Bulls, bears and now dinosaurs?
"Is economic history in decline?" Like all the best academic conference session titles it invited the response "It all depends what you mean by . .." Any such debate tends to have hints of the...
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Pray for today
(Photograph) - Pray for today: Jan McDonald (left), professor of drama at Glasgow University, unveils a model of a proposed new centre for the study of theatre, film and television that has won...
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Bitter pill for drugs firms
Topics that have traditionally "scared the hell" out of the pharmaceutical industry will be discussed next week at an international conference organised by the University of Wales, Cardiff, and...
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Essex excess
Alumni to be proud of nos 7 and 8: Overlooked in the media attention paid to the appointment of John Bercow as adviser to Virginia Bottomley, now shouldering responsibility for Britain's rich...
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Evolving title
Steven Jay Gould, lecturing in London last week, revealed that even the most awe-inspiring of science writers can have problems with their editors. A paper he wrote on Darwin's drawing room at Down...
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Hard times
Software failure expert Bev Littlewood of City University had much to be depressed about this week. Not only does he think we are all in imminent danger of disaster from computer failure in our...
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Political animals
No contest for the Chicago participant whose name makes it most difficult to fulfil expectation -- James Thurber of the American University. Not a bloodhound or a picaresque anecdote of Ohio...
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Out to tender
The latest bulletin from the Institute of Food Research in Norwich is a celebration of the persistence of scientists, this time in trying to find an objective measure of our subjective experiences of...
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Sock it to me
Bristol University staff have been told to pull their socks up - carefully. "The cushioning discs between the vertebrae in the spine fill with fluid during the night, replacing the fluid squeezed out...
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Recruitment agency faces data probe
A former part-time lecturer at North Tyneside College has heard this week that the Data Protection Registrar is to investigate his complaint about the way his private name and address were supplied...
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Science of the beat
Science of the beat: American west coast drummer Russ McKinnon gave a special seminar at Bournemouth University's percussion development unit this week. The unit is the only research unit in a...
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Unions agree on dual membership
A joint membership scheme has been agreed by the MSF and AUT which the unions hope will end embarrassing defections from one to the other, writes David Charter. The agreement, announced at the Trades...
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Universities pursue job grading scheme
Universities are pushing ahead with plans for a system to define staff roles in higher education "from porter through to professor". A computerised model evaluating manual, administrative, technical...
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Funding tops poll agenda
Vice chancellors aim to leave political parties in no doubt before the next election how they want funding reformed to guarantee the quality of British higher education. That means spelling out what...
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V-Cs protect quality
Universities and colleges have presented the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kenneth Clarke, with a multi-billion pound list of measures needed to protect standards in further and higher education. In...