External examiners 'not taken seriously' says QAA
Standards watchdog calls for national guidelines after examiners complain their advice is ignored
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Best foot forward
Dancers and academics at the University of Teesside are challenging the view of dance as a "Cinderella subject".Although dance activities are booming thanks to TV shows such as Strictly Come Dancing...
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Academics urged to defend free speech without limits
The concept of academic freedom is "impoverished" and under threat at a time when the vogue is for arguing that freedom of speech must be limited to protect certain groups.The warning has been issued...
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Criticism of marking system "kept hidden"
MPs told that university failed to pass on examiner's classification concerns. Melanie Newman reports
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Quality concerns take centre stage as staff quit over dramatic changes
QAA looks into claims that lack of practical focus is harming theatre training. Hannah Fearn writes
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'Blacklist' fear remains despite EPSRC's moves
Plans to bar researchers who make a number of unsuccessful bids from applying for further research council grants have been watered down after an outcry in the pages of Times Higher Education.More...
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Lifelong learning 'on verge of extinction' across the UK
A string of cuts and closures leaves the future of adult education unclear. Rebecca Attwood writes
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Protesters disrupt business-link conference
Student protesters stormed the stage at a knowledge-transfer conference and demanded an end to the close relationship between universities and business.The students, who were representing the...
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NSS targeted in linguistics battle
Sussex students fighting closures seek to retract survey responses. Melanie Newman reports
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News in brief
Bioscience researchNiche areas of expertise in dangerAn investigation is being held to identify niche areas of expertise that are in danger of being lost from the bioscience research community. A...
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Daytime TV: It's life, Captain
Gary Day asks what we can learn from Star Trek, enjoys a look at Wordsworth and laughs with women
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Top journals in computer science
Data provided by Thomson Reuters’ Essential Science Indicators database, 1 January 1998-31 December 2008
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Are you looking at me?
Although Poppleton has acknowledged the concerns of the Higher Education Policy Institute by increasing personalised contact time with students by 0.62 per cent, a new student survey suggests that...
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... and be quick about it
Impatient editors risk upsetting manuscript referees, writes Tim Birkhead
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Leader: Watch the devilish details
The REF is moving in a direction that most of the sector is happy with, but there is still much at stake in the fine-tuning