New drugs panel could undermine ACMD's position
Concerns have been raised about the potential impact of a new independent drugs advisory panel on the effectiveness of its official counterpart.The Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs was...
Search
-
-
Lord Drayson refuses to consider crossing the floor
Minister reveals little except his desire for a Labour victory at the polls. Zoë Corbyn reports
-
Daytime TV: Random beauty
Gary Day finds poetry in the mathematics of the Universe as he sees the chaos in everything
-
Field rankings for Australia
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators database, 1 January 1999-31 October 2009
-
21 January 2010
Turn your frown upside down - As work conditions deteriorate, wellbeing schemes proliferate
-
With top posts vacant, staff ask ‘why’ and ‘what next?’
Sudden loss of v-c and finance director has Manchester academics asking questions about the future. Hannah Fearn writes
-
Opinion: The one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t work for higher education
Chris Higgins and Anthony Forster argue that we must stop expecting all universities to deliver on both research and teaching
-
Politics makes a mockery of impact
‘Knowledge resistance’ undermines efforts to show influence of academic work, social scientist says. Melanie Newman reports
-
The insecure scholar: A world of possibilities
Being given the opportunity to apply for jobs can make all the difference to one’s state of mind
-
Teachers must be a class apart
Conservatives plan to make teaching a ‘brazenly elitist’ profession. Melanie Newman
-
Cut ‘failed’ ex-poly humanities departments, says peer
Opinions divided in Lords debate on higher education budget cuts. Melanie Newman reports
-
Nutt unveils independent alternative on drugs
Fourteen-strong committee to provide non-political scientific advice, ousted professor says. Zoë Corbyn reports
-
We ‘just don’t like them’ is adequate reason to dismiss advisers, claims shadow science minister
At a science debate Adam Afriyie argued that governments were entitled to sack academic experts on any terms at all. Zoë Corbyn reports
-
Firsts rise again
Percentage of students with top honours increases by 1 per centage point, Hesa statistics show. Melanie Newman reports
-
It's all about them
The universities that do well in Times Higher Education's Student Experience poll put students first, but as Rebecca Attwood learns, there is more than one way to do that