Just a couple of hurdles before the final furlong
Margaret Sharp anticipates an easy ride for the higher education bill in the Lords - but Offa remains a sticking point With Easter past, the higher education bill comes to the Lords for its second...
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Don's diary: Museum and mutoscopes but no muggings
Sunday I'm off to São Paolo, where I'm going to set up my part of Cyclic Eye, a four-artist show mixing electronics with early 20th-century technologies such as stereoscopy, zoetropes and, in my case...
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Austin's powers of oration
Austin Mitchell, MP for Great Grimsby, is a former politics lecturer who has been described by journalists as a "brilliant, witty but erratic small-screen Yorkshire Don Quixote and incurable...
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They're all heart
The crowd at the Transparent Transplants conference, held at London's Science Museum last week, was impressed by the British Heart Foundation's altruism - but only briefly. Michael Wilks, chairman of...
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Watchamacallit University?
Alexander McCall Smith, professor of medical law at Edinburgh University and author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels, is writing a serial in The Scotsman about life in Edinburgh. His...
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Top marks for ingenuity
The rector of Florence University has ordered an investigation into an exam that was "passed" by about 20 students who never took it. It is alleged that they were awaiting an oral exam in dynamic...
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Why I believe American studies is vital in the new world order
The 2004 annual conference of the British Association for American Studies, in Manchester, marks the run-up to the association's 50th anniversary. In the aftermath of the second world war the US was...
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Long live heresy
Geoff Andrews urges academics to take part in rekindling the spirit of our dissident heritage The late Roy Porter, describing the development of what he called the "British Enlightenment" in the late...
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Open end could spell dead end
Legislation intended to encourage long-term research contracts could backfire, warns Rob Tanner On the face of it, new UK laws governing fixed-term employees sound like a step in the right direction...
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Tell the emperors they are intellectually naked
If you want to improve academic performance, why not adopt a corporate strategy à la Network Rail, says Bob Brecher. One of the most challenging intellectual tasks of academics working in today's...
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Jobwatch: commercial breaks
Glasgow Caledonian is making a concerted push to integrate research and business activities with a raft of new professional appointments. Claire Sanders reports. Glasgow Caledonian is after the...
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Who got that job?
Clive Barnett, 36 Lecturer in Human Geography The Open University Job advertised in The Times Higher on December 6, 2002 There was one glitch when The Open University finally interviewed Clive...
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Gun laws, hitchhikers, allergies? No problem
Tutors have a duty of care to students and must prepare for field trips, whether it's springtime in Paris or trekking up Kilimanjaro, says David Nash. Most people think that students are capable of...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name : Patience Schell Age : 34 Job : Lecturer in Latin American cultural studies, department of Spanish and Portuguese...
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Offa may hinder not help access, Natfhe claims
The opening shots in what is expected to be the key battleground of the higher education bill in the House of Lords were fired this week, as the planned regulator for university access came under...