Frozen out by laptop
It's a ghastly moment when your computer freezes. But spare a thought for Gavin Renwick, Dundee University's new professor of art and policy, who had to give a public presentation of his work last...
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Educational use of discretion
A far ghastlier incident was British historian and cherished Times Higher columnist Felipe Fernández-Armesto's run-in with the US police last week. He was pinned to the pavement by five police...
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Dragons feel the flames
The Royal Society of Edinburgh, which offers enterprise fellowships to researchers keen to commercialise their work, has turned the idea of the BBC's Dragons' Den programme on its head. It exposed a...
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A date with dyscalculia
Bill Rammell, the Higher Education Minister, was incandescent. A piece in the Education Guardian by Roger Kline, the University and College Union equality chief, on government plans to cut funding...
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Cheers! Here's to changing the world
Georgi Derluguian salutes the social scientists rediscovering the spirit of intellectual revolution and attacking frontiers of knowledge. This toast is to the revolution in social science. May it...
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Reaching for stars won't get rid of rats at home
Manned space exploration is a fantasy exploited by politicians that diverts cash from real science, claims Gerard DeGroot. A few years ago, shortly after the Columbia shuttle disaster, I visited the...
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Score an own goal to rise up the table
League tables work in sport, but in higher education they devalue what they aim to measure, argues Frank Furedi. League tables in football provide a clear indication of which team is most successful...
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Click here for a test of flexibility
Traditional exams may no longer be the best way to establish what a student has learnt. Online assessment not only evaluates what students know, it can develop their understanding, says Harriet Swain...
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A great place to escape to eat cake
Name : Jill Raggett. Age : Old enough to know better. J ob : Reader in gardens and designed landscapes at Writtle College in Essex. I teach students on undergraduate programmes in horticulture and...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. The head of my research team was poached early last year by a rival university. He is...
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RAE fuels trend for research only time
Upwardly mobile institutions increasingly offer posts with reduced teaching loads. Olga Wojtas reports The looming 2008 research assessment exercise is galvanising universities into offering new...
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Who's in, Who's out?
Northampton. Chris Moore, the new dean of social sciences at Northampton University, wants to give more back to the region. Professor Moore, a former social worker who joins from Sheffield Hallam...
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Queen's sets out lofty ambitions with 23 posts
Queen's University Belfast, the newest member of the Russell Group of research-led universities, announced 23 new academic posts in a broad range of subjects this week. The university wants to...
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Today's news
Fees cause fall in university applications The number of university applications dropped by almost 16,000 this year following the introduction of £3,000-a-year tuition fees. Student leaders said the...
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Laurie Taylor Column
Regulations that came into force last October mean that academics can now apply to work beyond the age of 65. Would you choose to work on after the normal retirement age? The Times Higher interviewed...