Baku
Two Azerbaijani students who claimed they were expelled from their universities on political grounds have been reinstated after a three-week hunger strike. The students, Turan Aliyev of the Pedagogic...
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Paris
Efforts to save the Librairie Place de la Sorbonne, a cultural and intellectual landmark in the Latin Quarter of Paris for more than 80 years, have failed. The bookshop on Boulevard St-Michel will...
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Behind freedom's veil, they plot for revolution
Hizb ut-Tahrir is targeting Muslims on UK campuses to overthrow our allies, warns former member Shiraz Maher "The Current Affairs Society? It's just an intellectual platform for discussing Muslim...
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Booted out of complacency
The death of his PC taught Kevin Fong that his most valuable possession was not a computer but its contents It is impossible to exist in the university universe without being heavily dependent on a...
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Let them tune in to the degree DJ
Heard about podcasting? No, it's not a disease as some of your colleagues believe, says Harriet Swain, it is a lively way of broadcasting information to technologically savvy students Broadcasting...
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Beautiful figures, vital statistics
Name: Duncan Lawson Age: The right side of 50 Jobs: Professor of mathematics education and associate dean in the faculty of engineering and computing at Coventry University. I am also Coventry...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. I am in my 50s but new to academia. I fear that I am going to be left out of the 2008...
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West set to fill gaps in dentistry
Plymouth and Exeter universities, which jointly run Peninsula Medical School, will be looking to fill at least 35 academic posts after a successful bid to create a dental school for the South West....
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Who's in who's out?
BATH Straight men no longer need to prove their heterosexual credentials thanks to a general decrease in homophobia, says Eric Anderson. Dr Anderson, who has joined Bath University as lecturer in...
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Staff unready for new age challenges, survey says
Age discrimination is "deeply ingrained" in higher education, and most university staff are unaware of forthcoming laws that will protect them from unfair treatment, experts said this week. Following...
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Rachael Johnson: The geeks shall inherit the basement
THE IT CROWD Fridays, 9pm, Channel 4 If there's one thing that ten years in the front line of university IT support services has taught me, it's that IT nerds are a race apart. They even stand out...
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Take it back with flowers
In these commercially focused times, universities need events and communications people to smooth their diplomatic path. But it seems some are more adept than others. Spare a thought for the poor...
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Hefce panel raises eyebrows
After months of speculation about who will fill Sir Howard Newby's shoes as chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the panel making the recommendation has finally met....
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Dark horse with a hint of blue
The final three contenders for the Hefce top job are still widely believed to be Ivor Crewe, chief executive of Universities UK; David Eastwood, vice-chancellor of the University of East Anglia; and...
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Red tape has made comrades of us all
Christopher Read detects the stench of Soviet bureaucracy as new RAE criteria force academics to meet Five Year Plan-style targets It was in Leningrad in 1971 that I wrote my first personal...