Dropping out costs. It costs universities vital money and kudos and funding bodies their investment. It is the dropout student, however, who may finish up paying the highest price - and not just by...
We shouldn't dismiss the gender debate as passe - it's just getting interesting, says Mary Evans Anthony Giddens described the 20th century as the century of women. Eric Hobsbawm has also pointed out...
Third-party mediation can work wonders in university employment disputes, explains Jan Scrine When I arrived in higher education some years ago from "outside" - in my case from the private sector - I...
Sharing your troubles with students is unprofessional, says Susan Bassnett One of the biggest differences between teaching in a university and teaching in a school is the age of the students. In a...
If you want to recruit star researchers, rather than the 'extinct volcano' variety, you need to catch them on their way up, and lure them with a great team and abundant resources, says Harriet Swain...
Name: Euan G. Nisbet Age: Able to remember the Coronation (just); and took part in the 1969 Cambridge sit-in. Job: Geology professor at Royal Holloway, University of London. Co-ordinator of the...
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. I work at quite a small university. I originally felt comfortable with the people I...
UCLAN Tim Thornton, an academic who applies philosophy and philosophical concepts to treating people with mental illness, has joined the University of Central Lancashire. He said mental illness threw...
University staff are overwhelmingly satisfied with their pay, work-life balance and career development, according to a contentious report. The report finds that some 87 per cent of managerial and...
University personnel managers are less likely to find out how their staff are feeling than those in the private or public sectors, according to the HR Benchmarker Services, writes Phil Baty. The...
A senior official at the centre of a $25 million corruption row at a Turkish university has committed suicide while in custody. And Yücel Askin, the university's rector, who was sharing a prison cell...
Thirteen foreign-language lecturers at six Italian universities had their day in the European Court of Justice this week to hear how the Italian Government would respond to fines of E309,750 (£208,...
Ireland's new science strategy suffered a severe blow this week when the Government's chief science adviser, Barry McSweeney, stood down after the revelation that his PhD was from an unaccredited US...
Changes to Italy's degree system to comply with the Bologna Process of European higher education harmonisation seems to be the chief cause of a drop in international mobility among Italian university...
Students from Belarus are deserting the state-run university system to pursue their studies elsewhere in Europe. This trend is especially evident at the European Humanities University. It was based...