Scottish academics will have to wait two years before the extra money promised to their universities is translated into higher pay, and the delay will give English institutions an edge in recruiting...
Poul Christofferson Lecturer, Centre for Glaciology, Institute for Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth Job advertised in The Times Higher , March 12, 2004 From his office...
Do you like the turkey, Roger? I thought it would make a nice change from the usual goose. It's a Jamie Oliver recipe with leeks and porcini mushrooms. He calls it his "cheeky Christmas turkey". Does...
The US values university science departments as part of the general educational provision. Why doesn't the UK? I was turfed out of schoolboy chemistry at the age of 13. Barely tall enough to see over...
Only self-serving Professor Welches have anything to fear from new university chairs, says Chris Hackley The boom in the number of chairs in British universities has been seized on as a sign of...
Ministers must have known when they established a task force to assess the potential for increasing private donations in higher education that there would be a cost to bear. Although the point of the...
The arrival of the third Education Secretary of this Parliament, joining the third Higher Education Minister in the same period, is a reminder of what rare stability universities and colleges saw...
I was surprised to read that my university, Nottingham Trent, "would look for less in the way of quantity of research output than would happen in old universities" ("Is an easy chair culture taking...
Surrey University has long recognised the challenge between the need to maintain the academic integrity of the professoriat and the need to reward academic staff who are both good teachers and...
The fact that the professor of media and film studies at University College, Winchester does not know the difference between "accusative" and "accusatory" is surely indicative (if not indicatory)....
Surely the future of Aimhigher - designed to widen access to higher education - is threatened by a lack of clear measures for its £300 million investment? There are some worrying signs that the...
Chris Patten's article "Fear and secrecy pose a threat to our future", (November 26) reveals, perhaps surprisingly, that he agrees with some of the ideals of the British Union for the Abolition of...
Your leader makes the point that a year after the Lambert report, little has changed to aid "third stream" projects in universities ("Third stream is not third class", December 10) CMU was under the...
Nicholas Cull's mention of R. J. Unstead's Looking at History as "the textbook that changed my life" (Textbook Guide, November 26) did, no doubt, provide many of us with the chance to go down Memory...
Your report on Durham University's learner sensitivity programme ("'Ethics' ruling raises fears for free speech", December 17) will be very good news for academics in the North. Surely, there will...