The seedy underbelly of Second Life
Virtual worlds can be valuable teaching tools but consider the risks, says David Grundy "Virtual persistent online worlds" - better known in forms such as Second Life - are bringing enjoyment to...
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Clinical cost of making headlines
Scientific papers should not be thrown open to the media, says Ben Goldacre, unless we want the public even more misled Paul Broca was a French craniologist who measured brains. He was famous, and...
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Now showing (and failing) at a cinema near you
Why is British film so disappointing at the moment? Simon Popple blames a lack of leadership and vision There is a horrible sense of deja vu every time I approach the next "great" British film -...
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Blank faces and bungled systems
University bureaucracy is too often built by those who neither know nor care who academics are or what they need, says Tim Birkhead. Researchers and teachers are victims of a burgeoning bureaucracy...
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Open the door to new vistas
A mentor can give you vital perspective on your work by assessing your new ideas and challenging old ones. But you will need to be able to take criticism and use it constructively, says Harriet Swain...
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Engineering women's interest
Name - Haifa Takruri-Rizk. Age: 45. Job: Senior lecturer in engineering, Salford University. Salary: More than £45,000 Education: BSc in electrical engineering form Birzeit University in Palestine....
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. 'My employer says that because my contract of employment does not specify fixed hours...
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Pay spending lags behind
UK universities rank below the OECD average in the proportion of funding they spend on salaries and their student-to-staff ratios are high. Tony Tysome reports. The UK spends a lower proportion of...
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Tesco to fund green research
A 77-member research team investigating green issues is to be created by Manchester University using a £25 million donation from supermarket giant Tesco, writes Tony Tysome. Following confirmation of...
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Who got that cash?
A chance discovery led cell biologist Stephen Royle away from neuroscience to cell division, with the chance to find out more about the basic processes that lead to cancer. With the first Career...
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Laurie Taylor column
"Universities report re-sit chaos" - The Times, September 2007 Ah, Martin. There you are. You've come to find out the results of your re sits? That's right, Professor Lapping. You're wanting to know...
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'If Justinian had been right to think that buggery brought on earthquakes, you'd have been right to protest against its eventual decriminalisation'
It was one of the many curiosities of teaching graduate students in the US that whenever we turned to discussing Mill's essay On Liberty , they would spend all their time trying to imagine ways in...
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Leader: The best, the brightest and the brutal truth
Of all the troubling statistics uncovered by the Sutton Trust's report into elite schools' domination of research universities (page 4), this is the most shocking: a third more pupils are admitted to...
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Oxford-Man opens
Oxford University officially opened its Oxford-Man Institute this week. The institute, set up with a contribution of £13.75 million from Man Group, the hedge-fund company, is intended "to become the...
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Second degrees are vital asset 1
The Government's decision to discontinue funding for students with an existing degree who take a second equivalent or lower qualification ("Denham stands by funding cuts", September 14) is depressing...