News in brief - 30 October 2014
USS pensionsTobacco investments under attackThe Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) should reconsider its investments in companies that sell tobacco, arms and fossil fuels, a new campaign says....
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Dame Ann Dowling makes a case for ¡®use-inspired¡¯ research
First female president of the Royal Academy of Engineers hopes to change UK¡¯s ¡®sniffiness¡¯ about applied research
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Sabbaticals: no longer so open-ended or available?
Five academics detail how taking leave of the grind has turbocharged their work ¨C but can everyone get a break?
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Germany aims to send 50 per cent of students abroad by 2020
Plans are part of industrial strategy to steal a march on other export-driven countries
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Fred Inglis on the way we think now
Thirty years after Clifford Geertz assessed the state of thinking in the academy, the duty of academics to render the unspeakable unspeakable is imperative
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Coherent higher education policy? Far from it
Despite the introduction of postgraduate loans, the government¡¯s education funding aims remain a puzzle, says Nigel Carrington
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¡®Crick of the North¡¯ confirmed for Manchester
But centre for advanced materials will still have ¡°satellites¡± in Oxbridge and London as well as Leeds, Liverpool and Sheffield
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The impact of impact
The REF¡¯s formal assessment of the impact of academic work was highly controversial in theory: how did it play out in practice?
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World in brief - 11 September 2014
United StatesMobile phones: the ¡®invisible addiction¡¯Female students in the US spend an average of 10 hours a day on their mobile phone, while their male counterparts rack up nearly eight, a study at...
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Q&A with Paul Boyle
We speak to the new vice-chancellor of the University of Leicester and former chief executive of the ESRC
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THE World Academic Summit 2015 to take place in Melbourne
The 2015 Times Higher Education World Academic Summit will take place in Melbourne, Australia, in partnership with the University of Melbourne, it was announced today
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More postdocs, more data skills top biology sector wish list
Early results of 2014 vulnerable skills survey by BBSRC and MRC highlight concerns and importance of multidisciplinarity
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The USS: fact and fiction
We write as representatives of the Left on the Higher Education Committee and other University and College Union activists who are utterly opposed to any retreat from defending members¡¯ pensions. We...
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Combination of assets
A new world-class university that integrates existing centres of excellence would boost Thailand¡¯s development, says Kriengsak Chareonwongsak
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Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of?Life in Digital Capitalism, by Judy Wajcman
It¡¯s not machines but rather man that makes us dread the clock¡¯s tick, Stina Lyon discovers