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  1. The end of the affair

    Meanwhile the Tories' love affair with science, made public last year with the appointment of Robert Key as Shadow Science Minister, has turned out to be the briefest of flings. Mr Key has gone off...

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  2. Interesting table talk

    Stem-cell researchers may have felt a little anxious last week when the news broke that Merlin Biosciences, the biotech venture capital firm founded by Sir Chris Evans, was being investigated by the...

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  3. Inexact science with an irresistible pull

    Supernova: the Black Hole BBC Two, 10pm Tuesdays from October 11 Despite my 35 years' experience of astronomy and professional observers, it had never occurred to me that an observatory could provide...

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  4. Why I...

    ...think introducing SATs for university applicants in Britain is a waste of time Nearly four decades ago as a sixthformer, I sat for three hours at an exam desk, ticking the answer boxes of a new...

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  5. We're not elephants

    Mark Israel wonders why ethics committees treat researchers like dangerous, clumsy beasts In 2001, an Australian social scientist was awarded a national competitive grant to study sexual assault in a...

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  6. Creative solutions for survival

    Vulnerable fields can be saved by sharing expertise nationally, says David Vincent The law of unintended consequences was promulgated by Robert Merton in 1936. He identified the first three causes of...

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  7. Fear not little fish in big ponds

    Susan Bassnett has a word of advice for all those at the bottom of the research food chain Recently, two encounters have made me reflect on the vast difference in attitudes to research between...

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  8. Feeling 3ft high all of a sudden?

    Starting a new job can feel like your first day at school. If bewilderment and anxiety overwhelm you, don't despair, get to know colleagues and ask all the questions you like (even the stupid ones),...

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  9. The tipple and the Thais that bind

    Name: Andrew Atherton Age: 39 Job: Professor of enterprise and entrepreneurship and director of the Enterprise Research and Development Unit, Lincoln Business School, Lincoln University. Background:...

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  10. Ask the panel

    Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. I am about to take a contract as a senior academic. It does not specify days or hours...

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  11. Senior UCL staff condemn job cuts

    Senior academics at University College London fear that teaching and research standards will fall if the institution goes ahead with plans to cut 15 per cent of posts, according to a union survey of...

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  12. Who's in who's out?

    WEST OF ENGLAND Photographer and legal expert Blu Tirohl (pictured) has been lured back to the UK from Sweden to establish a photography degree at the Bristol School of Art, Media and Design (AMD) at...

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  13. Edinburgh to delve deeper into paranormal phenomena

    Edinburgh University is boosting its pioneering research into parapsychology with an advertisement in this week's Times Higher for three posts, including a chair, in its Koestler parapsychology unit...

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