Brussels, 26 January 2006 ITRE meeting – European Parliament Brussels, 26 January 2006 Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great pleasure for me to have this opportunity to meet you...
Boycotts self-defeating, Israel conference told Academic boycotts against Israel were self-defeating and would only damage its existing relationship with the Palestinians, a conference was told this...
University of Poppleton BA in plagiarism studies Following the increased attention being accorded to the question of plagiarism in higher education, we are pleased to announce the launch of a new...
The Economic and Social Research Council is to be congratulated for carrying out such a comprehensive review of the prospects for the subjects in its care. It is all too easy in popular disciplines...
Away from the increasingly bitter disputes about academic pay, a quiet sea change is taking place in the rights of higher education's most marginalised workers. The European Union has passed a number...
While the threat of strike action by the Association of University Teachers and lecturers' union Natfhe hangs over all in the higher education sector ("Flexing muscles will not improve the figure",...
Regardless of how I decide to vote in the ballot for industrial action, I am always depressed by boardroom justifications for inequitable pay rises along the lines of: "Their remuneration packages...
Ucea is right to argue that the unions should not rush into industrial action. After all, we can trust them, can't we? We haven't seen any significant decline in our salaries in the past decades, we...
I looked forward to Channel 4's recent two-part presentation by Richard Dawkins, The Root of All Evil? After all, here was an Oxford University professor who holds the chair for the public...
Tim Birkhead complains that his daughter, to whose education he makes a financial contribution, has some great teachers but one dull lecturer whose classes students either skip or spend texting their...
Tim Birkhead's change of perspective on university teaching as a result of becoming a parent of a student feels familiar. With a daughter hoping to go to university in 2007, my concerns are partly...
You report both that Bristol is leading the way with 50 per cent of its research staff now on permanent contracts ("Bristol leads culture change", January 6) and that this can be done without...
I am listed in "Wealthy sultans of spin-off cash in on their ideas" (January 20) as one of the 100 top science entrepreneurs who have earned the most money from exploiting their academic work....
Although Voltaire never wrote "I detest what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it", it's not a bad principle. So all credit to The Times Higher for giving space in the January...
I always thought that the point of reviews was to enter into a critical dialogue with the work under scrutiny. This is not the case with Winston Fletcher's lambasting of my book Art and Advertising...