It's just not cricket
Talking of anarchy, John Hood, the beleaguered vice-chancellor of Oxford University who recently lost his struggle to revamp the way the university is governed, still sees himself as a fitting...
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No truffling collaboration
To illustrate her new book on communication skills for medical students, Cathy Jackson of Dundee University turned to her colleague, Geoff Gadd, who is a cartoonist in his spare time. Neatly bringing...
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Caliphate: a fantasy worth dying for?
Calls to revive a 'golden age' under a Muslim head of state are part of a dangerous distortion of Islamic history, Robert Irwin argues. Although Edward Said was famous for his angry polemic...
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UK must get with the systems to stay in front
A merger of biology and engineering could help to realise the promise of the Human Genome Project, writes Denis Noble. When the medical and engineering sciences come together to consider the future...
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New role model: a fogey in tweed
Maria Misra thought herself the perfect candidate to be a mentor until she learnt that it could end up as merely a cloning exercise. Another string has recently been added to my flimsy academic bow;...
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Add a little of the personal touch
There is more to being a tutor than giving out the odd glass of sherry at the end of term, says Harriet Swain. The diverse cultural and religious backgrounds of today's students means they need real...
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Many friends but too much ironing
Name : Carolyn Roberts. Age: 52 outside, 23 inside. Job: Associate dean, faculty of education, humanities and sciences at Gloucestershire University, and co-director of our centre for excellence in...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. My university has three dates on which academic staff may resign: January 1, May 1 and...
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£1.5m bid to build on research success
Two London universities are launching major recruitment drives and are looking to appoint more than 40 academic staff. In this week's Times Higher , Royal Holloway, University of London, is...
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Who got that job?
Michael Willis, chemistry lecturer, Chemical Research Laboratory, department of chemistry, Oxford University. Job advertised in The Times Higher , June 16, 2006 After two weeks of unpacking and...
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Flexible working is good for morale and business
Employers hear that less stressed staff are more committed and more productive in their jobs. Tony Tysome reports Universities are being encouraged to introduce flexible working arrangements for...
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Today's news
Minister urges universities to woo part-time students The Government has appealed to universities to make a culture shift and embrace more courses led and funded by employers. Changes to the...
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Laurie Taylor Column
My first duty today is to thank our Director of Corporate Affairs, Mr Jamie Targett, for his admirable presentation of this university's new organisational plan. As Jamie argued so lucidly, it is...
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An institute designed to promote a particular president's policies is not an academic institution
Presidential libraries are spreading like pustules across the US. "Library" is a misleading name for these curious institutions. On the one hand, they are publicly maintained and regulated archives...
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Leader: Excluding the many for the sake of the few
The research assessment exercise is a competition in which Britain's cleverest people fight for hundreds of millions of pounds of public money. So it is bound to be an unsettling experience for many...