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Agony aunt
Q I have been having severe panic attacks when addressing staff or students and have lost confidence and am under-achieving. How do I stop the self-defeating spiral? A Susie Whiten Anatomy lecturer...
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Block booking
Mobile Lego robots from five universities in the UK and Ireland will play a volleyball tournament at the University of Reading on September 13.
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World watch
All Malaysia's 33,870 students entering the country's 11 public universities will have to attend compulsory one-day seminars to improve their understanding of government policies. The move is clearly...
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Why I ... ... want to edit Britain's best student newspaper
Far too many people think that student newspapers are substandard rags full of inaccurate stories and out-of-date gossip. As the editor of Liverpool's newest student publication I want to challenge...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Ruth Deech argued scientists should recognise the government is right to delay the law on cloning The government's response on June 24 to the Human Fertilisation Embryology...
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A conflict of interest
Graham Zellick explains why v-cs should not accept a Labour peer as their chief executive Earlier this week I gave notice of resigning from the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals. I took...
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Equality by any legal means
Undervalued and underpaid women academics are using the courts to challenge sex discrimination. Tom Wilson backs their stand Walking down the corridor to her office, Jane Smith noticed an...
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With brains in mind
Sleep, diet and the right environment can help intelligence to thrive, say scientists. Bill Lucas looks at how lecturers can use this knowledge to create healthy conditions for learning It weighs...
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In the news
Mo Mowlam did not need a degree in social anthropology at Durham University to make her a people person. Her charm has been a noted aspect of her work as secretary of state for Northern Ireland. One...
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Don's diary
Tuesday The optician's letter - "it is two years since..." - had been gathering dust for some time. When I finally got round to making an appointment he suspected high blood pressure and advised a...
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The THES Diary
Shine on Delegates to the TEC annual conference were in defiant mood last week after being effectively abolished by the government's white paper Learning to Succeed. So speculation ran rife over the...
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On the move
Paul Richards, chief executive of West Midlands Development Agency, is to take up the new post of deputy vice-chancellor (executive director - external developments) at Staffordshire University....
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Glittering prizes
The British Academy has elected the following as fellows: William Arnott, former professor of classics at the University of Leeds; Graeme Barker, professor of archaeology, University of Leicester;...
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Eye witness
Last month, Commonwealth secretary general Chief Emeka Anyaoku announced that his special envoy had successfully negotiated an end to civil unrest in the Solomon Islands. In the preceding three weeks...