Fingers on buzzers
Starter For Ten Cinemas nationwide For me, the most improbable detail in Starter for Ten is the fact that the hero's tutor appears in the audience at the recording of University Challenge . In my day...
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...Adam Smith should be our guide
For a sound, self-sustaining and truly inclusive system, Graham Hills argues... The business of student fees is about to be bungled again - by the Government, by the political parties in their...
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Bard's desires reflected by dark doppelganger
Shylock is more than a character, Kenneth Gross says, he is Shakespeare himself Shakespeare's Shylock thinks like a dramatic artist. He is the playwright's double, in fact. Shylock is Shakespeare, a...
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I just won't wear that uniformity
As universities become more like schools, how long until a national curriculum is foisted on us? asks Frank Furedi From time to time, the university becomes the focus of public concern. Usually...
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Mark off miles on trip to unknown
A lecture can be like a long journey where the audience does not always know the final destination. So, advises Harriet Swain, break up your material into sections and provide landmarks along the way...
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Cool air for when life's no breeze
Name : Susan Starkings. Age : Old enough. Job : Head of skills for learning, Centre of Learning Support and Development, London South Bank University. Salary : Awaiting higher education role analysis...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. After working full time as a lecturer since 2001, I took a year's maternity leave and...
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Stars in oncology sought
Manchester University is seeking 30 world-class academics for its Cancer Research Centre in a drive to improve medical research. The initiative will include up to 300 new posts. The university,...
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Who's in who's out?
HERIOT-WATT. At 44, Anton Muscatelli , who succeeds John Archer as principal on February 1, is probably the youngest vice-chancellor of a pre-92 institution. He has been Daniel Jack professor of...
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Work-life culture praised
Accolade for Liverpool John Moores could lure staff. Olga Wojtas reports Liverpool John Moores has become the first UK university to earn an Investors in People award for promoting work-life balance...
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Laurie Taylor Column
" Research suggests that what counts for today's academic is not high intelligence but high emotional intelligence " - The Times Higher, November 24 Good morning, Maureen Morning, Professor Lapping...
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Leader: Pressure gauge is creeping up
Vice-chancellors still feel the need to justify so-called Mickey Mouse degrees while funding council officials cast a (slightly) critical eye over initiatives to widen participation in higher...
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Hood loses Oxford vote
Oxford University academics this week voted decisively to scrap their vice-chancellor's controversial plans to reform the way the ancient institution is run. The dons' parliament, Congregation, voted...
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Open debate on course closure 1
Last week's cover story ("Johnson acts to halt closures", November 24) hints that ministers are belatedly acknowledging that their refusal to act over department closures is endangering wider policy...
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Open debate on course closure 2
Some of the discussion stimulated by the proposed closure of the physics department at Reading University gives the impression that increased student recruitment would avert such problems in the...