Suzi Q (and A)
Have you ever suspected that your vice-chancellor's mind isn't always entirely on the job at hand? One high-profile v-c, whose identity we had better keep secret, ended up telling us more than we...
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The King has not left the building
Are coal and oil the Earth's dirty, dwindling foes or humanity's loyal friends? Mark Jaccard argues for fossil fuels' zero-emission future The reign of King Coal - and his royal cousins, crude oil...
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Poor English, plagiarism and no-shows...
... The Times Higher asks academics what they find most frustrating about their students "Although, for the most part, my students are bright and well motivated, there are some nagging annoyances...
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Why are the best degrees for sale?
Students in paid work get poorer results, but what can academics do about it? asks Bob Brecher As The Times Higher recently reported ("Paid work takes toll on class of degree", November 25, 2005) a...
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Target practice for a new year
Your own enthusiasm could be key to engaging students in setting career goals and identifying which of their achievements they can build on. Help them by doing it yourself too, advises Harriet Swain...
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It's the stuff of agony and ecstasy
Name : Alison Halstead Age : 50 Job : Dean of learning and teaching, Wolverhampton University. Salary : Salary is fine, but the tax kills it. Background : Physics undergraduate at Imperial College...
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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 on a three-year contract that is due to end this month. I have about 19 years of...
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Law may backfire on fixed term staff
Contract researchers fear that the research assessment exercise is hampering universities' efforts to switch staff from fixed-term contracts to permanent ones in line with European Union regulations...
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Who's in who's out?
ROEHAMPTON As witness to the ethnic "cleansing" practised by Serbian forces in the 1992-95 Bosnian war, Gregory Kent (pictured), a former journalist, will offer students a taste of reality when he...
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Grad UK seeks to ring-fence skills-training budget
University staff involved in training postgraduate research students and postdoctoral researchers are worried that they will lose ring-fenced funding for their work. Concerns that research council...
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Law may backfire on fixed term staff
Contract researchers fear that the research assessment exercise is hampering universities' efforts to switch staff from fixed-term contracts to permanent ones in line with European Union regulations...
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Greece instructed to discontinue its prohibition of MON 810 hybrid maize seeds (OJ link)
Brussels, 12 January 2006 Commission Decision of 10 January 2006 concerning the provisional prohibition in Greece of the marketing of seeds of maize hybrids with the genetic modification MON 810...
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First Galileo signals transmitted by GIOVE-A
Paris, 12 Jan 2006 The GIOVE-A satellite is in good health and started transmitting the first Galileo signals from medium Earth orbit on 12 January. GIOVE-A was placed in orbit (altitude 23,260 km)...
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GALILEO: EU and the Republic of Korea seal their agreement
Brussels, 12 January 2006 Following exchanges that lasted for six months, negotiations on the Republic of Korea’s participation in Europe’s satellite radionavigation programme...
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Innovation scoreboard: Mixed results
Brussels, 12 January 2006 The fifth edition of the European Innovation Scoreboard reveals that Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Germany and Denmark are the European innovation leaders. Most of the new...