Avant-garde is alive in our creative workshops
Art schools have long nurtured innovation. Their models have a great deal to offer universities, argues Anne Bamford. It was a lesson once enjoyed by John Lennon, Damien Hirst, Eric Clapton, the...
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Shout out and hope for change
The National Student Survey might seem a flawed exercise, but Susan Bassnett believes it could be a chance to make some noise about issues of concern. The annual student survey is coming round again...
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Do not belabour the bullet point
If you are giving a lecture or a conference talk, PowerPoint could be just the tool you need to liven things up. But, warns Harriet Swain, unless it is used with thought it could overwhelm your...
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Tips on staying sane after 35 years
Name : David Martin. Age : 62. Job : Senior lecturer in history, Sheffield University. Salary : ?2,578 net last month; a 1.25 per cent increment is due this month. Plus about ?250 a year as an...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. 'I work as a principal lecturer in a school of health and social care at a new...
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Who's in, who's out?
TEESSIDE It is not often that business people move into academe, but Teesside University's Jim TerKeurst is something of an exception. He ran his own media production company in the US for...
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Fears over job security
Critics claim that open-ended contracts are no safety net for staff. Anthea Lipsett reports. Job security for research staff has not improved despite universities' use of open-ended contracts to...
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EU plans for 'enforceable' code
UK universities could be forced to adhere to the European Commission's Charter for Researchers and Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers under Commission plans to introduce "enforceable...
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Today's news
Oxford targets bright young things of eastern Europe Oxford University hopes to entice eastern Europe's brightest students with scholarships worth ?25,000 a year from October. The university has...
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As Irish eyes looked away
Most of wartime Ireland beat a moral retreat, Brian Girvin discovers.
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a memoir: "Mum doesn't knock, she just whisks open my bedroom door, crosses straight to the curtains,...
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Beyond rationality and towards understanding
The Soulful Science
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Don't be a panda in your bedroom
Mating in Captivity
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A barmy yarn cooked up in leprechaun's kitchen
Unstoppable Brilliance
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He shot from the quip
Bernard Shaw