The incoming European Union Research Commissioner, Janez Potocnik, has unveiled his priorities for reforming the EU's Framework Programmes on research to help his fellow Eastern Europeans profit from...
University managers need to base their ideas on experience to make informed decisions, says Paul Ramsden By the time students get to university - or very soon afterwards - we expect most of them to...
The failure of higher education to make a big impact at this year's Labour Party conference is not helped by the low profile of Kim Howells, the new ÌÇÐÄVlog Minister. Interview requests with...
But former ÌÇÐÄVlog Minister Alan Johnson's status in the history books looks secure. While he was getting acquainted with the fiery issue of the nation's pensions crisis, he was honoured...
With top-up fees firmly on the statute books, and higher education issues at this year's Labour Party conference repeatedly dismissed with the line "been there done that", it is understandable that...
Never mind the hunting row, fur was flying inside the so-called "TonyTown" Brighton conference security zone at a fringe meeting on Mike Tomlinson's A-level reforms, hosted by the Association of...
17 days... ...until the merger of Manchester University and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology It's 9am and, as chaplain, I'm addressing freshers at the Royal Northern...
Britain's foreign policy often bears little resemblance to the image presented by academics. Indeed, I think British academics are generally responsible for keeping students and the public in...
Time is running out to comply with new disability legislation, writes Jennifer Dyer The start of this academic year brings more changes to the Disability Discrimination Act. For the first time, "...
Fears of an ethical decline in the academy are premature, argues Ron Robin Do we live in particularly deviant times? A cursory glance at academic newspapers, internet bulletin boards and even the...
Does electronic submission have to be so hard? asks a desperate Tim Birkhead. Arguably, the most important thing academics do is publish research. Submitting a manuscript to a journal used to be...
Writing a lecture at home with only hours to go, I decided to print it out at university to save time. On turning on my PC, I got a message that my computer, the University of London system and the...
Ever wanted to expand your mainstream lecturing repertoire into more off-the-beaten track areas? Then Overnight Experts may be for you. When the history, classics and archaeology subject centre of...
Do you fantasise about speaking in exotic places, audiences hanging on to your every word? Harriet Swain reveals how to be the darling, not the dud, of the conference circuit. So you want an all-...
Catherine Grant, 40, is lecturer in film studies, and director of the film studies department, School of Drama, Film and Visual Arts, Kent University. She mainly teaches non-English language cinema...