First trimester How do you know when you're ready to retire, I asked? You just will, said Professor Already Retired, and I did. But you love your job, they said, you're a 24/7. Will you do some part-...
Art education today bears the fruit of seeds planted in the 1960s. We see it in the wide-ranging creativity of art students, even as we observe the reactionary response of institutions, which since...
Access to higher education can be a big factor in enjoying a healthy life, says Michael Marmot With all the talk around the Higher Education Bill, it is worth remembering that among the benefits of...
Hysteria has set back real discussion of nanotechnology, says K. Eric Drexler The Institute of Physics recently issued a press release, "Nanotechnology Pioneer Slays Grey Goo Myths", on the...
Today you can't escape the committee, but why try? Embrace the five Ps and change your world, says Nick Saunders We all love committees, don't we? Well, maybe. The truth is that sitting on a...
The retirement of the 1960s boom-years art and design academics is leading Nottingham Trent to recruit creatively by offering jobs with reduced levels of administration. Chris Johnston reports A...
Richard Todd Job advertised in The Times Higher September 5 2003 Richard Todd is an academic and British but has never been an academic in Britain. The day after submitting his doctoral thesis at...
Devising a fantasy dog-clipping course showed Humphrey Evans how to make the most of his professional experience as a college tutor. Poodle clipping had never been a craft whose ramifications I had...
What is your experience of teaching? Mandy Garner asks teachers how they manage Name: Rachel A. Harris Age: 35 Job: Lecturer in ethnomusicology at School of Oriental and African Studies Salary: £24,...
Scholars have devised a virtual environment that can help make sense of one of the most complicated episodes of James Joyce's Ulysses . Details of the Bloomsday Machine were revealed in Dublin on the...
Colin Pillinger has vowed to make a second attempt to land a spacecraft on Mars. The Open University professor is determined to launch Beagle 3 despite the failure of his Beagle 2 to communicate...
Graduates lose out on salaries Thousands of graduates still earn less than £20,000 a year by the time they are 30, according to researchers from Cardiff, Bath and Essex Universities. Starting...
Brussels, 17 Jun 2004 Brussels, 23 June 2004 WHO? Philippe Busquin, Commissioner for Research, European Commission In the presence of H.R.H. Prince Laurent of Belgium, President of the Prince Laurent...
Brussels, 17 Jun 2004 Following vote in the Regulatory Committee (16/06) on the release of genetically modified organisms into the environment, the decision to authorise the import and processing of...
Brussels, 17 Jun 2004 A panel of EU national environmental regulators failed to agree, on 16 June, whether or not to allow genetically modified (GM) rapeseed manufactured by Monsanto to be imported...