First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel abouta university lecturer: "Now it is the autumn again; the people areall coming back." The...
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Higher channels
John Davies looks for programmes of interest to academics (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week. It slipped into the schedules last week too late for me to mention (except on The THES...
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Ethnic minority and female professors
...this is the tiny proportion of ethnic minority and female professors employed in Britain's universities. Helen Hague reports on how the statistics published today could help in the battle against...
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A leader. Greenwich University
...this is the tiny proportion of ethnic minority and female professors employed in Britain's universities. Helen Hague reports on how the statistics published today could help in the battle against...
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'Dire' career prospects
...this is the tiny proportion of ethnic minority and female professors employed in Britain's universities. Helen Hague reports on how the statistics published today could help in the battle against...
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A laggard. Swansea University
...this is the tiny proportion of ethnic minority and female professors employed in Britain's universities. Helen Hague reports on how the statistics published today could help in the battle against...
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Breaking a conspiracy of silence
Kay Jamison wants more done to combat student suicides. Olga Wojtas reports. Kay Redfield Jamison, professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, exudes cool, patrician...
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Pounds 1m says our policy's right
New Labour is keen to fund social science research, but there are fears that the money is being offered with strings attached. Phil Baty reports. New Labour says it wants to take social science...
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Why didn't council appoint architect of programme?
Some social scientists fear that their own research council, the ESRC, is becoming a lap dog to new Labour. For James Mitchell, professor of politics at Sheffield University, this tendency is...
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Archaeology in rubber suits
A shipwrecked pirate chaser off Mull has given an insight into another age. Olga Wojtas reports. At the age of 60, Colin Martin, reader in maritime archaeology at St Andrews University's school of...
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Trying to box clever
Management jargon and red tape is invading learning. Pat Leon meets a professor fighting the paperwork and aiming to cut the cackle. Something is troubling the world of academic assessors, the people...
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UK lags in green research
The United Kingdom has the lowest expenditure per capita on environmental research and development of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, MPs were told this week....
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Students learn a bit of 'can do'
Pipe dreams? Careers advisers have been struggling to make part-time work relevant to students' future vocations Tony Tysome What is the connection between stacking shelves in a supermarket and...
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Heavens saved from bad waves
The imminent destruction of the 66 Iridium satellites - possibly the most expensive firework display in history - will be watched with particular glee by radio astronomers. The global telephone...
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Database boob may delay loan payments
The Student Loans Company is set to repeat last year's fiasco in which a botched database threatened to delay loan cheques for thousands of students. Last week, the company was due to issue local...