I wish I could be less cynical about the current fad of marrying science and art, but invariably the former provides the money, the latter the agenda, full stop. And I have seen numerous examples of...
Swapping the title "MP" for "president" is a dream for most politicians - and the small matter of falling out with his party leader just before an election and losing his parliamentary seat has not...
Few can have escaped the problems facing chemistry, with university departments shutting all over the country and schoolchildren turning their noses up at the subject. But this week it became clear...
The Association of University Teachers is so busy sounding off about problems in higher education that it may be suffering communication problems within its own walls. This week the union quietly...
When Lewis Elton, professor of higher education at University College London and staunch opponent of the research assessment exercise, called on academics to join him on the barricades at a meeting,...
As Westminster anxiously awaits an announcement about the future structure of select committees, The Daily Telegraph reveals that Labour's Ian Gibson is being touted as possible chair of the Commons...
Happy slapping, in so far as it even exists, is when a mobile phone with video capability is used to record assaults on strangers as a perverse form of entertainment. The subsequent footage might...
We don't need nuclear power to reverse climate change - just ask Germany, says Godfrey Boyle In Britain, an increasingly vociferous minority has been arguing recently that we must reopen the nuclear...
Rankings have a way to go before they truly aid student choice, say Mantz Yorke and Bernard Longden League tables attract scepticism from academics, but their primary aim is to inform prospective...
Tim Birkhead was tickled Pinc by a conference on creativity, not least because it was an antidote toa culture of uniformity I have just returned from a most remarkable conference. Pinc (People, Ideas...
Teaching students in the lab is fraught with danger. Getting to know the technician can safeguard against hitches while creating a social atmosphere gets sessions going with a bang, says Harriet...
Name: Anthony Bash Age: 53 Job: Solway fellow and chaplain at University College, Durham - a wonderful post, part-time college chaplain and part-time researcher on the New Testament, which I took up...
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. I work in an overcrowded office with no windows facing outside. There is very little...
Westminster University is setting a new standard in the treatment of part-time staff with its plans to shift up to 250 academics from short-term contracts to permanent positions. Jill Jones, the...
An Anglo-Scottish spin-off company has won £750,000 to exploit research into flat-panel displays. The cross-border Quantum Filament Technologies, led by Dundee University's Merv Rose , and Surrey...