Sunday I'm off to São Paolo, where I'm going to set up my part of Cyclic Eye, a four-artist show mixing electronics with early 20th-century technologies such as stereoscopy, zoetropes and, in my case...
Austin Mitchell, MP for Great Grimsby, is a former politics lecturer who has been described by journalists as a "brilliant, witty but erratic small-screen Yorkshire Don Quixote and incurable...
The crowd at the Transparent Transplants conference, held at London's Science Museum last week, was impressed by the British Heart Foundation's altruism - but only briefly. Michael Wilks, chairman of...
Alexander McCall Smith, professor of medical law at Edinburgh University and author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels, is writing a serial in The Scotsman about life in Edinburgh. His...
The rector of Florence University has ordered an investigation into an exam that was "passed" by about 20 students who never took it. It is alleged that they were awaiting an oral exam in dynamic...
The 2004 annual conference of the British Association for American Studies, in Manchester, marks the run-up to the association's 50th anniversary. In the aftermath of the second world war the US was...
Geoff Andrews urges academics to take part in rekindling the spirit of our dissident heritage The late Roy Porter, describing the development of what he called the "British Enlightenment" in the late...
Legislation intended to encourage long-term research contracts could backfire, warns Rob Tanner On the face of it, new UK laws governing fixed-term employees sound like a step in the right direction...
If you want to improve academic performance, why not adopt a corporate strategy à la Network Rail, says Bob Brecher. One of the most challenging intellectual tasks of academics working in today's...
Glasgow Caledonian is making a concerted push to integrate research and business activities with a raft of new professional appointments. Claire Sanders reports. Glasgow Caledonian is after the...
Clive Barnett, 36 Lecturer in Human Geography The Open University Job advertised in The Times Higher on December 6, 2002 There was one glitch when The Open University finally interviewed Clive...
Tutors have a duty of care to students and must prepare for field trips, whether it's springtime in Paris or trekking up Kilimanjaro, says David Nash. Most people think that students are capable of...
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name : Patience Schell Age : 34 Job : Lecturer in Latin American cultural studies, department of Spanish and Portuguese...
The opening shots in what is expected to be the key battleground of the higher education bill in the House of Lords were fired this week, as the planned regulator for university access came under...
Nottingham opens 4,000-student campus in China The University of Nottingham yesterday became the first British institution to announce the establishment of a campus on the Chinese mainland,...