Glorious Venus struts her stuff
It's early morning on June 8; 6.19 and 46 seconds to be precise. And it is so important to be precise today, writes Steve Farrar. A select audience of scientists and historians at the University of...
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Scotland 'needs £100m'
Scottish universities need more than £100 million in extra funding, according to the Association of University Teachers. In its submission to the Government's comprehensive spending review, the AUT...
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UWE to lead carnival
The University of the West of England will be the lead sponsor of this year's St Paul's Carnival, the Southwest's answer to London's Notting Hill Carnival. Alfred Morris, vice-chancellor of UWE, said...
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Forensic tools down
More than 1,000 scientists working in the Government's Forensic Science Service went on strike over pay as The Times Higher went to press. Prospect, the union representing the scientists, said that...
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Fight to halt cuts failing
A campaign against cuts in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Translation at the University of East Anglia looks set to fail. Despite pressure from staff and students - and comedian Eddie...
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Dinosaur embryo found
Scientists have found the first perfectly preserved embryo of a so-called flying dinosaur inside a fossilised egg. The embryo is a pterosaur, the collective name for flying reptiles that co-existed...
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Correction
A report ("Arrest sparks warning over foreign agents", Times Higher , January 30) stated that David Ben-Menachem had been arrested in Israel. In fact, Mr Ben-Menachem was not arrested, but he was...
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Fee cap poses threat to elite, think-tank warns
Britain's world-class universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, will "wither away into mediocrity" by 2012 if they are not privatised and deregulated, concludes a book from an Oxford University-...
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Proposed rent hike leads to clash at Oxford
Oxford colleges risk alienating working-class school-leavers with plans to increase room rents by up to 50 per cent over three years, student leaders have warned. College heads are in talks with...
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Strike a balance between egotist and sucker
Academics need to be focused on research, but job selection also favours the team player, says Tim Birkhead Always astute in his observations, Darwin wrote the following in Sexual Selection and the...
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Jobwatch: City's practical bid
The 'university for business and the professions' is putting £4 million behind its effort to attract high-flyers specialising in applied research to take it to a new level. Chris Johnston reports...
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Who got that job?
Lucia Nagib Job advertised in The Times Higher , October 17 2003 Lucia Nagib will take up a new chair in world cinema at Leeds University on January 1. The position was one of 20 centenary chairs...
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Learn to look them in the eye and smile
A further education college has set up a teaching research centre that will do more than just produce reports - it will apply its findings, says Mandy Garner The line between further and higher...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Harriet Swain asks teachers how they manage Name: Miye Lee Age: 45 Job: Lecturer in Korean, Newcastle upon Tyne Univer-sity. Salary: Lecturer B scale (up to £34,...
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A fragrant frock for exam time
The fear of smelly armpits could become a thing of the past thanks to the development of a new "smart" dress that releases perfume in stressful situations, writes Anna Fazackerley. Jenny Tillotson, a...