Boost social value by making a united stand
Higher education needs to take joint action if it is to go beyond just training students for jobs, says David Maughan Brown. Nowadays it is taken at face value that good higher education increases...
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Nancy Rothwell
Clear but flexible rules on intellectual property are needed to avoid exploitation and ensure staff share the spoils. In a discussion with a group of graduate students, I asked, "Who owns the results...
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Don's Diary: Zen and the art of AHRB Maintenance
Monday Back from the vac. Glad I avoided all those terrible conferences with awful Cellophane food and plastic lectures. Grumpy thoughts soon pass as I park in my favourite spot: thank goodness that...
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A f***ing hard act to follow
The Royal Society's list of 2004 fellows is finally unveiled this week. But with his five-year presidency coming to an end in 2005, speculation is beginning about a much bigger announcement - who...
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A bedtime Tory?
Those of us who cherish a belief that the intricacies of higher education policy are of interest to everyone may have to think again. Last week the House of Commons science and technology committee...
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A spliffing idea
A marketing consultancy conducting a study of student culture tells us that cannabis use is so common on campus that many students don't even regard it as a drug. It's not surprising then that...
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Help for poor hacks
Finally, Cambridge University is taking widening participation to extremes. When one of our reporters turned up at the institution last week with no wallet, barely a flat Black-Country vowel had...
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Why I... believe universities need theology and theology needs faith
Modernity lingers throughout the academy through the strong emphasis on reason, history and repeatable experiments as benchmarks of wisdom. Disinterested scholarship is extolled even while strong...
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Long live diversity
Trevor Phillips proclaimed the end of multiculturalism. He couldn't be more wrong, says Darcus Howe. Every year, the staff of Aylesbury College of Education celebrate the life of Jacob Briskman with...
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Call yourself cosmopolitan?
Embracing global opportunity is about more than cashing in on overseas students, says Frank Furedi. One of the most exciting features of a university is its embrace of global influences. Ideas have...
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Put away your pom-poms and start to shout
It is time for academics to make a stand on the political stage and show where their loyalties lie, says Bob Brecher. The question of where academics' political loyalties should lie is becoming...
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Jobwatch: Can you talk the talk?
Westminster hopes to further boost healthy RAE scores with ten posts in social sciences, humanities and languages for those with a flexible approach, writes Chris Johnston. A rising student intake at...
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Who got that job?
Paul Hannon Job advertised in The Times Higher , July 11 2003 Paul Hannon has become the first professor of incubation and enterprise at the University of Central England. He joined UCE from De...
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Pointless tedium - don't you just love it?
Neither lecturers nor students enjoy exams, so why do we have them? Perhaps we have a twisted sadomasochistic streak, writes Nathan Abrams. I have an exam paper for you. Three questions. Three hours...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Mandy Garner asks teachers how they manage Name: Val Taylor Age: 49 Job: Lecturer in drama at the University of East Anglia Salary: At the top of...