An investment of £6.2 million in biomedical sciences at Liverpool University has led to the appointment of world-class researchers and the creation of new posts, writes Tony Tysome. New laboratories...
BOURNEMOUTH Chris Brady is dean of Bournemouth University's Business School. The former semi-professional footballer has also worked as a line-worker in a Chrysler auto plant in Detroit and spent 16...
"New attempts to introduce objective performance criteria in the humanities" - The Times Higher , June 1 The University of Poppleton From: The Office of Quality Enhancement To: The Poet in Residence...
Among the familiar hazards of advancing age, one of the worst is the tendency to repeat oneself. Going on like a cracked record is not how most of us want to be known. On the other hand, another of...
Of all the improbable kites that are occasionally flown at conferences, the decision by the University and College Union to explore a boycott of Israeli academe must rank as one of the most...
Not so very long ago the only people on campus likely to care about environmentally friendly policies were hippies and a perhaps a few climatologists. Now, as the first Green League table reveals,...
I am surprised that The Times Higher has trivialised the question of the University and College Union boycott of Israeli universities in its interview with Alan Dershowitz, otherwise an advocate of...
I read with incredulity the latest outburst from Alan Dershowitz - his threat to "devastate and bankrupt" those British academics who support an academic boycott of Israel. He clearly hasn't yet...
If evidence were needed to show that this anti-academic absurdity was motivated by racism, UCU members should ask the old question: did the union fall or was it pushed? The "arrangements" for the...
There is uproar over the UCU's decision to boycott Israeli academic institutions. It is even more alarming when we realise that those who feel uncomfortable about the motion cite intellectual...
The proposed boycott of Israeli universities is strategically inept and tactically counterproductive. It is a perfect example of ultra-leftism, when a simplistic moral position is adopted to crank up...
Following the courageous resolution of the UCU to boycott (or discuss boycotting) Israeli academics for their complicity in the illegal occupation of Palestine, I urge its members to boycott...
Steven Weinberg equates criticising Israel with anti-Semitism or, since Palestinians are also Semites, anti-Jewishness (Letters, May 25). The syllogism that because anti-Jewish racists criticise...
Many of us who were members of the Association of University Teachers in the 1970s supported its decision to become a trade union under the law of the land. Hitherto, it had been a professional...
Julian Bradfield says that the intellectual Left holds Israelis to higher standards than Arabs (Letters, June 1), but it is this Orientalist attitude that gives licence to certain people to engage in...