Smoothie operators
From energising drinks to golf links, Olga Wojtas collects pointers on how expert organisers make a conference an unmissable event. Gone are the days when the criteria for a successful conference...
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Vroom service
Opening their doors to ad agencies and film and TV companies as well as to conferences can provide institutions with a healthy second income. Anna Fazackerley reports. Some 400 people surged into St...
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For all who relish a slice of life
Academics, it seems, love a culinary adventure and will eat almost anything, as Michael North discovers. Bert Hall will never forget nearly starving in Delaware in the US. It was 1981 and he had been...
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Views with a room
Universities have to be businesslike and professional in providing conference venues and accommodation. Huw Richards reports. Tony Rogers vividly remembers the conference he attended a few years ago...
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A badge of honour
The annual mass gathering of anthropologists - with its fights over status, territorial disputes and rituals of belonging - is little different from other clannish assemblies, and that's why Susan...
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Oh we do like to be beside the seaside…
A conference that combines learning and leisure draws academics, and setting it in a tourist-friendly spot offers an added inducement, writes Chris Bunting It is sometimes easy to forget what...
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Boozing or snoozing?
Are conferences hotbeds of steamy sexual liaisons and long drink-fuelled sessions at the bar, or just tedious gatherings of old codgers boring each other to death? Sean Coughlan investigates. What...
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Conferences supplement
? Conferences, Issue No. 1 Published in The Times Higher on March 19 2004 ? Leader ? 'Academics and students may fuss about the hassles of hosting conferences, but both reap the benefits' Budget...
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Starry events lose shine
American universities are veering towards smaller conferences with more practical content, reports Stephen Phillips Conferences represent both a rite of passage and an integral part of the...
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Farewell to 'cuddly' ethos of yesteryear
Laurie Taylor recalls his time at York, its collegial atmosphere and rival factions, and returns to find Thatcher's children holding sway and the sociology department facing an uncertain future On...
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Delivered from the Baath party nightmare
Under Saddam's regime, only the party faithful could dream of a career, and to dream of anything else could cost you your life. Now top Iraqi academics tell Olga Wojtas of a new sense of hope This...
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'Religion should not provide the basis for ethics.' Discuss
Lewis Wolpert, a man of science, and Richard Harries, a man of religion, face off in a rehearsal of their positions for tonight's inaugural 'Controversial Thesis' debate at the National Portrait...
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'My supervisor is great - but I can't get up in the morning'
Six months in and some of our postgrads are finding the going tough. As experts gather for today's conference on 'Postgraduate Education', The Times Higher catches up with the students it is tracking...
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'My supervisor is great - but I can't get up in the morning'
Six months in and some of our postgrads are finding the going tough. As experts gather for today's conference on 'Postgraduate Education', The Times Higher catches up with the students it is tracking...
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'My supervisor is great - but I can't get up in the morning'
Six months in and some of our postgrads are finding the going tough. As experts gather for today's conference on 'Postgraduate Education', The Times Higher catches up with the students it is tracking...