Brussels, 07 Jul 2005 Four years after achieving the first non-stop round the world balloon flight, pioneers Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones have teamed together again for a spectacular human and...
Professor's anger and sadness as victims helped One of the consultants treating victims of the London bomb blasts spoke of the anger felt by medical teams as they dealt with the injuries. Professor...
Cardiff University is analysing the reasons for an 18 per cent first-year student dropout in social sciences - The Times Higher, July 1 From: Jamie Targett, Head of Corporate Development I'm...
British universities are becoming increasingly dependent on overseas students' fees - dangerously so, many good judges believe. Jonathan Nicholls, the registrar of Birmingham University, cites one...
Scotland has often led the UK - and much of the world - in higher education. It may have another winner in its much-vaunted quality enhancement system. A relatively light-touch regime seems to...
The reviewer of the Encyclopedia of Energy states that there are no links to a web-based resource and expresses the hope that the publishers find some way to produce an electronic version (Books,...
Africa's loss due to its intellectual diaspora may not be as absolute as The Times Higher coverage suggests (Opinion and Features, July 1). Many of us retain ties with our "mother continent" and...
More detailed analysis is needed about what happens to starry-eyed returners when African governments go bad. Zimbabwe makes a good case study. Five years ago, few Zimbabweans lived in exile, self-...
Live8 may have been a great pop concert but surely more could be done by UK universities to encourage African politicians to participate in education that has a good measure of moral philosophy,...
Your articles miss one key fact: institutions such as the University of Cape Town train many talented people, but if they are white they is no way they will get a job in South Africa. Its affirmative...
I wonder at stories that accuse the ÌÇÐÄVlog Academy of failing to do things it was not set up to do ("Put lecturers first, academy told", July 1). My friend and colleague Ron Barnett is...
The ÌÇÐÄVlog Academy can champion the role of teaching by listening to Ron Barnett and Alan Jenkins. The HEA board, dominated as it is by managerial and government interests, cannot be...
The suggestion that institutions might "gamble in the last-chance saloon" ("Funding councils unveil new submissions criteria", July 1) at the next research assessment exercise by citing in their...
" Times Higher lowers journalism standards" - how would you feel about such a heading based on the unsubstantiated opinion of a few readers? I ask because I do not understand either how your headline...
On the one hand, the UK mathematics community falls short of reproducing itself. On the other, mathematicians have the highest earnings expectations of all graduates ("ÌÇÐÄVlog PhDs trumped by overseas...