Paisley party wants to lose HE department
The department for universities and further education in Northern Ireland could prove a casualty of the review of the Good Friday Agreement that began this week. The Reverend Ian Paisley's Democratic...
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Britain rallies to Iraqi cause
The isolation felt by academics at Iraqi universities will ease next week when 12 deans and other managers arrive in Birmingham for the first of a series of training programmes for administrators. A...
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Female educationists come top of the giving league
Clear evidence that education tends to attract people with a philanthropic bent has come from a study of charitable legacies in Northern Ireland since 1930. Educationists comprised the most generous...
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Why I ...believe US visa restrictions will damage science
My husband and I are scientists who emigrated from Europe to the US in the 1960s, returned to Europe for nine years in the 1990s and were then recruited by an American university as senior professors...
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California dreaming
UK higher education faces a far more fundamental problem than top-up fees, writes Trevor Smith The higher education bill sneaked through its Commons second reading with a minuscule majority and its...
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Give part-timers full support
Part-time students play a crucial role in our economy and should be funded accordingly, writes David Latchman More than 40 per cent of students in higher education study part time, and it is...
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TUC polices pay scrum
The Trades Union Congress will intervene to calm hostilities between university trade unions after open warfare broke out this week over pay. Chris Kaufman, who chairs the joint trade unions'...
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Science 'needs to shoot for Mars'
UK science risks stagnation unless it joins the push to send astronauts and robots to Mars, experts have claimed. Scientists meeting this week urged the research councils to unite to persuade the...
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Manic research roundabout is the only ride in town
The RAE monster is breeding a new type of scientist and he's not pretty. Tim Birkhead tells you how to cope Imagine you have recently completed your PhD and just secured a postdoctoral fellowship....
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Jobwatch: Legal Aid boosts staff
Grants from an educational trust set up by City solicitors are enabling university law schools in the UK to compete for lecturers to shore up their faculties. Pat Leon reports At least three English...
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Who got that job?
Malcolm Carr-West, 55 Job advertised in The THES , February 21, 2003 The declining popularity of engineering and the regeneration of the Thames Gateway formed the backdrop to the search for a manager...
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E-tutor of the year: Decision to automate is cause to celebrate
THES/LTSN competition winner Mark Russell tells how he slashed the failure rate on an engineering module The last thing I expected on a cold Monday morning last week was a telephone call to say that...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage Name: Lindsey Martin Age: 48 Job: Academic liaison coordinator to the faculty of humanities, management, applied and social...
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Today's news
Greenfield's not a jolly good fellow, say irate scientists A split has developed within the Royal Society over the nomination of Baroness Greenfield for a fellowship. While supporters say the Oxford...
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GMES ready for implementation phase
Brussels, 05 Feb 2004 After a three year exploratory period, the EU's Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative is ready for the next step on the road to becoming operational,...