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Scotland's vibrant music scene has prompted Glasgow University to offer the country's first postgraduate course in popular music studies. Martin Cloonan, course convenor of the MLitt in popular music...
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Fungi findings
Climate change is dramatically altering the growing patterns of mushrooms, toadstools and other fungi, research has found. A team from Cardiff University's School of Biosciences studied more than 52,...
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Muslim excellence
Adel Sharif of Surrey University was awarded the Fazlar Rahman Khan Award for Engineering, Science and Technology at the annual Muslim News Awards for Excellence. Rear Admiral Amjad Hussain, the...
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Walk on the wild side
Orangutan Diary TV presenter Steve Leonard will give a talk at Wolverhampton University next week on his work filming animals. Mr Leonard, a trained veterinary surgeon, will give a free public...
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Phoenix soars but still dogged by turbulence
Profit-making universities are big in the US. However, their spectacular growth has been mirrored by less welcome controversy over tactics. Stephen Phillips reports Sporting events do not come much...
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Wake up and value the potential of the postdoc
Early-career researchers can reinvigorate academe, but only if they are given support and job security, argues Paul Wicks Professors profess, lecturers lecture, students study and assistants assist....
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Alison Wolf
Like many social scientists, I spend my working life collecting, coding and analysing data. If I were asked to play word-association games,"data" would therefore tend to elicit "deadline", "missing...
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Swimming against the tide of lost identity
Centuries-old pitfalls befall Brown and Blair in their bid to reinvent the Union, says Michael Lynch The present Government seems to be one that, more than any other in recent times, is conscious of...
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High-flyer grounded
Delegates to the Political Studies Association conference at Bath University last week found this statement in their conference packs: "The PSA apologises that Professor Pippa Norris (Harvard) is...
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A little recruitment 'fore' play
Aberdeen University is offering a new lure to masters students. All those taking research or taught postgraduate degrees in its College of Arts and Social Sciences School will from September be...
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Time to put it to Bedfordshire?
The one-man campaign by Bedfordshire University's former associate dean, Alfred Vella, against his former employer shows no sign of letting up. A few months after The Times Higher reported on his...
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An eye for detail an advantage
Academics waiting anxiously for the quality of their research to be judged in next year's research assessment exercise will no doubt be expecting exacting standards from the organisers. So it was...
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Save the planet - become a vegan
Eating cow flesh isn't just cruel to animals, says David Nibert. It has led to untold human suffering and is now wrecking our environment Since I became an advocate for animals - living as a vegan on...
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Social tinkering spells disaster for our young
Plan to raise school-leaving age is unlikely to have the effect of widening access, say Patrick Ainley and Martin Allen Raising the school-leaving age to 18 could do more than any other measure to...
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Cosy up to your pal the deadline
Are you struggling to get all your tasks completed on time? Kevin Fong runs through the rules of relativity that govern the way we work They're out there somewhere; lurking, unseen, silent and deadly...