Walking along Oxford Road in Manchester recently I counted six or seven people - leaflets, false smiles - working the crowds. Their shabby anoraks gave them away as street evangelists seeking out...
We should stop rewarding mediocrity and tell it like it is, argues Tim Birkhead Right. When I tap the dashboard I want you to stop as though a child has run out into the road. Bang. Pause. Screech....
Exhibiting a little bit of festive spirit is to be encouraged, writes Harriet Swain, but be sure to follow a few basic rules if you want your Christmas bash to go with a bang Feeling festive? Full of...
There can be few universities in the UK that do not have international students. Although the number of such students varies between institutions, there is no doubt that they are a valued and...
1. The moment at which I believed I had finally made it on to the same pay scale as my male counterpart (after many years of battling), only to find that he had been effortlessly moved up a grade. 2...
* Name: Chris Pegler * Age: 48 * Job: Lecturer at the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University * Salary: Lecturer B scale * Qualifications: BA business (Coventry...
Fancy a lectureship in the Caribbean? As the chill and darkness of winter descends on campuses up and down the country, here is an opportunity for academic life in much warmer, exotic climes. Due to...
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...