Do not be shy about retiring
It takes a working lifetime to secure a financially comfortable retirement. Sue Ward gives a guide to pensions Postgraduates lead insecure lives, and many do not find permanent jobs until they are...
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Letter of law crushes hope for letters after name
A É«ºÐÖ±²¥ Office crackdown on visas has left many overseas students facing deportation. Alan Thomson reports Overseas PhD students are facing deportation after a Government visa crackdown deprived them...
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A rough guide to lecturing
Olga Wojtas talks to a group of tyro teachers whose book aims to pass on a few tricks of the trade Martin Gough did it confidently, and was greeted with looks of blank horror. David Allan did it in...
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Five tips for new teachers in higher education
From Jill Bourne, now teaching at University College of Wales, Cardiff. 1. Find out where the nearest lavatory is. 2. Double the time you've already allocated for writing a lecture and marking essays...
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The balloon debate finale
Which academic faculty is the most vital? Advocates for science, social science and humanities put their case Plunging to earth in a hot air balloon, as our groups of academics have been doing for...
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Project to detect polluters
(Photograph) - Dust bowl: Ian Stone and Jeff Jones check an "inverted frisbee dust deposit gauge" as part of a project to detect polluters. The scientists from Exeter University use X-rays and scan...
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Letter
A typesetting error in Alan Waton's letter last week meant that reservations about working with the Committee of Vice Chancellors were attributed to him instead of to his colleague, Steve Reicher. We...
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A rotten reminder
Anyone wanting a reason for why government should be kept at arms length by the universities need only have turned up a few minutes early for Mrs Shephard's statement and taken in Sir Nicholas's 15...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF DERBY DUniv: Kim Barnett, former Derbyshire cricket captain; Martin Bell, journalist and broadcaster; Maxwell Craven, keeper of antiquities at Derby Museum and Art Gallery. The...
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Troubles and strife
ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES Edited by Martin Bulmer Routledge, quarterly, Pounds 30.00 (individuals), Pounds 77.00 (institutions) ISSN 0141 9870 This special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies does not...
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Sickening violations
HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS Edited by Jonathan Mann Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, quarterly, $24.00 (students), $36.00 (individuals), $80.00...
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Appointments
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL The BBSCRC has appointed Raymond Taylor, executive director of Medicinal Chemistry at the Merck Sharp and Dohme Research Laboratories...
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Continental congress
EUROPEAN REVIEW OF HISTORY Edited by Bruno Cabanes et al Carfax, twice yearly, Pounds 28.00 (individuals), Pounds 78.00 (institutions) ISSN 1350 7486 Aside from the deplorably high institutional...
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When did you last feel surprised?
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Edited by Walter Carlsnaes Sage, quarterly, Pounds 30.00 (individuals) Pounds 90.00 (institutions) ISSN 1354 0661 The establishment of a specifically...
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Rayon stockings and Finnish mugs
Things Edited and published by students on the Victoria and Albert Museum/Royal College of Art history of design course Twice yearly, Pounds 6.00 ISSN 1356 921x Things has now reached its third issue...