The natter really does matter in a solo world
Discover the joy of talking shop with colleagues and enliven your private, self-fulfilling work, says Paul Orsmond Stereotypes are useful, particularly when you want to make a point. Consider...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage Name: Darren Reynolds Age: 34 Job: Senior lecturer in environmental science/health at the University of the West of England...
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Carlisle campus 'not viable'
Northumbria University has been criticised by Carlisle MP Eric Martlew over plans to sever links with its campus in Carlisle. The university is proposing to hand over the campus, which is said to be...
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London students get lesson in flying high
Students from London's modern universities are getting a helping hand up the career ladder by the capital's business organisation London First. More than 20 large companies have taken on 45 students...
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In the news: Mark Haysom
Mark Haysom, the Learning and Skills Council's newly appointed chief executive, can expect to find himself on a steep learning curve. After graduating in English from Leicester University, he has...
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Principal contender
The prime minister may this week be sunning himself on a beach in Barbados, but his mind is elsewhere. Colleagues say Tony Blair is not particularly good at leaving his work completely behind, so by...
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Appointments
* Julian Jackson, professor at the University of Wales at Swansea, is to join the history department at Queen Mary, University of London. * Christopher Pelling, fellow of University College London...
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Skills flagship fails to inspire
The government's skills strategy came under fire this week as figures revealed that success rates among students on modern apprenticeship programmes have in some cases fallen to as low as 16 per cent...
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International Union of Students marks its comeback with call for worldwide day of protest
The International Union of Students, largely moribund since the fall of communism, is seeking to re-establish itself with a call for a global day of student action in support of public education to...
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From pulling pints to supervising staff
Taking a modern apprenticeship has raised 21-year-old Sarah Baxter's career aspirations from a good job behind the bar to a management position at Yates's Wine Lodge in Liverpool. Though she said the...
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Think-tank condemns Tory plan to scrap fees
Conservative plans to scrap student tuition fees and halt university expansion are wrong, while the government's top-up fees policy is a step in the right direction, according to the UK's leading...
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Mains leak cuts turnout
There's water, water everywhere at Southampton University, from sailing on the Solent to the world-class oceanography centre. But not a drop to drink this week as the UK headed towards the hottest...
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A wing and a prayer
Creationists should stick to discourse on religion and leave the peppered moth to get on with evolution, says Michael Majerus We biologists in Britain have long felt superior to some of our US...
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Gary Day
'At four my daughter was the perfect surrealist... To this day, the cat still has bits of wax in its fur from where she tried to use it to polish the floor' "Every columnist has to do a travel story...
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Don's diary: be-saried and bewitched
Monday First day at Avinashilingam Women's University, India, where I am a visiting lecturer for two weeks as part of a British Council exchange. Appropriately, the university is in the town of...