A peculiar aspect of the English psyche is a deep-rooted fear of the Scots. From Malcolm III's slave-raiding in the late 11th century to the descent of Scottish football supporters on Wembley in the...
Atheism is in trouble and Richard Dawkins, its champion, is not helping, writes Alister McGrath Is atheism losing its appeal? At first sight, this might seem an absurd question. After all, leading...
... is not always good news, Maria Misra discovered on a recent visit to India. I will watch at least some of David Starkey's new 20-part series on the British monarchy with interest, even though it'...
Losing a job can be a crushing blow, but if you take care and get all you are owed, you might see new opportunities once you have picked yourself up, says Harriet Swain. So, you've lost your job. No...
I was delivering my first conference paper as a postgraduate student, and I had prepared my presentation in script form. As I was reading it, I started to stumble over the words. When I tried to say...
How do you make a "difficult" subject more popular? With educationists bemoaning a crisis in maths, the Centre for the Popularisation of Mathematics at the University of Wales in Bangor certainly has...
Nigel Hemmington , head of school, gives the lowdown on services management at Bournemouth University. Total number of academic staff : 70 Permanent academic staff : 50 Number on fixed-term contracts...
Ethnic minorities are seriously underrepresented in higher education, with some subjects registering no ethnic-minority professors and less than a handful of senior staff, according to a Times Higher...
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs may turn to another academic to chair its Science Advisory Council after losing Roy Anderson to the Ministry of Defence this month. The council...
Elspeth Broady Head of School of Languages faculty of education and sport Brighton University Job advertised in The Times Higher , May 30, 2003 A-level students are turning away from modern languages...
Manchester merger creates UK's biggest university The new University of Manchester, with more than 36,000 students, will become Britain's biggest when the Queen hands over its royal charter today....
Brussels, 21 Oct 2004 Full text of Document 313/04 Suite of documents 313/04 Subject: To position COST in the European Research Area (ERA) - report by the JAF Rapporteur for Task 2 Delegations will...
Brussels, 21 Oct 2004 Full text of Document 312/04 Suite of documents 312/04 Attached is the abovementioned Memorandum of Understanding signed in Brussels on 29 September 2004 by Finland, France and...
Brussels, 21 Oct 2004 'We will continue with our fight against GMOs even if we have to be punished and even if we have to go back to prison,' José Bové, a leading French campaigner against...
Brussels, 21 Oct 2004 The EU project SYMBIONIC, funded as a 'specific support action' under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) will hold a course on the computational systems biology of the neuronal...