My worst nightmare
Two years before finishing my PhD, I had to cover for a professor who went abroad. I had fantasised about being a professor, but as I have a severe speech disability I did not think it possible. In...
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Quest for a new word order
With universities looking abroad for intellectual inspiration and for students, the profile of distance learning is rising, writes Harriet Swain. One of those to recognise its potential is Graham...
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Biomed team lured to Enfield
Middlesex University has poached a team of top researchers from a leading London medical school as part of its plans to develop a biomedical sciences department. Ray Iles and two of his team were...
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Overseas demand spurs foreign drive
Universities are starting to bolster their international offices in response to British Council predictions earlier this year of a huge increase in foreign demand for higher education. Sheffield...
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Who got that job?
Jim Richards Professor of biomechanics Faculty of Health, Central Lancashire University Job advertised in The Times Higher , February 6 UK athletes won 35 gold medals at this year's Paralympic Games...
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EU sets sights on vigour in learning
The European Commissioner-designate for education and culture has pledged that the incoming Commission will launch a lifelong learning initiative to take effect from 2007. At a European Parliament...
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Loans loophole favours lenders
Opponents of the Bush Administration allege that US Government-backed student loan programmes are enriching private lenders at taxpayers' expense. Critics, including an investigative arm of the...
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Fillon focuses on student welfare
The French Education Minister has promised priority for students' social needs and called for greater international competitiveness in higher education as a growing majority of universities adopt the...
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NZ puts brake on uni bids
The New Zealand Government is to change the law establishing new universities so that any proposal must be in the "national interest", regardless of whether it meets other criteria set out in the...
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Russians demand the best of British
Young Russians show a sophisticated awareness of British higher education as highly qualified applicants increasingly cherry-pick courses and universities. Most inquiries about undergraduate and...
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Do not bank on Bush or Kerry's election pledges
Both US presidential candidates will tell universities exactly what they want to hear, warns Robert Hauptman. Higher education in the US is in flux. More than 15 million Americans attend 4,168...
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Gary Day
Intellectuals should speak out against social inclusion and keep the tasteless working class away from our universities. Those of us concerned about the university being swamped by working-class...
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On the cliff edge: not jumping...
Is the incessant bad press inducing a little paranoia in the higher echelons of the Conservative Party? Posing for The Times Higher 's photographer at the Tory conference this week, Tim Collins, the...
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... but doing a little climbing
Such hesitancy vanished when Mr Collins took the stage. But did his conference speech betray a desire for a more senior post in the Conservative Shadow Cabinet? Mr Collins won wave after wave of...
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Mind your peas and qs
The National Union of Teachers seems to have gone upmarket now that it has moved its travelling circus to the last of the three party conferences. Its fish and chip supper, a hot ticket at the Labour...