Market forces bring wide pay variations
How does your university compare with others in the salary stakes? An exclusive analysis of figures by The Times Higher reveals for the first time the wide discrepancies in average academic salaries...
How does your university compare with others in the salary stakes? An exclusive analysis of figures by The Times Higher reveals for the first time the wide discrepancies in average academic salaries...
An industry worth £35 billion a year 'is being neglected'. Alan Thomson reports Higher education is a £35 billion-a-year Cinderella industry underappreciated by the government, according to a new...
What must the government address in its upcoming strategy paper? Alan Thomson opens a series on the vital issues by asking whether ministers' aims to get half the population into HE are achievable or...
Monday A re-accreditation visit from the professional body to validate my course. The kids on holiday from school and Shirley away with her mother. Preparation for the visit from Finland from our...
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When universities link up with institutions abroad, they can get more than they bargained for. Matthew Chapman reports. When it comes to promoting their courses, United States higher education...
JAMES Bowen (THES, Letters, April 24) displays the sort of views that many of us had hoped had expired with the demise of the previous government. He mistakenly treats individual research grants as...
John Davies gives the schedules a quality audit (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week Does it matter that there are no historians to give us a measured judgement on Anthony Eden's career in...
David Attenborough’s State of the Planet series devotes its second episode (Wednesday 9.10 BBC1) to a useful exposition of the "five human activities that are most threatening to biodiversity" (they...
Belatedly marking the fiftieth anniversary of his death, Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain (Saturday 8.05 C4), is an excellently straightforward introduction to the work of an...
The capping of higher education places in Northern Ireland to save money has backfired as students denied places at local colleges have simply gone to Britain or the Republic of Ireland. Instead of...
FRIDAY December 29 Brendel in Performance (12.05 BBC2). Alfred Brendel playing Schubert, Haydn and Mozart. » Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (12.05 C4). Fourth of Kevin Warwick’s five lectures...
THE EXPANSION of higher education has created a "worrying ambiguity" about cheating, a conference organised by the Society for Research into Higher Education heard last week. Peter Ashworth, head of...
Sunday Off to Stockholm for a conference on human rights in psychiatry. On the plane there is an extremely large man in front of me. His idea of reclining his seat is to push back with all his weight...