Don's Diary
MONDAY. "Progress" meeting for the Unit for Space Sciences and Astrophysics at 9am. This week sees the switch-on of one of our experiments on the Cassini spacecraft, currently en route to Saturn....
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Glittering prizes
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, professor of physics at the Open University, who discovered pulsars - stars which send out pulses of radio waves that sweep across the sky in identifiable patterns - has...
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Famous last words?
One hopes the University of East Anglia is dedicated enough "to the advancement of learning and the increase of knowledge" to look kindly on an article by Peter Womack, senior lecturer in English...
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On the move
Ray Dowd, principal and chief executive of Hopwood Hall College, Rochale has been appointed principal and chief executive of Wirral Metropolitan College. He will succeed Jenny Shackleton, who is...
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Regal-eyed readers
The review of Joyce Tyldesley's Nefertiti (THES, April 9) was accompanied by a picture of Queen Nefertari, wife of Ramesses II (her name even appears in the cartouche) instead of Nefertiti, wife of...
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Conflict of interests
Scientists who collaborate with industry can find themselves gagged, says David Weatherall Mounting pressures on scientists by government and funding bodies to develop links with industry and to...
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Why I
...would happily eat a BSE hamburger The first time I saw a BSE cow in 1989, I was struck by how similar its behaviour was to that of people with multiple sclerosis. MS sufferers can use their hands...
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Englit must transform itself
Professors ofEnglish literature must become devotees of cultural studies, argues Anthony Eastope Cultural studies has not had a good press. Literary journalists in particular tend to be antagonistic...
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Star Turn
Watch out - a style guru is about. Olga Wojtas listens to what dramas a social anthropologist working in Edinburgh can detect around the kitchen sink The citizens of Edinburgh should be very afraid....
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How to..tell your side of the story
WHAT. Maxine Alterio talks to Jennifer Currie about a New Zealand project that got lecturers to talk about their experiences in a formal setting. WHY. Introducing storytelling sessions on a one-to-...
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Guest editor
Our guest editorfor this edition of Teaching is Sally Brown, directorof membershipservices at the new Institute for Learning and Teaching as well as a visiting professor at Robert Gordon University....
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Heather's story
Heather, a lecturer from New Zealand describes how using a formalised storytelling process enabled her to let go of her expectations. "I was working with another lecturer on a student project. They...
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Reflections on self-control
Lorraine Stefani describes how engineering students logged their progress on a project and then negotiated their grades with staff For many years I have supported and encouraged the provision of...
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Creeping invasion of super techies
Staff say the barrier to using IT in teaching is imagination, not practice. Olga Wojtas reports on the results of an Edinburgh University survey In the first half of this decade, the funding councils...
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Scots finish quality audit
The Scottish ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council this week marked the end of its teaching quality assessment cycle with a report on results of the six-year process. Out of 315 teaching assessments, more...