Education rejuvenated in rejig
Young blood was transfused into the education department this week with the appointment of former student leader Stephen Twigg and ex-policy adviser David Miliband. Mr Twigg, 35, a former president...
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Peer review backs Daresbury's bid to secure its future
Daresbury Laboratory's bid to secure its future by building a world-leading light source has received a crucial vote of approval. After successful peer review, the chief executives of the research...
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Anger at Salford over job losses
Lecturers at Salford University are threatening to withhold exam results after it emerged this week that compulsory redundancies are being considered to ensure that 70 jobs are axed by September. A...
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Bristol University is to reorganise its six academic faculties
* Bristol University is to reorganise its six academic faculties, writes Caroline Davis. The arts, engineering and science faculties will remain unchanged but medicine will be split into medical...
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Answer to avoiding brain damage may be in the air all around us
Scientists have found that a rare component of air could prevent some of the most common forms of brain damage. The protective powers of xenon were revealed by Mervyn Maze, professor of anaesthetics...
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Allegiance to duty in a realm of the capricious
The Kings and Queens of England
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an essay that inspired Gandhi and Martin Luther King: "I heartily accept the motto, - 'That government...
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Moral take on tots and technology
Oversold and underused
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Port not claret in plastic age
The History of the University of Oxford, Volume III, Nineteenth-Century Oxford, Part 2
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Laurie Taylor
Concern grows over casualisation of university teaching - THES May 24 . Good morning. Dons U Like. Good morning. My name is Professor Lapping. University of Poppleton. We have a bit of a crisis. One...
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Why I ...think no rational person should become an academic in Britain
Warden New College, Oxford I am taking off to California for 2002-03. That is not much of a news item. Even in these straitened times, most academics take one year off in seven as sabbatical leave....
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Leader: The job can be done but not without more cash
In her final editorial, Auriol Stevens argues that higher education has delivered, now it's up to the government to pay for its policies From the cutting edge of research to the frontiers of wider...
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In brief 1
Exams are almost over and exam boards loom. At my university we encourage undergraduates to ask for extenuating circumstances to be taken into consideration. The evidence is pouring in. This group...
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In brief 2
The pseudonymous Mr Brogan ("Part-time post: long hours, atrocious pay", THES , May 17) is lucky to have any teaching and visiting lectureships at all - chance would be a fine thing. And £12 an hour...
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Border lines
Sara Parkin argues that the government is not promoting education for sustainable development (Opinion, THES , May 17). Which government? The Welsh Assembly has a constitutional commitment to...