Profligate honorifics
It is becoming increasingly common for managers to misuse honorary and visiting academic titles. The National Health Service is particularly guilty. One comes across people who use the title "...
It is becoming increasingly common for managers to misuse honorary and visiting academic titles. The National Health Service is particularly guilty. One comes across people who use the title "...
Some may fear the prospect of the National Health Service University poaching pre-registration nursing education ("Health academics voice fears over NHSU takeover", THES , October 17), others may not...
Some may fear the prospect of the National Health Service University poaching pre-registration nursing education ("Health academics voice fears over NHSU takeover", THES , October 17), others may not...
Student nurses become "less idealistic and more realistic" as they progress through their training, but they still perceive listening to patients as the most important part of their caring function,...
* Westminster University has appointed Trevor Morris visiting professor of public relations. He is former chief executive officer of Chime Communications Public Relations. * Gavin Reid , an economics...
Liz Frayn draws a distinction between training and education in medicine (THES, October 24). "Need to know" training is insufficient if professionals are to be able to adapt to new situations and...
Bosses want work-ready recruits, but academics argue that they may end up less happy than before if universities cultivate skills, not intellect, writes Hannah Fearn
The Arts and Humanities Research Council has appointed a professor of art history as its new director of research. Shearer West will take up the post in May. Professor West is a professor of art...
A lack of quantitative analysis and a tendency to avoid policy-based research has left the study of higher education in the doldrums, John Gill hears
University unable to tell its arts from its elbow Australia’s leading woman academic sought to assert her claim yesterday over hundreds of works of art on display at a university by revealing that...
Scientists say degree courses in complementary therapies and alternative medicine are 'baloney' and 'mumbo-jumbo'. CAM academics disagree passionately. Zoe Corbyn checks out the fray
The Higher Education Policy Institute, launched today, has announced its advisory board members. They are: Lord Dearing; Roger Brown, principal of the Southampton Institute; Sir Graeme Davies,...
A sanctuary for academic pursuit or a hotbed of entrepreneurship? While educators quibble over the definition of a university, writes Matthew Reisz, all agree that academic freedom is at its core.
Rebecca Attwood reports on latest rival methodologies and the concerns about tables' effects on institutions. Universities should boycott league tables, argued one educationist this week as the...
BIOGRAPHY- Leni Riefenstahl: A LifeBy Jurgen Trimborn, professor of film, theatre and art history, University of CologneI. B. Tauris, £14.99. ISBN 9781845116446Trimborn uses detailed research and his...