Get on the insight track
Clarity and independence of thought is a form of literacy too often neglected, argues Brian Greetham. To save students from glib complacency and muddled thinking, we must fill them with passion for...
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Cosine of the times
Today's students need to be made to feel confident in using mathematics and making sense of it in the context of their subject, says Claire Morris Aquick web search revealed that courses in ecology,...
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Pain & gain
Academic life might not be as idyllic as it once was, but it still has its rewards. Wyn Grant offers advice to young scholars Why should anyone want to become an academic? It is certainly not an...
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How to hit the right buttons
E-learning is a dynamic mixture of different methods, approaches and technologies. Many young learners are conversant with communication technologies and expect to find them used in their studies,...
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Consider the ins and outs
Building study skills both within subject teaching and in separate units allows all types of students to benefit, argues Gina Wisker There is a continuing discussion about the appropriate...
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Attention, s'il vous plaît
Lecturers are responding creatively to the challenge posed by language students who are more diverse than ever, says Michael Kelly Le changement dans le calme? I don't think so, not in languages....
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Points for debate
Argumentation skills are underdeveloped in undergraduates, write Beng Huat See, Carole Torgerson and Richard Andrews, who suggest some ways ahead The making and presenting of academic arguments has...
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Learning skills in HE index
 Learning skills in HE Published in The Times Higher on June 1 2007  Leader  'By failing to guide them in their learning, universities turn literate school-leavers into illiterate graduates' All...
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Arts: 'I expected more tuition'
Arts: 'I expected more tuition' I've been at university since the end of September. This basically means that if I had any ideas on what I was expecting from my course, I have long since forgotten...
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Research wrecked by 'bean counters'
Outraged scholar's analysis reveals that even a Nobel winner would fail on new 'productivity targets', reports Phil Baty Academics' careers are being wrecked by crude performance targets, it was...
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Legal star will 'ruin' supporters of boycott
Alan Dershowitz, one of America's leading lawyers, has promised he will personally visit legal and financial ruin on any UK academic supporting a boycott of Israeli academe. The Felix Frankfurter...
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'I completed my PHD on Friday and on Monday I was in Wormwood Scrubs'
A prison governor-turned-academic looks forward to his new role as chair of an inquiry into the penal system. David Wilson, professor of criminology at the University of Central England in Birmingham...
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On the move...
* Alistair Alcock has been appointed professor and founding dean of Salford University's law school, which opens in September. He was formerly deputy vice-chancellor of Buckingham University. * Gill...
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Young put off cancer study
Lack of long-term funding deters new scientists from careers in UK cancer research. Rebecca Attwood reports. Too many young scientists in the UK are asking why anyone would choose a career in...
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Much-deserved fillip for veterans and pioneers
Lisa Jardine has lost count of the number of times people asked her if winning The Times Higher Lifetime Achievement Award meant she was about to retire. "There were a number of occasions after I...