Park omnibus for good in Clapham
As the student body becomes increasingly international, familiarity with UK popular culture cannot be assumed on courses. Curricula must instead become 'internationalised', as Harriet Swain reports....
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Baring all in pursuit of cell cultures
Name : Renata Gomes. Age : 21. Job : Medical and forensic sciences student, Bradford University. Education : I was educated in Portugal and I am now finishing my degree before starting a PhD in...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. 'After working as a lecturer from 1982 to 1996, then taking a few years' leave to...
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Disability 'shirkers' shamed
The Disability Rights Commission has named and shamed higher education institutions that, it said, had "shirked" their responsibilities under equality laws by failing to produce a disability equality...
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Who's in, who's out?
COVENTRY Malcolm McIntosh, director of Coventry University's Applied Research Centre in Human Security, believes the only way to create lasting world peace is to protect people's basic needs and...
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Birmingham review
Radical plans at the university will see 19 schools replaced by five colleges led by mini v-cs, says Tony Tysome. Birmingham University claims to be leading a revolution in the way institutions are...
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Laurie Taylor Column
From: Jamie Targett Subject: Maintaining standards As you will be aware, this university is committed to upholding the highest standards of academic excellence. However, in order that this commitment...
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Leader: Bologna means continental shift in UK thinking
British universities have long taken a simple view of the Bologna Agreement. For once, they think, continental Europe has realised the superiority of the British approach and has changed its ways to...
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Students don't need 24/7 care 1
Come on, lecturers, get a grip! This is maternalism gone mad ("Corporate push spawns 24/7 culture", March 23). Even the most besotted parents don't give 24/7 attention to their newborns. Since our...
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Students don't need 24/7 care 2
Academics complain that they are too available, responding to e-mails and telephone calls any time, any day ("24/7 demand leaves staff besieged", March 23). The true problem is not managers who...
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Students don't need 24/7 care 3
So Andrew Devlin is making his stand for independence by not answering his e-mails on a US trip. That'll show them who's boss, eh? As there are 2 million people in the world without access to fresh...
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A marking mockery 1
I am a third-year student at Bournemouth University who took Paul Buckland's "reconstruction" unit last year and am taking his "archaeology of the medieval church" unit this year ("Marks U-turn is '...
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A marking mockery 2
Bournemouth treads a slippery slope with its rhetoric when it undermines the marking authority of a professor such as Paul Buckland. Its dangerous message is that it is willing to rob its faculty of...
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Boycotters' bias
Two Israelis from Haifa University have been offered posts at British institutions. No whisper of boycott about the appointment of Rafi Almagor, a Zionist taking a politics post at Hull University....
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Reward all research
That 1* activity will not be funded after the 2008 research assessment exercise appears to be accepted as "fact" within much of the sector, probably owing to a perception that the Higher Education...