Faye Doris is chair of the racial equality working group at Plymouth University. She is the academic lead for midwifery in the university's School of Health Professions, faculty of health and social...
Managers at Salford University are "complicit in acts of discrimination" and close ranks to protect each other against misconduct claims, staff have alleged in an equality audit commissioned by the...
Pascale Allotey arrived at Brunel University from Melbourne last December to take up the newly created post of professor of race and diversity. Professor Allotey is a medical anthropologist and...
The link between accountability and accounting is crucial to institutions' good governance, says Nigel Savage Much has been written in recent years about the accountability burden in the private and...
WAR, WOMEN AND SURVIVAL Weston Gallery, Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham University, until December 15 As the average cost of a wedding in Britain today rises to a reported Pounds 15,000, it is...
Dropping out costs. It costs universities vital money and kudos and funding bodies their investment. It is the dropout student, however, who may finish up paying the highest price - and not just by...
We shouldn't dismiss the gender debate as passe - it's just getting interesting, says Mary Evans Anthony Giddens described the 20th century as the century of women. Eric Hobsbawm has also pointed out...
Third-party mediation can work wonders in university employment disputes, explains Jan Scrine When I arrived in higher education some years ago from "outside" - in my case from the private sector - I...
Sharing your troubles with students is unprofessional, says Susan Bassnett One of the biggest differences between teaching in a university and teaching in a school is the age of the students. In a...
If you want to recruit star researchers, rather than the 'extinct volcano' variety, you need to catch them on their way up, and lure them with a great team and abundant resources, says Harriet Swain...
Name: Euan G. Nisbet Age: Able to remember the Coronation (just); and took part in the 1969 Cambridge sit-in. Job: Geology professor at Royal Holloway, University of London. Co-ordinator of the...
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. I work at quite a small university. I originally felt comfortable with the people I...
UCLAN Tim Thornton, an academic who applies philosophy and philosophical concepts to treating people with mental illness, has joined the University of Central Lancashire. He said mental illness threw...
University staff are overwhelmingly satisfied with their pay, work-life balance and career development, according to a contentious report. The report finds that some 87 per cent of managerial and...
University personnel managers are less likely to find out how their staff are feeling than those in the private or public sectors, according to the HR Benchmarker Services, writes Phil Baty. The...