Australia's deans of education have called on the federal Government to establish special universities to focus on training schoolteachers. In recent years, two thirds of faculties of education have...
Student protests continue in France against a proposed youth employment plan that unions claim will erode employment rights for young people, writes Jane Marshall in Paris. The contrat première...
The number of Syrians studying in the US has declined by a third over the past five years, with universities in Syria benefiting directly as they enter a period of dramatic reform. Syria's...
Those who back animal research have a moral duty to speak up, says 16-year-old Pro-Test organiser Laurie Pycroft Animal research has been seen as a guilty secret for a while now. There is a steady...
The time galleries Royal Observatory, Greenwich Just before stepping inside the Royal Observatory, perched on Greenwich Park Hill, I stop to take one more look at the wonderful view. A stretch of...
Government departments have found that computerising things leads only to trouble. Last week, The Times Higher learnt this lesson the hard way as glamorous guests flooded to the party to launch the...
Huddled in a corner of the gallery we found Dennis Hayes, the president-designate of Natfhe, talking to Simon Davies from the London School of Economics. Mr Davies spoke out recently in The Times...
For some, there can never be enough champagne. Colin Pillinger, the brains behind the Beagle 2 mission and owner of the most impressive sideburns in academia, and Nick Newman, the cartoonist whose...
A good work-life balance for staff used to compensate for low pay but not any more - it's time to close the wage gap Next week, barring head-spinning turnarounds, I will be going on strike over pay....
The unions are guilty of underhand toing and froing - small wonder there is no pay offer on the table It seems that I am likely, for the first time in my life, to cross a picket line. As an active...
Ever felt ideas would flow if only you could escape your stuffy office? John Zeisel on the neuroscience-architecture link Winston Churchill proclaimed: "We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape...
Tim Birkhead proposes a simple way to protect the innocent from accusations of academic fraud The great British physiologist Sir Edward Albert Schäfer, who died in 1935, was described in his obituary...
Film and video can be wonderful teaching tools, but to maximise their potential you must think clearly about what you want to achieve, then plan with military precision, advises Harriet Swain Worried...
Name : Karen Jones Age : 33 Job : Lecturer in American history, aka the "wolf woman" (see below). Background : I gained a BA in history at Warwick University and a masters in contemporary history at...
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. I am about to start a new post with a local university. Ihave always worked in the...