Female staff call for state support
A report by a group of French female university professors has urged the government to increase the number of women in senior academic posts. The authors advocate limiting the number of posts an...
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Government 'profits' from investment in university sector
The Australian economy receives more than A$20 billion (Pounds 8 billion) a year from the activities of its universities, according to new research. Higher education's direct contribution is almost A...
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The '60s live on in rural New England
Long-haired students in colourful loose clothing and bare feet navigate a campus of brick and precast concrete buildings papered with handmade notices advertising poetry slams and lectures on such...
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Bit of pure marketing is a Noble study goal
E-commerce is still the main web buzzword, but some online retailers, such as booksellers Barnes & Noble, are turning to a new variant - edu-commerce. Since its launch in May 1997, Barnes...
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Carving out a niche on the web
A specialist carpentry business in the west of Scotland is hoping to gain access to global markets with the help of Paisley University's new e-business centre. Paisley has set up the centre with...
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Net portals are wizards of Oz
An increasing number of Australian universities are establishing virtual gateways that provide staff and students online access to academic, administrative and support resources. Users receive a...
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No place for snobbery in jobs market
Chris Woodhead's parting gift to students receiving A-level results this week - denigrating the degree courses they are entering before they have even accepted their places - is ill-directed. The...
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Some ways to keep the melting pot full of talent
In the third of our series on universities in the 21st century, Rowan Boyson argues for paying Child Benefit into individual learning accounts, private funding and closer community links "Stick to...
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Echoes of TVU in Derby fiasco
As with Thames Valley University we are told there are lessons to be learnt for the sector from a damning Quality Assurance Agency report on the failings of a pioneering new university to protect...
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A tough break
After 20 years as a university administrator, I was a little surprised by your item on the difficulties that academics find in taking their annual holidays ("A holiday - what's that?" THES, August 11...
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A tough break
Academics not taking holidays? Well, like the class struggle, the fight for academic preferment never ceases nowadays. But I suspect that what academics call a holiday is not what is recognised by...
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'We already cough up'
On the basis of our salaries, when compared with our counterparts in industry, the unpaid overtime we do and the fact that we rarely take our full leave entitlement, I estimate that the academic and...
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Subject specifics
We strongly agree that induction courses for new staff should consider the disciplines that they teach and that the new subject centres could support this process ("Coordinated vision", THES, August...
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Subject specifics
Pol O'Dochartaigh is quite right to say that induction courses for new teaching staff should include a subject-specific element. The philosophical and religious studies subject centre of the learning...
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Nature of EP
At the risk of an extra bite of the cherry, may I add to Steven and Hilary Rose's reply (Letters, THES, July 28) to evolutionary psychology and clarify my prior, brief letter (July 21) backing them?...