County responds to higher calling
While a Cumbrian partnership prospers, a Scottish venture seems to have run its course. Tony Tysome and Olga Wojtas report. Cumbria University's vice-chancellor-to-be Chris Carr apologises for the...
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Pay plan attacked by union as unfair
Manchester University academics have been urged by their union to take a stand against a new promotion system for professors, writes Tony Tysome. Academic union leaders have complained that the...
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UK academe fights to retain young stars
Some 9,000 young researchers leave their universities each year. Only 10 per cent of those go to other UK institutions. Is the sector failing to offer the right support or are conditions elsewhere...
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Adviser helps postdocs get on the right track
Anne Forde recently took up a post at Cambridge University as a careers adviser dedicated to supporting postdoctoral researchers in the life sciences, writes Olga Wojtas. Cambridge has about 500...
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In other words, get an education
If universities are to be more than just training institutions, degree courses should contain a foreign-language component, says Bob Brecher As we all know, the past 20 years have seen a revolution...
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Go the extra mile with a big smile
Writing a student charter is only one step in looking after your university's customers, says Harriet Swain. You need to keep your promises, be accessible and listen to any feedback and act on it...
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Many hats to keep things fresh
Name : Chris Megone Age : 48 Job : Director of the interdisciplinary applied ethics centre of excellence for teaching and learning, director of the MA in healthcare ethics, knowledge transfer...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. 'The student union at my university runs a mature students' society. The society...
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Pension deal aims to avert staff loss
Some older academics in the TPS will now be able to work and claim a pension, says Chloe Stothart A key reform of one of the higher education sector's main pension schemes could help prevent an early...
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Who got that cash?
Academics at De Montfort University have won a ?500,000 research grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to carry out the next phase in a literary research project that started in the...
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Bournemouth seeks master of media learning
Bournemouth University is advertising this week for an academic with expertise in how to teach media studies to fill a new chair in its Media School. The chair, which comes with a salary of up to ?60...
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The long drive to bring early-career researchers in from cold
Preparing researchers for careers in and outside academe has been a longstanding issue for the Government, research councils, universities and employers alike. But the topic came to the fore with the...
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QAA pans uneven postgrad support
Many UK universities still fail to provide the personal development and training needed by novice researchers to help set them up for a career as an academic, the Quality Assurance Agency said this...
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Top pay to tempt key staff
Australian universities look abroad for high-flyers in run-up to new research assessment. Geoff Maslen reports. Australian universities have begun retrenching academics with poor research records...
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US foundation donates $11m in Nigerian aid
The independent US-based MacArthur Foundation has given about $11 million (?5.6 million) support to four Nigerian institutions: the universities of Ibadan and Port Harcourt, Ahmadu Bello University,...