Applause for those who give young talent a hand
Outstanding Support for Early-Careers Researchers Early-career academics will benefit from a new category in this year's Times Higher Awards. The award, sponsored by Research Councils UK in...
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Assessment reassessed
The Australian Government has delayed introducing a research quality assessment scheme despite a report it commissioned calling for the system to be in place by next year. Julie Bishop, federal...
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Sober spring break in Gulf
Students all over the US are taking their annual spring holidays, traditionally a time for alcohol-blurred fun on tropical beaches. But this year's hot new "spring break" trend is to volunteer to...
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Politician has nothing to chauffeur his study
The vice-mayor of a Romanian town is facing the sack and a jail term after sending his driver to take a university exam in his place. Florin Oancea, from the western town of Deva, has thus far...
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Belarus exiles get EU lifeline
As Alaksandr Lukashenka exploits a contested mandate as President of Belarus to crush opposition, the European Union and the Nordic Council of Ministers have pledged €2.78 million (£1.9 million) to...
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Europe would 'riot' over a fees hike
France's former education minister has publicly endorsed new Labour's scheme of undergraduate tuition fees for English universities, while acknowledging that it would provoke rioting in the streets...
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Degrees at risk in French protests
Many French university students have been unable to attend classes over the past six weeks, or have had their studies seriously disrupted, as a result of protests against Prime Minister Dominique de...
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Rest easy, most students are right behind boycott
While he regrets targeting assessment in the pay dispute, Simon Ungar believes astute undergraduates support the action It's not the letters from our vice-chancellors reminding us that students are...
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Gary Day
Look, I am a teacher. I'm supposed to repeat myself, OK? I say this to ward off the charge that what I am about to say may have been said before. I am referring to the idea that skills are more...
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I thought he was god, now I'm not so sure
Michelangelo Drawings: closer to the master The British Museum, London, until June 25 We go back a pretty long way, Michelangelo and I. At least as far as an afternoon in the early 1960s, when as an...
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Lower form of life than lab rats...
Academics' opinions of students are now so low that they can't even use them as guinea pigs on research projects it appears. One researcher received the following rejection after submitting a paper...
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...less important than cola
Students' opinions of academics, on the other hand, remain unclear. The National Union of Students maintained its long tradition of interminable debate on the big issues of the day during its annual...
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Winning friends...
Sir Howard Newby, the former funding chief, was known as a smooth operator in the corridors of Whitehall. Now these talents are coming in handy during the rounds of introductory meetings with staff...
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...or recruiting followers?
Sir Howard is also breaking new ground in the advertising stakes. In last week's Times Higher , UWE advertised for several senior posts beneath a full colour image of Sir Howard. Could this set a new...
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Almighty decisions made on a Sunday
Two scholars are under attack for accusing the pro-Israeli lobby of distorting US policy. Anthony Lang says the Church has far more clout Stories are powerful. Even in a world tortured by guns, tanks...