Stephen Greer: Heard the one about Hiroshima?
Political Animal, Smirnoff Underbelly Edinburgh Festival Fringe, until August 28, £10.50 Though the festival organisers have announced that this year's shows are more political than ever before, it...
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New kit for new degree season
Former Wolves, Charlton, Millwall and Sheffield Wednesday footballer Lawrie Madden is set to teach an MA in sports broadcast journalism at Staffordshire University. Students will be put through their...
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Talk about fatal flaws
Ever eager to improve the public relations skills of public sector workers, the Government is to hold a conference on "communicating professionalism" in November in London. But an e-mail about the...
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Flight follows fright
Talking of government communications, it appears that press officers on the higher education desk at the Department for Education and Skills have a shorter shelf life than the ministers they work for...
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Modesty will get results
UK academics may be tired of the growing culture of plagiarism, but things could be worse. Cheating during university entrance examinations in Nigeria is so rife that officials are considering the...
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Don't count on the BBC
Standards were rigorous this week on the BBC website, where journalists are clearly highly skilled in mathematics as well as communication. The site broke the following startling news on student...
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Why I... think designers are undervalued
The row over University College London's new logo shows that graphic design is just as undervalued and misunderstood as it has always been. One thing that drove me mad when I worked as a designer...
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Our private concerns
The monopolistic and unaccountable QAA needs real competition, argues Geoffrey Alderman The word "private" occurs only once in the review of the quality assurance framework, the first report of which...
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Losing out on the shore thing
More needs to be done to stop the erosion of our coastline and our national identity, says Mark Horton Sometimes it takes anniversaries to focus national attention on events in our past. Certainly,...
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Looking beyond the pall of smoke
As London rebounds from July's terror attacks, Kevin Fong considers the difficult task facing academics striving to understand the motives of those responsible Is that the broken bus?" My three-year-...
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From Hi-de-Hi to the Hindu Kush
Our holiday habits have changed and a beach is no longer the first port of call. You may be an adventurer or a 'dark tourist' but you still need to chill out wherever you end up this summer, says...
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A love of language made in Taiwan
Name : Stephan Feuchtwang Age : 67 Job : Senior research associate of the department of anthropology, London School of Economics. Salary : Low on the professorial scale. What is your background? My...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. Recently I submitted a grant proposal to a research council. It was sent to two...
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QAA raps reliance on hourly paid staff
Quality watchdogs have told South Bank University not to rely too heavily on hourly paid lecturers. The rare official criticism of employment practices was hailed by one union as vindication of its...
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Oxford boosts equality drive after dismissal payout
Oxford University's colleges have rushed to beef up their equal opportunities policies after an expensive out-of-court settlement of an unfair dismissal case in which Keble College was accused of...