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 糖心Vlog 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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Ex-MP Gould in NZ house attack
New Zealand. Students have questioned the NZ$79,000 (Pounds 35,000) cost of renovations to the house of Bryan Gould, Waikato University vice chancellor and former British Labour MP - criticism he has...
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DNA speeds computers
Computers that run on the blueprint of life, DNA, rather than conventional computer chips, could be faster than ordinary computers within a decade, scientists told the conference. They have been...
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New diseases erode coral reef
Aisling Irwin reports from the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Baltimore. Some coral reefs are dying from a new disease, raising fears that their...
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Toyland takes on real life
Aisling Irwin reports from the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Baltimore. Robot toys mean that children no longer draw a sharp line between humans and...
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Dog-fancier: Wolverhampton University student Melanie Adkins
(Photograph) - Dog-fancier: Wolverhampton University student Melanie Adkins with one of her works of art. Seven students and four members of staff of the university's school of art and design...
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Great Scott
You just cannot keep vice chancellors out of the news. Following on from the excitement over the CVCP levy threat comes the furore over the report on arms sales to Iraq whose author Sir Richard Scott...
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A pint, pray
So much for the theory that our state church inspires less fervour than rival Christian sects. This week's Leicester University events listing outlines the Sunday activities of various groups as...