Bad managers cause stress
Aggressive and poor management is one of the main causes of high levels of stress and illness among staff in both further and higher education according to Natfhe, the University and College...
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Forensic centre pioneers the scientific study of mummies
Manchester University has launched what it claims is the world's first centre for biomedical and forensic studies in Egyptology. The move follows pioneering work on developing methods of studying...
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Oxford inquiry promises sparks
Members of Oxford University's new commission of inquiry have begun their deliberations on the internal and external workings of England's oldest seat of learning with instructions to "be prepared to...
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Temp problems
The layout of an advertisement for lectureships in African politics at Oxford University last week may have stopped a few hearts beating. The ad, which appeared in the press placed the words "...
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Drunk with power
Arithmetical revisionism struck with a vengeance in the Open Business School's trawl of alumni to find out if they would mind being offered crates of wine as an inducement to recruit students onto...
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Nasty scratch
Ivy League universities share the Oxbridge tendency to be rude about each other, and an example from the Princeton-educated F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Crack-up (published posthumously in 1945)...
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Second thoughts
(Photograph) - Second thoughts: Sculptor Josefina de Vasconcellos has unveiled one of her own works for the second time at Bradford University on her 90th birthday. "Reunion" was commissioned by the...
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Forest clue to carbon mystery
The search for the world's missing carbon "sinks" is leading to findings that "go against every ecologist's text book", a conference was told last week. Paul Curran, professor of geography at...
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Community care `stress'
Almost three-quarters of family doctors in a nationwide survey feel they have patients who are under strain from the Government's policy of community care. This is the finding of Colin Francome,...
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Treatment promises to kill malaria
Malaria kills up to five million people around the world every year. Now teams of researchers in Australia are developing new cures for an age-old menace. The World Health Organisation's optimistic...
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Pesticide death toll under microscope
Pesticide use by farmers could be reduced after a Southampton University study of the impact of the chemicals on farmland insects. The Pounds 500,000 project, called Scarab, is being carried out by...
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Radical college on the ropes
Such is the financial crisis hitting American higher education -- particularly small, liberal arts colleges -- that some are doing the unthinkable, sacking staff, and even abolishing academic tenure...
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Study line
(Photograph) - Study line: Eurostar, operator of the first channel tunnel services between Paris, Brussels and London, may introduce a student concessionary fare when its full fare structure is...
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Universities on guard for return of quality auditor
For the second year running, Australian universities are being subject to a federal quality audit. At stake is almost $80 million (Pounds 36.4 million) in additional grants. Review teams from the...
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Protesters recoup research funding
The French government has made concessions on public research funding after two demonstrations and a laboratory strike by staff of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. As...