Gary Day
A brainstorming session on how to recruit the next intake of undergraduates results in innovations and some scorched thighs We all need undergraduates. How would universities survive without them?...
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At sixes and sevens over 3K
Has the Labour Government already decided to raise the cap on top-up fees, four years before its 2009 review of the current £3,000 limit? Chris Grayling, Tory higher education spokesman, this week...
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Taxing times for trailing Tories
But although the Tories may have put clear blue water between themselves and Labour over tuition fees, academics shouldn't expect higher education to be a central plank of Conservative electioneering...
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Well in there
Appearing before the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee can be a bruising business, and senior figures in the higher education policy world were taking no chances when they were...
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Cambridge TLC for 'ELC'
Cambridge University students are showing new solidarity with neighbouring Anglia Polytechnic University by helping the institution think up a new name. Suggestions in Varsity magazine include...
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Tasteful request
In the gents' toilets of Oxford University's plant sciences department, an official notice reads: "Please don't throw chewing gum into the urinal as it tastes horrid afterwards." diary@thes.co.uk
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Sarah Marr: review
Punkscience: The Albert Einstein Experience Dana Centre, Science Museum, London May 17, 24 and 31 As I travelled home on Tuesday night, my beloved iPod began to play Secret Message , by Gothic "cello...
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Why I object to Boston University's proposed 'bioterror' research laboratory
It is the best of times and the worst of times as the reign of bioterror tightens its grip on the US science academy. And recent events at Boston University perfectly symbolise the dual nature of...
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Learn that dirty word
The new fees market is about to kick off, but is your university match fit? asks Mike Goldstein Those who spend Saturdays watching "the beautiful game" will be familiar with a chant often directed at...
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From party twit to parity wit
Ellie Levenson became a convert to inclusivity after realising that the snob lecturing students was her When I arrived at my redbrick university in the Nineties, I felt perfectly justified in...
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You'd better make some noise while you can
It's time to take risks in the name of academic freedom, argues Frank Furedi Academic freedom is so crucial to the integrity of academic life that even those politicians, bureaucrats and...
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My worst nightmare
A few years ago, as external examiner for an institution in Sri Lanka, I got a day off and I was taken to an elephants' orphanage. As I walked through the lush vegetation, I passed an attractive Sri...
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Fill in the gaps with inspiration
Chancellor Gordon Brown last week urged students to do more voluntary work in their gap year. And once they've caught the volunteering bug, what better place to continue such work than in the...
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Some apples leave a bitter taste
A student's crush may at first seem flattering, but if you handle it badly things could turn nasty. Harriet Swain suggests ways to avoid any unpleasant consequences She blushes as you walk into the...
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Teacher audit
Name : Melanie Hani Age : 31 Job : Programme leader for animation and design, Sunderland University. Salary : Disproportionate to the spread of global wealth. Qualifications : BA (Hons) in design...