Making sure that we can make a difference
Despite Aimhigher's successes, it still has some way to go before proving it is widening participation, says John Selby. This month, I met seven young people determined to overcome their personal...
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Expensive way to make a point
Casual clobber might have a certain credibility on campus, says Kevin Fong, but it doesn't win you much respect in the real world. Within universities our ability to reject the power suit in favour...
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Switch over to a new identity
If you think that Second Life is where you need to be to enhance your teaching and enthuse your students, be sure you do the groundwork. Harriet Swain outlines the first steps of your virtual future...
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Answering e-mails, solving crimes
Name: Brian Rankin Age: 52. Born the year the hovercraft was invented and a vaccine for polio was made. Job: Head of the Centre for Forensic Investigation, Teesside University Salary: More than the...
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Ask the Panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. 'I am a student accommodation manager at a large higher education institution. Under...
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Who got that job?
Stuart Walker. Co-director Imagination@Lancaster, Lancaster University. Position advertised in The Times Higher , October 20, 2006 Stuart Walker must have one of the widest yet least tangible...
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Postdocs embittered by lack of career prospects
Only one in seven research assistants progresses to a principal investigator post. Melanie Newman reports. More career support is needed for the "embittered lost tribe" of postdoctoral researchers...
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Flexible working strike call
The University and College Union at Southampton University is holding a consultative ballot of its members on possible industrial action over workloads, writes Melanie Newman. The union will ask...
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Critical value judgements
From: The Vice-Chancellor Dear Doctor Noakes, You will remember that I wrote to you last year pointing out that you had made a number of remarks in your first-year lectures which suggested that you...
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Leader: We must guard the right to say the unthinkable
Two recent events on either side of the Atlantic have done little to iterate academe's commitment to free speech. Earlier this month, the University of California withdrew an invitation to former...
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'So what is the bias in the system? It is simple. It is
John Denham is a highly intelligent and very decent man. He was one of the few ministers to seemingly throw away a ministerial career at the time of the ill-judged attack on Iraq. Nonetheless, his...
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Safeguard final-salary pension 1
Your account of University UK's report on the future of the sector's pension arrangements ("Final-salary pension in peril", October 19) contains some worrying features. Much of UUK's report seems to...
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Funding flaws
Many of my colleagues are passionate about the need to address inequality of access to higher education. At first sight, Bill Rammell ("Why first-time students come first", October 12) makes a...
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Not all men are evil 1
Joanna Bourke ("Men, too, must work to take back the night") seems to be unfamiliar with the words "alleged" and "not guilty". I look on in dismay at the sight of what seems to be an otherwise...
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Degrees of fashion 1
There is a simpler solution than the Burgess report to the problems of a degree classification that is "not fit for purpose", and the associated issue of grade inflation: bring back sit-down closed...