djokic argues. Pressure on Slobodan Milosevic to resign is building from without and within the Federal...
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Sorry saga of PhDs
The Research Careers Initiative has encouraged institutions to provide career planning courses for contract researchers, but sadly many have poor take-up. The RCI is now investigating more flexible...
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Sorry saga of PhDs
No one told me it was going to be easy to get funding for my PhD or to find a job afterwards. I spent four years in different jobs after completing my MPhil, paying off debts and saving for three...