One small step for mankind...
Forget space travel: the greatest challenge is taking a transatlantic flight with a toddler, Kevin Fong discovers Having completed my time abroad, I feel a sense of achievement. Not because I've been...
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Ethics means a degree of trust
Being an 'ethical lecturer' is about being sensitive to your students' learning and pastoral needs, allowing them to express themselves and setting an example by your behaviour. Harriet Swain reports...
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Peaks and troughs of a Second Life
Name : Maggi Savin-Baden Age : Young enough to have climbed 36 4,000 metre peaks before I had children. Job : Director of the Learning Innovation Group and professor of Higher Education Research,...
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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 line manager of a small team of support staff. Recently, a long-standing member...
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UCU set to fight any pay window
Employers unwilling to discuss rises for 2008-09 as union vows to keep up pressure. Melanie Newman reports. Lecturers' union leaders are refusing to be locked into a pay timetable that would prevent...
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Staff numbers and buildings on the rise at Cardiff
Job opportunities are growing rapidly at Cardiff University following a record-breaking £100 million harvest in research contracts in a single year. The total number of staff at the university has...
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Who got that cash?
While the effects of this month's severe floods are still being felt across Yorkshire, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has awarded researchers at Sheffield University £2.5...
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Healthier options advice
New moves to treat students as customers - Times Higher, 13 July
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Fit for purpose
Wes Streeting is correct in saying that the description of students as customers is not an accurate reflection of their relationships with universities and lecturers - "education is not a commodity...
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Boycott clarification
Your report "No boycott vote till '08" (July 13) was not quite accurate. The University and College Union strategy and finance committee substantially approved a paper detailing plans to implement...
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Strange bedfellows
My parents arrived in this country from southern Ireland in the 1960s, and they later told me of advertisements that read: "No Blacks or Irish need apply." So I was shocked to read the advertisement...
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Low-risk Lancaster
Lancaster University was one of the 46 institutions listed in national newspaper stories that made reference to a historical list of universities being monitored by the Higher Education Funding...
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Are CETLs a waste or a wonder? 1
At last, two articles in The Times Higher that start to critique the sector's misguided and wasteful infatuation with excellence ("Centres of excellence fail to transform teaching" and Alan Skelton's...
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Are CETLs a waste or a wonder? 2
The Times Higher has done academics a disservice by misreporting a study by Pat Young of the University of the West of England. The investigation is not, and was never intended to be, an evaluation...
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Business as usual 1
Bill Rammell, the Higher Education Minister, is reported as saying that financial contributions by employers towards the cost of higher education qualifications will be central to the success of the...