Scots are a brainy lot
Young Scots are more likely to reach university than their English counterparts, a study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council revealed this week. The project, led by Linda Croxford and...
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Clarification
In our article “US treads wary path on Israel” (June 1), we re­ported that Ed Beck, president of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, said that his organisation had clout with the Israeli...
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Degrees of success
Students see university as a passport to a good job and are ­well aware that higher education is an investment in their careers, according to new research. Kate Purcell and Peter Elias of...
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Regional approach seeks to enhance links with
Hundreds of academics from 17 universities in the Midlands and the North of England are to be involved in new collaborations between higher education and industry. The architects and champions of the...
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"Your attitude to your future says more about you than anything else."
John Copelton, 61, is looking forward to a long and healthy retirement, but it will not be spent putting his feet up. Dr Copelton, a senior careers adviser at Queen’s University Belfast and a leading...
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On the move
The University of the West of England has appointed Ian Apperley, formerly adviser to Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, and the London Assembly, as its new human resources director. Ka Ho Mok,...
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News in brief
Ucea appointments Bill Wakeham, vice-chancellor of Southampton University, will take over as chair of the University and Colleges Employers Association in September. He succeeds Alasdair Smith, out...
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Profile: Celia Brackenridge
When Celia Brackenridge decided in the sixth form to go to PE college rather than university, she was summoned to see her aghast headmistress. She had taken A levels in music, biology and geography,...
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Laurie Taylor Column
The University of Poppleton From: The Vice-Chancellor and President To: All Academic and Related Staff Subject: Birmingham As you may be aware from newspaper reports, the Uni­ver­sity...
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto
As I now spend most of my time in the US, and see Britain only intermittently, I can monitor changes in British society with judgment unstaled by custom. It is like being a chronic Rip van Winkle,...
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Leader: We must forge business links
All academics know that the way to the top is to publish highly cited papers in the most prestigious journals. In some subjects, such as history, a brilliant book might do instead. And in some newer...
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Leader: Rank and defile?
Have league tables so corroded the university system that their value no longer compensates for their malign influence? That is the view taken by some institutions in the US — which have decided to...
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Islamic studies need thought
All of us who teach Islamic studies in British universities will welcome the promised injection of £1 million and the subject’s designation as one of “strategic importance” (“‘Gaps’ in Islam studies...
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Boycott fallout 1
The obituary of Baruch Kimmerling has just appeared in The Times . No one was a greater critic of the Israeli governmental policy toward the Palestinians, yet by some twist of logic the boycott...
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Boycott fallout 2
Andrew Morgan charges the Provisional Congress Business Committee (PCBC) with “incompetence” and “gross manipulation” of the agenda of the inaugural University and College Union congress (Letters,...