The Time to Train consultation document was published last month by the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS). It contains a proposal to allow employees who have 26 weeks’ service...
Data provided by Thomson Scientific from its Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 1998–30 April 2008
New research into stress levels at our university shows that 97.24 per cent of academics "very strongly agree" that their job is "very stressful". This is a decline of 0.2 per cent on last year's...
The wasteful technician-academic divide needs to end, says Sally Feldman
In decades of linguinsania, Deirdre McCloskey has tried to learn a second language - everything from French, Greek and Latin to German, Scots Gaelic and Sanskrit - with no success. But she's still...
The SNP wants applied research to drive the Scottish economy. Can universities deliver without more money or a loss of quality?
Michael Marland, the author of a much-loved 1970s "survival guide" to secondary-school teaching, died of cancer on 3 July at the age of 73.Professor Marland, honorary professor of education at the...
Thanks to a benefaction of £2.5 million, the University of Oxford has created a new chair in the study of Abrahamic religions. It will be filled for the start of the 2009-10 academic year. George...
Once again Times Higher Education is engaging in the challenges and complexities of leading and managing as a middle manager - the profession of herding cats ("The in-betweeners", 10 July).I am a...
It is undoubtedly extreme for Baroness Deech to recommend that universities derecognise the University and College Union for the motion passed at its last conference on links with Israeli...
Baroness Deech accuses the UCU of being racist and unprofessional in asking academics to consider the moral and political implications of their links with Israel.The Israeli occupation is extremely...
Reading John Summers's account of the horrors of teaching at Harvard University ("All the privileged must have prizes", 10 July) reminded me of how strange it is that this is the university whose...
While I am aware that Daniel Vockins, the outgoing president of the University of Sussex student union, opposes the National Student Survey, he has failed to notice how the survey results have been...
Geoffrey Alderman throws down a gauntlet to the chief executive of the Quality Assurance Agency over the external examiner system (Letters, 10 July).The QAA has had a procedure for "handling causes...
Andreas Hess, in his review of Sheldon Wolin's Democracy Incorporated (Books, 10 July), argues that Wolin "does not believe in American conspiracies (as Chomsky does)".Such a throwaway comment leaves...