Union seeks code to ban short skirts
The Student Union of Bosnia's Tuzla University is campaigning to have miniskirts and low necklines banned from campus. They have appealed to the rector to preserve the dignity of the university by...
The Student Union of Bosnia's Tuzla University is campaigning to have miniskirts and low necklines banned from campus. They have appealed to the rector to preserve the dignity of the university by...
Applicants must say if parents are graduates The sons and daughters of graduates with good jobs face extra hurdles as they compete for university places under rules announced yesterday. From next...

GOLD SPONSOR: THE HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMYThe Higher Education AcademyThe Higher Education Academy’s role is to be a nationwide focus for enhancing teaching, learning and students’ experiences in...
The political philosopher Jacques Rancière would like to encourage the disruption of the normal order that is real democracy. Julian Baggini hears his campaign If you rage against the growth of...
A reader writes: I was recently buttonholed in the rest rooms of the Athenaeum by a woman in dark glasses who said she was being interviewed for a named chair in biochemistry at a "discount-for-cash...
Interdisciplinary working is on the rise, nowhere more than in health-related fields. Stephen Phillips meets a cancer research team, while Angela Shaw (below) shows the pitfalls awaiting new courses...
Plagiarism may seem a modern malaise, but accusations of ‘borrowing’ and outright theft of words and works were a scourge of 19th-century literary culture. Robert Macfarlane surveys opinion on...

Conferences, Issue no. 4 Published in The Times Higher on March 23 2007 Leader 'While e-conferencing may be environmentally friendly, virtual interaction is no substitute for the real thing'...
University is accused of censoring antisemitic Islam lecture The University of Leeds was accused of infringing free speech last night when it cancelled a lecture on “Islamic antisemitism” by a German...
Deadline: 27/04/2007
Research jobs cut 'to meet the cost of government failure' Scientists claim that about 1,000 research jobs will be lost this year because the Government is cutting science funding to compensate for...
Computer curfew for students after spate of campus suicides For more than a decade the seven elite Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have been churning out world-class computer whiz kids for the...
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an autobiographical work: "In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. In the month of...