Brave old world
Amid the excitement over the iPhone handset, Dundee University is offering a new perspective on those pre-internet days with a collection of forgotten communication and entertainment media from the...
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One mistake we made earlier
Students at Coventry University had a feeling of deja vu when they discovered that their latest online module test was identical to a "practice" paper that had been posted on Coventry's website. Paul...
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Make all see that deadline matters
Frustrated by slow reviewers, Marc Hauser and Ernst Fehr suggest we get tough on tardiness and reward promptness Every researcher knows the experience: you send a manuscript in for review and it...
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The truth about the Mummy and Daddy factor
Ucas changes will help first-generation scholars, Jocey Quinn writes in our series on new ideas for higher education "Outrageous", "nightmarish" shrieked recent headlines - perhaps cowering at...
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This principle is not negotiable
If monitoring Muslim groups threatens free speech, then surely boycotting Israeli academics does too, says Frank Furedi It is difficult not to feel dispirited about the lack of academic affirmation...
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Lessons in how to get that first
High achievers are made more often than they are born. Harriet Swain investigates ways in which lecturers can both support and stretch their students to enable them to hit the top target Let's face...
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Balancing the stick and the carrot
Name : Sheelagh Hill Job : Head of staff development, Brunel University. Salary : As "academic-related", I am waiting to find out in August. Practical training/education : After qualifying as a...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. 'When my line manager transferred to my department recently, I felt she was directing a...
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'Boycott London Met' call
The University and College Union has called on academics to boycott London Metropolitan University. This follows proposals by London Met to make 60 academics redundant while refusing to recognise the...
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Who got that cash?
Sodomy, syphilis and scatology are the subjects of investigation by a new research network examining obscenity in Renaissance France, thanks to an award of almost £50,000 from the Arts and Humanities...
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National pay agreement is at risk, say employers
Accept single-table pay talks, incoming and former Ucea heads urge academic union. Melanie Newman reports The collapse of national pay bargaining may be imminent, both the outgoing and incoming heads...
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Laurie Taylor column
"Academics could see their departments named and shamed by international students on a new website" - The Times Higher, June 29 University of Poppleton Welcome to the university's new international...
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Leader: How ambitious will Denham's DIUS dare to be?
There cannot be many governments with a dedicated minister responsible for higher education in the Cabinet. And in John Denham - the new Secretary of State for the Department for Innovation...
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UCU: to ballot or not to ballot... 1
Since the University and College Union congress voted to organise a debate on a boycott of Israeli institutions, there have been calls to ballot the membership. Speaking as a supporter of a boycott,...
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UCU: to ballot or not to ballot... 2
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine branch of the University and College Union has conducted a survey of our members on a possible academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions....