"Don't Look Back?" Do Look Back, but Don't Look Only Back. Look up, look up - seek your Maker. Martin Scorsese, like Bob Dylan, is one heaven of a maker. Dylan till 1966: this was to be the heart...
Last week I was suspended from Middlesex University. I was told I could not enter the premises, nor talk to staff or students at the university. I was escorted off the premises by security. Why?...
As Helen Taylor hands over her files to a new head of school, she reflects on life, death and wedlock It's that time of year when the headships of schools revolve and so, after five years, I am...
UK business and academe must band together to maintain levels of key skills, says Helen Connor If the UK is to be internationally competitive, we have to increase the skills of our existing workforce...
Coursework may be the plodder's option, says Maria Misra, but it can also favour originality over the glib elan that exams too often reward A recent study has claimed that plodder students most...
What should you do when students come to you with personal issues? Listen, advise and above all take them seriously, cautions Harriet Swain, but don't try to solve all of their problems A student...
Name : Mark Pfuhl Age : 39 Job : Lecturer/Royal Society research fellow at the department of biochemistry at Leicester University, doing basic research in structural biology with a focus on proteins...
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council's David Phillips...
Academics at Leeds University are blazing a trail by embedding ethics in all student courses amid a growing national awareness of the need for a more explicit ethical dimension to higher education....
York University is spearheading an autumn jobs bonanza with a raft of new chairs and readerships across a range of disciplines. The university is offering 20 new posts in this week's Times Higher ....
David Clarke Professor of music, International Centre for Music, School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University Advertised in The Times Higher , April 8, 2005 It was an odd moment for David Clarke...
Brussels, 29 Sep 2005 On Wednesday and Thursday next week, the UK Presidency and the European Commission will jointly hold a major conference in London to debate and make recommendations on how risk...
Brussels, 29 Sep 2005 Full text of Document 3621/2/05 Revision 02 Suite of documents 3621/2/05 Strasbourg, 28 September 2005 RECOMMENDATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL TO FACILITATE...
Brussels, 29 Sep 2005 Full text of Document 12636/05 Suite of documents 12636/05 PROVISIONAL AGENDA for: 2111th MEETING OF PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE (Part 1) date: Friday 30 September 2005...
Brussels, 29 Sep 2005 The President of COST - the intergovernmental framework for European cooperation in science and research - has welcomed the Commission's proposals for the Seventh Framework...