Cheers! Here's to changing the world
Georgi Derluguian salutes the social scientists rediscovering the spirit of intellectual revolution and attacking frontiers of knowledge. This toast is to the revolution in social science. May it...
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Reaching for stars won't get rid of rats at home
Manned space exploration is a fantasy exploited by politicians that diverts cash from real science, claims Gerard DeGroot. A few years ago, shortly after the Columbia shuttle disaster, I visited the...
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Score an own goal to rise up the table
League tables work in sport, but in higher education they devalue what they aim to measure, argues Frank Furedi. League tables in football provide a clear indication of which team is most successful...
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Click here for a test of flexibility
Traditional exams may no longer be the best way to establish what a student has learnt. Online assessment not only evaluates what students know, it can develop their understanding, says Harriet Swain...
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A great place to escape to eat cake
Name : Jill Raggett. Age : Old enough to know better. J ob : Reader in gardens and designed landscapes at Writtle College in Essex. I teach students on undergraduate programmes in horticulture and...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. The head of my research team was poached early last year by a rival university. He is...
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RAE fuels trend for research only time
Upwardly mobile institutions increasingly offer posts with reduced teaching loads. Olga Wojtas reports The looming 2008 research assessment exercise is galvanising universities into offering new...
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Who's in, Who's out?
Northampton. Chris Moore, the new dean of social sciences at Northampton University, wants to give more back to the region. Professor Moore, a former social worker who joins from Sheffield Hallam...
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Queen's sets out lofty ambitions with 23 posts
Queen's University Belfast, the newest member of the Russell Group of research-led universities, announced 23 new academic posts in a broad range of subjects this week. The university wants to...
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Today's news
Fees cause fall in university applications The number of university applications dropped by almost 16,000 this year following the introduction of £3,000-a-year tuition fees. Student leaders said the...
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Laurie Taylor Column
Regulations that came into force last October mean that academics can now apply to work beyond the age of 65. Would you choose to work on after the normal retirement age? The Times Higher interviewed...
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Alan Ryan
This is a season that tries the spirit. It's not just the inescapability of seasonal affective disorder, though how anyone in latitudes north of Watford survives the lightlessness of January and...
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Leader: Vocational myth and hard reality
Parity of esteem between academic and vocational courses is one of the recurring obsessions of English education. The feeling is less pronounced in Scotland, where the two traditions are more closely...
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Leader: Help is vital to hit target
The new brief for the Higher Education Funding Council for England is surprisingly precise about the areas in which the Government would wish to see expansion. Workplace learning - last year's...
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UCU on Israel: not in our names
The University and College Union's response to the all-party parliamentary report on anti-Semitism - our new union's first pronouncement on this matter - is evasive, disingenuous and complacent.J In...