Balancing the stick and the carrot
Name : Sheelagh Hill Job : Head of staff development, Brunel University. Salary : As "academic-related", I am waiting to find out in August. Practical training/education : After qualifying as a...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. 'When my line manager transferred to my department recently, I felt she was directing a...
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'Boycott London Met' call
The University and College Union has called on academics to boycott London Metropolitan University. This follows proposals by London Met to make 60 academics redundant while refusing to recognise the...
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Who got that cash?
Sodomy, syphilis and scatology are the subjects of investigation by a new research network examining obscenity in Renaissance France, thanks to an award of almost £50,000 from the Arts and Humanities...
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National pay agreement is at risk, say employers
Accept single-table pay talks, incoming and former Ucea heads urge academic union. Melanie Newman reports The collapse of national pay bargaining may be imminent, both the outgoing and incoming heads...
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Laurie Taylor column
"Academics could see their departments named and shamed by international students on a new website" - The Times Higher, June 29 University of Poppleton Welcome to the university's new international...
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Leader: How ambitious will Denham's DIUS dare to be?
There cannot be many governments with a dedicated minister responsible for higher education in the Cabinet. And in John Denham - the new Secretary of State for the Department for Innovation...
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UCU: to ballot or not to ballot... 1
Since the University and College Union congress voted to organise a debate on a boycott of Israeli institutions, there have been calls to ballot the membership. Speaking as a supporter of a boycott,...
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UCU: to ballot or not to ballot... 2
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine branch of the University and College Union has conducted a survey of our members on a possible academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions....
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De-recognition fight
Whatever views one may have on the call to discuss a boycott of Israel, the boycott call that was passed at the University and College Union congress (without a scintilla of opposition) has so far...
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Reliable forensics
John Hemming MP is right to identify failings in expert witness evidence in medical cases ("Expert witnesses: case for the prosecution", Features, June 29). But there is already a formal mechanism...
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Iconic mistakes
The reviewer's remarks on Ads to Icons: How Advertising Succeeds in a Multimedia Age (Books, June 22) illustrates the danger of skimming, not reading, a book. Winston Fletcher misrepresented the book...
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Booze is the drug
It seems bizarre for universities to worry about cognition-enhancing "smart drugs" ("Pills provide brain boost for academics", June 29) when there is so much institutionally approved pharmacological...
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Criticism is good
Your story about my report on the experiences of Chinese students in Britain contains some criticisms ("Rate UKcourses.com?", June 29). Beatrice Merrick of UKCOSA is reported as saying that one...
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Presidential faux pas
Richard Rose ends his very engaging piece ("Mr Bush, this is the way I see it", Features, June 29) with the point that "the President asked me one question that no one else ever had: what would have...