For many workers and employers, agency working is an attractive and successful work model. However, for many years there has been debate within Europe and the UK about the extent to which agency...
Data provided by Thomson Scientific from its Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 1997–31 October 2007
Red is the ColourOur Deputy Director of Logo Development, Roger Placement, reacted angrily to last week's news that De Montfort University has updated its logo by replacing the design's existing red...
Jennifer Doubleday, our Head of Personal Development, has asked us to publish a breakdown of the results obtained by those members of staff who recently completed the Part I practical component of...
The flaw of rankings is that all universities have good points, says Alan Ryan
MPs have voted for common sense and common cause in passing the Human Fertilisation Bill intact, says Mary Warnock
A philanthropist who financed the world's first chair of complementary medicine and continued to fund it even as research began to undermine his faith in the field, has been remembered at a memorial...
University needs greater wealth to pay for bursaries and staff growth, says v-c. Melanie Newman writes
The Western preoccupation with IQ levels is one of the main reasons why we have such class bias in the English education system ("Elite institutions' class bias simply reflects 'meritocracy'", 22 May...
I would like to make it clear that Bruce Charlton's views in the paper quoted in last week's Times Higher Education (which has not been peer reviewed) in no way reflect either the ethos or the...
Tim Birkhead writes that "academics, unlike people in other forms of employment, are not motivated primarily by money" ("If you don't like your job ... ", 22 May). He also says: "Research brings its...
In his apologia for the University of Westminster's BSc courses in "complementary therapies", David Peters not only claims that students on these courses gain and exercise a critical ability to "...
I read with interest your article on sexual relationships between academic staff and students ("Sex and the university", 22 May).In 2005, after more than 30 years' service as an academic, I was...
Stephen Ball is right to highlight the difficulties posed by globalised, business-like universities ("Sector is shifting to business ethos without debate, expert argues", 22 May). An interesting...