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Open offer to tempt research top talent
Aberdeen University this week launched one of the most inventive recruitment drives seen in The Times Higher , inviting academics to apply for jobs it has not advertised and promising top-flight...
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Who got that job?
Peter Bisschop Lectureship in Sanskrit at Edinburgh University Job advertised in The Times Higher , December 3, 2004 With just five UK universities offering courses that include Sanskrit, Peter...
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The Gauntlet gives entrepreneurs a private grilling
The recent BBC Two television show Dragons' Den featured brave entrepreneurial souls so sure that they were on to a winner that they were prepared to pitch their idea in front of the nation to a...
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Europe to ensure PhDs meet needs
With the Bologna Process on track for 2010, European higher education ministers want universities to ensure that doctoral programmes satisfy the broader job market as well as training future...
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Scientists' entente cordiale in Paris
Scientists from the ten newest members of the European Union are opening a dialogue with their French counterparts. Representatives of the academies of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia,...
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Czechs hunt Briton in cash probe
Interpol is helping Czech police and university authorities find a British administrator who disappeared after the discovery of financial irregularities in a European Union-funded programme at...
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Flex competitive muscle and watch equity thrive
Higher education has much to teach schools about the benefits of choice, says Ann Rossiter. Making choice in education real is one of the Prime Minister's "legacy" projects for his third term. For...
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Nancy Rothwell
Our top scientific body is striving to end whispers of blackballing and bias while continuing to admit only the best scientists. Attaining membership of the most exclusive clubs is often a curious...
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So who's an ancient relic now?
Having stepped out from the shadows of Downing Street, Lord Adonis, the new Education Minister, was due to make his parliamentary debut as The Times Higher went to press. As one might expect, the...
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The fear of the frontbencher
Talking of politicians... with the benefit of an Eton education and having taken a first at Oxford University, one might assume that David Cameron, the new Conservative Shadow Education spokesman,...
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A long-indulged silly streak
But from naked ambition to plain nudity. Comedian Arthur Smith returned to his alma mater, the University of East Anglia, at the end of last week to give a speech at the university court - the annual...
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Too clever for their own good
Arthur Smith's recollections were followed by a rather more pungent dish at the UEA: a lecture on the education of teenagers by Sir Mike Tomlinson. Sir Mike's refrain this week was that one side-...
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Tristram Hunt returns to whitehall for a new BBC sitcom
'Comparing this with the hideously worthy West Wing is to breathe in the fresh air of British democracy' The thick of it. BBC 4, Thursdays, 10.30pm-11pm (until June 2) The BBC's new political satire...
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Why I... believe science fiction helps our understanding of science fact
"Do you relish science-fiction films but do not have quite the same feeling about science?" Physicist Leroy Dubeck asked this question in 1993 and then, in his book Fantastic Voyages: Learning...