Times are tough, say majority of Irish academics
Post-2007 conditions are worse, workloads are higher and it鈥檚 鈥榓ll about the money鈥 for management, report three-quarters of survey respondents
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World in brief 鈥 2 July 2015
Higher education news from around the globe
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Lord Rees on the future of UK research
Haldane unbound would be as dangerous as unchecked utilitarianism, argues the astronomer royal
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Impaired drivers of higher education growth
David Willetts is wrong: the sector is put at risk by the student loans system鈥檚 structural flaws, warns Andrew McGettigan
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The pleasure and pain of a good pair of shoes
Heels are instruments both of torture and feminism, says Sally聽Feldman
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Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham 鈥 2 July 2015
Comic conclusions on the world of doctoral study
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The UCU needs to adjust its focus
I worked as principal caseworker for the University and College Union branch at the University of Exeter for more than five years, handling more than 250 cases during that period. It is good to read...
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Courting disaster
It is a failure of common sense for a Russell Group university to dismiss one of its most successful and highly cited academics without exhaustively exploring the grounds for compromise (鈥淒ismissal...
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All about that baseline
On 16 June, Alex Chisholm, chief executive of the Competition and Markets Authority, wrote a letter to Sajid Javid, the new secretary of state at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills,...
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Lone support
Nicole Westmarland鈥檚 heartfelt article about the challenges of widowhood struck a chord with me: both my mother and my sister lost their husbands when they were in their early forties and raised...
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It鈥檚 a generation thing
The proportion of academic posts held by those who are from black and minority ethnic backgrounds is reported as 鈥渄ropping away鈥 with respect to leadership and more senior positions (鈥淚n the minority...
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Strive towards equilibrium
It鈥檚 refreshing to hear that once upon a time, the pendulum swung in the other direction with regard to teaching and research (鈥淟ook back in wonder: the invention of academic 鈥榯radition鈥欌, Opinion,...
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Face value
Disappointing that in an issue generally highlighting the inappropriateness of Sir Tim Hunt鈥檚 comments on 鈥済irls鈥 in laboratories, Times Higher Education illustrated George Osborne and Vince Cable...
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Laurie Taylor 鈥 2 July 2015
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