Academics to embark on Titanic pub crawl
International and local Titanic experts are gathering in Southampton this week to relive the final moments before the great ship left harbour on its maiden and only voyage. As many of the conference...
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Cash now not next year, say lecturers
Five per cent pay rises are on the cards for lecturers in 2001-02 thanks to the extra Pounds 50 million earmarked for pay in the chancellor's Pounds 100 million spending review. But lecturing unions...
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Boost to sector is welcomed
Further education leaders were "delighted" that colleges will get an extra Pounds 50 million in 2001-02 to tackle their staff pay crisis. The Department for Education and Employment said the...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from someone with an instinct for the way we talk: " As you are reading these words, you are taking part in...
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Not pleasant, but very green
The Isles
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Taking the shine off fool's gold
The Secret Treasury
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Mums who like to wear tartan
The Mummies of Ürümchi
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The writing system that survived fire and confusion
Breaking the Maya Code
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Ennui? Here's life on a plate
Walter Sickert
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If you desire the sixth sense or sex, just have a sniff
Jacobson's Organ and the Remarkable Nature of Smell
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Private lives in the public eye
Voyeurism gone mad or a uniqueresearch opportunity? As TV series Big Brother begins its round-the-clock surveillance of ten British volunteers, Phil Baty talks to Oxford University's Peter Collet,...
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Losing a language to repair the past
English is usurping Afrikaans in South African universities. But, as Jennifer Wallace reports, some academics are resisting the demise of a language of oppression On top of the highest mountain in...
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'The students hang on every word, they're rapt'
Are visiting lecturers exploited part-timers or invaluable contacts with the world of work? Anne Sebba reports. Twice I have been a visiting lecturer. Never before or since have I faced such a well-...
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Three visiting lecturers explain their motivation
Thirty-four-year-old Robert Cole is investment editor at The Times and has taught financial journalism for two hours a week at City University, London, for the past six years. Cole, previously at The...