Consider the ins and outs
Building study skills both within subject teaching and in separate units allows all types of students to benefit, argues Gina Wisker There is a continuing discussion about the appropriate...
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Attention, s'il vous plaît
Lecturers are responding creatively to the challenge posed by language students who are more diverse than ever, says Michael Kelly Le changement dans le calme? I don't think so, not in languages....
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Points for debate
Argumentation skills are underdeveloped in undergraduates, write Beng Huat See, Carole Torgerson and Richard Andrews, who suggest some ways ahead The making and presenting of academic arguments has...
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Learning skills in HE index
Learning skills in HE Published in The Times Higher on June 1 2007 Leader 'By failing to guide them in their learning, universities turn literate school-leavers into illiterate graduates' All...
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Arts: 'I expected more tuition'
Arts: 'I expected more tuition' I've been at university since the end of September. This basically means that if I had any ideas on what I was expecting from my course, I have long since forgotten...
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Research wrecked by 'bean counters'
Outraged scholar's analysis reveals that even a Nobel winner would fail on new 'productivity targets', reports Phil Baty Academics' careers are being wrecked by crude performance targets, it was...
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Legal star will 'ruin' supporters of boycott
Alan Dershowitz, one of America's leading lawyers, has promised he will personally visit legal and financial ruin on any UK academic supporting a boycott of Israeli academe. The Felix Frankfurter...
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'I completed my PHD on Friday and on Monday I was in Wormwood Scrubs'
A prison governor-turned-academic looks forward to his new role as chair of an inquiry into the penal system. David Wilson, professor of criminology at the University of Central England in Birmingham...
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On the move...
* Alistair Alcock has been appointed professor and founding dean of Salford University's law school, which opens in September. He was formerly deputy vice-chancellor of Buckingham University. * Gill...
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Young put off cancer study
Lack of long-term funding deters new scientists from careers in UK cancer research. Rebecca Attwood reports. Too many young scientists in the UK are asking why anyone would choose a career in...
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Much-deserved fillip for veterans and pioneers
Lisa Jardine has lost count of the number of times people asked her if winning The Times Higher Lifetime Achievement Award meant she was about to retire. "There were a number of occasions after I...
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Hunt to attack Labour's manipulating agenda
The Government is exploiting academics to further its economic policy, the new general secretary of the University and College Union was due to warn this week. At the UCU's inaugural congress in...
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Next week
How green is your university? The first environmental league tables PLUS Rapley of the Antarctic A seasoned crusader against global warming
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Iraqi scientists suffer both here and at home
Academics in Iraq face violence daily, but the international community offers little help, Melanie Newman reports Karem al-Zubaidi does not want to claim benefits from Britain or to class himself as...
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Imperial and RCA draft blueprint for innovation hub
When Sir James Dyson was a student at the Royal College of Art, he would sneak across the road to listen to the lectures of the structural engineer Anthony Hunt at Imperial College. He was inspired...