Is it thesis envy, or a worse problem?
With academic mental health at an all-time low, Adrian Furnham sets out a rough diagnostic guide to common campus ailments Academic life is still portrayed as civilised, gentle and privileged in much...
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Leave the drugs war to cartoons and cops
Schools are failing to change pupils' attitudes to narcotics and should instead focus on education, claims Richard Ives The bold, optimistic claims made for drug education are not confirmed by...
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A highlight but never a headline
The privileges of working in higher education, such as developing intellectual bonds, are often overlooked, claims Susan Bassnett Anyone not familiar with the education press could be forgiven for...
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To speak volumes don't deliver them
Striking the balance between offering a complete annotated script of your lecture and making students take reams of notes is essential if you are to make handouts work for you, says Harriet Swain Six...
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Dealing with those difficult dons
Name: Becka Currant Age: 33 Job: Head of the Learner Development Unit, Bradford Univer-sity, which provides centralised skills support to students and staff. Salary: £38,019 Background/ education: I...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. 'The balance of women on our senior governing committee is persistently low. How could...
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Who got that job?
Arianna Giovannini, Institute for Northern Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University Advertised in The Times Higher , June 21, 2006 It is a question that has no doubt puzzled many southerners over the...
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Warwick cuts 40 jobs as external funding runs dry
'Permanent' staff claim they are treated like contract employees as academy faces closure. Tony Tysome reports The imminent closure of the high-profile National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth...
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Laurie Taylor Column
" The number of professors has increased by 63 per cent in the past decade ", The Times Higher, April Ah, Lapping, there you are. Professor Lapping, I should say. Yes, indeed, vice-chancellor....
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Alan Ryan
There was a nice conjunction of stories last week. First, The Times Higher revealed that increasing numbers of institutions want to make their staff take psychometric tests to see if they have the...
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Leader: New universities deserve more investment
In most big cities in the UK it is easy to tell the new university from the old one. Just look for concrete instead of sandstone as you approach. But we show this week that exactly 15 years after the...
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Research remains in our remit
How could your leader of April have got it so wrong? It stated that Bournemouth University was "positioning itself as a teaching-only institution where scholarship and research take a distant second...
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Respect admin staff 1
I feel sorry for the reader who wrote in response to the report "staff 'swotted' by managers" and Frank Furedi's column (Letters, April 20). He must have been very unlucky in his experience of...
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Respect admin staff 2
Your unnamed contributor's assertion that "even the best university administrators are at best only fourth-raters" raised eyebrows here at the Association of University Administrators and kick-...
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Respect admin staff 3
I was staggered by your anonymous letter-writer's insensitive and inaccurate depiction of university administrative staff as "fourth-raters" to whom we ought to "stop being deferential". Without...