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In March, The Times Higher helpfully highlighted the "clerical errors" that had led Sheffield University to refer inadvertently to three staff in the School of Health and Related Research as "Dr"...
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Leader in his field
The educational background of Alex Fergusson, the Scottish Parliament's new Presiding Officer, has been much in the news because he is an Old Etonian. But the Scottish Agricultural College has now...
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Boycott subverts scholarly goals
Ill-conceived action against Israeli academics will harm colleagues, entrench hardliners and damage UK academe, says Robert May. Once again, a handful of UK academics are giving us all a bad name....
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Inquiring minds need more than just teaching
Undergraduate research can transform the sector, Alan Jenkins says in our series on new ideas for higher education. "The scheme has given me an amazing opportunity to get inside researching," one...
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Nul points for our global tune
Culturaldifferences affect learning and teaching, but UKuniversities plod along without taking this into account, says Susan Bassnett. In the days after the abysmal British performance at the...
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Pick a number... any number
Well, no, actually that won't do. Practical assessment of skills requires scrupulous fairness and clarity. Not only that, says Harriet Swain, students must be able to learn from the exercise, even...
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Accentuate the positives and keep trying to improve
Name : Jenni Grundy Age : 38 Job : Associate director ofstudent affairs, Anglia Ruskin University, managing student support services, student feedback (including module evaluation and the Anglia...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. 'Are there guidelines on what exactly constitutes an academic's duties? Does attending...
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Who got that cash?
Scientists have been awarded a €10 million (£6.8 million) grant to investigate the brain mechanisms behind addiction. The four-year project, funded by the European Commission, will involve 2,000...
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Warning of legal action as levels of staff stress spiral
Occupational health adviser issues frank letter to Leeds Metropolitan over the psychological wellbeing of its academic workforce. Melanie Newman reports. Staff stress has become such a problem at...
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Laurie Taylor Column
"Universities are ranked according to their environmental performance in a new 'green' league table" - Times Higher , June 8 University of Poppleton From: The Chief Environmental Officer (formerly...
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Leader: Cosmopolitan campuses
UK academe must rank as one of the most international sectors of the country's economy. According to the latest figures, a fifth of all academics originate from overseas. In some subjects, namely...
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Leader: A collegial choice
What would be the attributes of your dream vice-chancellor? Someone with the backbone to stand up to the bureaucratic demands of the Quality Assurance Agency? One with the chutzpah to throw off the...
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Unite against the bean-counters 1
So research is being wrecked by "bean-counters", as your front page had it (June 1). Isn't it about time that public-service employees started to fight back against the absurd notion that the so-...
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Unite against the bean-counters 2
I was very interested to read the criticisms of the research assessment exercise and especially the point that a Nobel prizewinner would not have met most of Imperial College London's performance...