Just what the doctors ordered
Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, deputy rector of Imperial College London, is tipped to take over as chief executive of the Medical Research Council when Colin Blakemore departs this month. The Times Higher...
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Chopsticks and Marigolds
Two delegates at a conference on China organised by Agora, higher education's newest think-tank, were clearly traumatised by an experience during their visit to the country. At an official banquet...
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In league with the 'Swans'
Swansea Institute of Higher Education's bid for university status could be celebrated on the terraces of its football club if the Privy Council lets it achieve its goal of becoming Swansea...
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When keeping your cool counts
A generational overlap with her students has taken some careful handling, both in person and online, writes Just another Friday night and a twentysomething binge drinker en route to a party bumps...
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A partial solution to widening the skills base
Moves to educate the workforce will not succeed without better support for part-timers, argues David Latchman A cynic might suggest that the name of the new Department for Innovation, Universities...
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Is there no room left for reflection?
'Research' and 'scholarship' are not the same thing, says Frank Furedi. Funding-council culture has seriously devalued the latter. Scholars do not work to a formal job specification. They do not...
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The write stuff and how to get it
Have you got the blank-page blues? Tackle that bout of writer's block with simple exercises aimed at getting your thoughts flowing from pen (or keyboard) to paper once again, says Harriet Swain. Um...
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Back your dissent with authority
Name: Rosemary Craig Age: 57 Job: Part-time lecturer, School of Law, Ulster University, Jordanstown. Salary: £32,000 (pro rata) Background: Mature student in law (starting at the age 31); part-time...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. 'I work in the human resources department of a university and am unclear whether the...
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Who's in who's out?
Oxford Brookes When staff in the vice-chancellor's office at Oxford Brookes University learnt of Janet Beer's appointment, they all read Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth , a title Professor Beer...
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Bristol opens career path to give teachers equal footing
University develops structure to offer teaching staff, like researchers, clear progression route, writes Tony Tysome. The status of academics who specialise in teaching in research-intensive...
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Bristol heart lecture
Coronary heart disease is the biggest single cause of death in the UK, causing one in five deaths in men and one in six in women; almost all of the deaths are due to a heart attack. A leading UK...
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Laurie Taylor Column
What is your degree worth to an employer? According to Anna Vignoles, a leading education economist, student tuition fees should be based on the worth of the degree to employers - The Times Higher,...
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'Smokers are subject to the sort of vilification that, in the past, usually heralded vicious oppression'
When Bob Dylan refused to "go down to Oxford Town", his scruples about the famous university there were understandable. For the subject of the song was Oxford, Mississippi, home of the state's...
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Leader: Don't leave staff at the mercy of the abusive few
On the one hand, more than 80 per cent of students say they are satisfied with the teaching they have received at university, according to the National Student Survey. On the other, 25 per cent of...