My revolting past
In the early 1960s Terry Eagleton rebelled by wearing his tie over his sweater before finding a cause in the Catholic left As a student, Terry Eagleton echoed Richard Hoggart's scholarship boy - the...
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Why tsarists lost by a nose
Staff at Dundee University recall that when Sir Peter Ustinov, who died this week, became the first rector in 1968, he gave a bravura inaugural address that included the true explanation for the...
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UEA's seekers after Clarke
Almost a year has passed since Charles Clarke, the education secretary, questioned whether the state should support "medieval seekers after truth" who are "good to have as an adornment to our society...
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Tables? Pah. But we're tops!
League tables are typically derided by those who fail to top them and acclaimed by those who do - as evidenced most recently in the vision for University College London being developed by Malcolm...
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No 1 place to find number twos
Need to get to the bottom of that elusive research on excrement? Whether your quest is for the diet of those living in the Roman empire or honeybee faeces in Southeast Asia, an Alberta University...
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Why I believe students are too concerned with failure to experiment with art
Failure is a powerful and emotive term. High failure rates on any higher education course or module are naturally a cause for concern. One must also be sensitive to the students coming to university...
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One foot in the future
Nottingham is the first university permitted to build a campus in China. Ian Gow reports The internationalisation of higher education in China is proceeding at a phenomenal pace. The number and...
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Expansion first, equality later
Widening participation does not automatically lead to a fairer society, but it's a start, says David Watson An international group of scholars gathered this week at a symposium in memory of Colin...
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Time to find your balance at the cutting edge
Academic work often spills over into family time, but the positives can outweigh the negatives, says Nick Saunders. The idea of balancing work and family in today's climate in higher education...
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Jobwatch: Recreation grounds
Fit and active are the watchwords on today's campuses, with the emphasis on getting students to exercise their arms less in the bar and more on the sports courts. Pat Leon explains. Sports and...
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Who got that job?
Jennifer Davidson, 34 Job advertised in The Times Higher June 20, 2003. Director, Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care circa £35K to £40K A Canadian "outsider" who had done her homework...
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V-cs call for Sykes to be sacked from Hefce
Vice-chancellors are demanding that English funding council chiefs remove Sir Richard Sykes from their board after he branded some universities "third class". A number of letters, including one...
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Spin? We've seen it all before
The Roman poet Catullus, whose odes about life and love are still taught in schools, has been revealed as a classical equivalent of Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's former communications chief....
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Russian scientists gets 15 years' hard labour
Inquiry says Britain has lost its nanotechnology lead Britain has lost its lead in nanotechnology because of inadequate government support, according to a damning report from a Commons inquiry that...
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Presence of unauthorised animal protein in fish flour is contrary to BSE rules and no level of tolerance is allowed to traders: judgment
Luxembourg, 1 April 2004 C-286/02, Bellio F.lli Srl v Prefettura di Treviso Judgment of the Court of Justice (Third Chamber) on 1 April 2004 (link to English version when available). Full text The...