A little French polish
Zach Dubinsky looks at the challenges and theopportunities presented by the bilingual university Joseph Heath likes a challenge. The award-winning Canadian philosopher is a native English speaker,...
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Open hearts, open minds and an open door
Generous funding and welcoming attitudes mean foreign academics are flooding into Canada and expats are returning. Stephen Strauss explains Ask Yanqin Wu why she and her husband decided to stay in...
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Fact file
Canada has no federal ministry of education. Its ten provinces and three territories are responsible for all levels of education. A degree of co-ordination is achieved through the Council of...
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'Customer' students to call tune
A debate about the authority of academics in the era of top-up fees was ignited this week after England's top higher education official warned universities that they would be forced to treat students...
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Naturalist fears for 'intellectual life'
Sir David Attenborough, Britain's most revered natural history presenter, has warned that intellectual spirit is being crushed in British universities. Speaking to The Times Higher ahead of the...
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'Kingdom of heaven's siege of Jerusalem was largely rubbish'
Historian John France is bringing the Crusades to life in a TV series about early Christian-Muslim conflict John France, a medieval historian at Swansea University, is starring in a History Channel...
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On the move...
* Glamorgan University has appointed six deans as part of its new faculty-based structure. Peter Robertson will be dean of the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries. Peter Hodson will be...
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DTI caught in free-data row
Anna Fazackerley reports on claims that concern over the profits of the big publishers led the Government to interfere in research council plans to make all research available free online The...
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Tory sparring partners clash over fees policy
The battle for the Tory leadership turns to higher education this week as the two contenders set out their differences on tuition fees and university expansion to The Times Higher . While David Davis...
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Disillusioned staff pack their bags
When Martin Ogilvie first heard he had a job as an academic he drove through the night from Sunderland to Birmingham University. The social policy researcher said he was so excited that someone such...
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Rankings spark debate abroad
The Times Higher 's second World University Rankings have fuelled debate in countries concerned about the future of their higher education systems. The response was especially vigorous in Malaysia,...
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Next week
KOWTOW TO CASH How far do academics bow to the needs of their research sponsors?
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Soas's farewell to arms
The School of Oriental and African Studies has decided to abandon all investments in arms companies and draw up an ethical investment policy, just weeks after The Times Higher revealed the extent of...
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Unfair dismissal award
A senior lecturer from Liverpool Hope University has been awarded £55,000 by an employment tribunal for unfair dismissal. Brenda Ashton, 53, resigned as director of the Centre for English Language at...
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Cash for part-timers
The Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Department for Education and Skills have confirmed that an additional £40 million will be allocated in 2006-07 and 2007-08 for part-time...