Study to explore extent of bullying in academe
As lecturers' unions report concern about bullying in higher education, The Times Higher this month launches the first survey to canvass academics at all levels for their views on the subject....
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Parliament's FP7 rapporteur promises to fight for the right outcome
Brussels, 02 Jun 2005 The European Parliament's rapporteur on the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) proposals has admitted that it will be very difficult to reach a timely decision on the issue as...
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Commission sets out digital strategy for the future
Brussels, 02 Jun 2005 Take-up of high-speed 'broadband' Internet connections is growing fast, according to new figures released on 1 June by Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding...
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International consortium unveils largest Universe simulation ever
Brussels, 02 Jun 2005 After five years of work, an international consortium of scientists, drawn largely from Europe and led by the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, has developed the largest...
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Multinational calls for 'fundamental overhaul' of framework programmes
Brussels, 02 Jun 2005 A 'fundamental overhaul is in order of the entire procedural financial and administrative implementation system of the Framework Programme,' according to Philips, the...
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EARMA annual conference
Brussels, 02 Jun 2005 The European Association of Managers and Research Administrators (EARMA) will hold its annual conference in Genoa, Italy, from 16 to 18 June. The title of the event will be '...
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Today's news
Students' watchdog upholds complaint against Oxford Brookes A complaint made by a group of osteopathy undergraduates against Oxford Brookes University has been upheld by the watchdog for students. In...
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Laurie Taylor Column
From: The Departmental Secretary (Maureen) To: Full-time, part-time, casual and downright marginal staff The following points apply to this year's finals marking: 1. Following a dispute over the...
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Kevin Fong gets out his light sabre to feel the force again
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith does exactly what it says on the tin. It’s a 206-minute special-effects, eye-candy romp with wonderful but readily predictable crowd-pleasing plot...
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Leader: Students make more demands
A new voice can be added to the chorus of academics concerned about dumbing down and the decline of undergraduate standards: that of the students themselves. One of the most startling findings of the...
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Leader: Spend wisely or lose it
The allocations of the next three years of UK science spending give research a major cash increase in real terms. This is part of a ten-year programme that should put billions of extra pounds into...
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This age-old issue is irrelevant
The need to replace staff who retire ("Job boom looms as older staff bow out", May ) may create increased opportunities for younger academics. But why this age discrimination? The National Audit...
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Teaching is on course 1
The spate of letters whingeing about courses for new lecturers reminds me of students who, when they bother to show up at all, sit sullenly at the back of the lecture hall, fall asleep halfway...
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Teaching is on course 2
Richard Austen-Baker (Letters, May ) suggests that the value of training higher education teachers to teach can be evaluated if we get "proper scientific evidence as to whether students actually do...
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No example
Ann Rossiter, acting director of the Social Market Foundation, urges state schools and colleges to follow higher education into the market (Opinion, May ). This is the intention of the "basically...