We're a Triumph
If we are to hold our own in the 21st century, we should take a lesson from Google and YouTube, argues Stephen Heppell The UK has a knack of losing wonderful assets. No sooner do we have something...
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Answers to planet's ills are out of this world
As Earth struggles with climate change and overcrowding, Charles Cockell recommends we look to the final frontier The ongoing exploits of two tiny rovers on the surface of Mars seem like an...
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Just can't tune out Irritate FM
The train doesn't always take the strain, finds Kevin Fong, after enduring an ear-splitting mobile conversation all the way home I'm on the train, on the way back from Liverpool. I got to the station...
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Don't let a bald pate throw you
Harriet Swain says employers must tread carefully as the new discrimination regulations kick in, especially when it comes to making assumptions about people's age based solely on what they look like...
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Flee the hutch to find fruits of forest
Name : David Morley Age : 42 Jobs: Poet, associate professor and director of the Warwick University Writing Programme. Salary : Poetry is the opposite of money. Education/ background : I was a...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. My team is responsible for student finance and I have received conflicting advice about...
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Staff are afraid to declare disability
Universities are unable to adhere to the law as academics are not reporting conditions, Tony Tysome writes Academics are afraid to declare disabilities or impairments because they believe that it...
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Young Scots get opportunity to work with top researchers
New researchers in Scotland are enjoying growing opportunities to establish their careers in a "transformed" research landscape, according to Roger McClure, chief executive of the Scottish Funding...
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Who got that cash?
To win a Wellcome Trust fellowship is rare, but to win three in a row is exceptional. Andrew Tobin , professor of cell physiology and pharmacology at Leicester University, has just received his third...
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Today's news
Cambridge don cleared of 'Benny Hill' sex assault A university academic accused of making "pervy, Benny Hill noises'' as he groped a former student's bottom was cleared yesterday of sexual assault....
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Laurie Taylor Column
INSIDE TRACK An occasional column to keep you abreast of who's on the move in your academic field DEEP BLUES Poppleton University suffered a major blow last month when all 13 members of its scuba...
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Alan Ryan
To begin with an obvious but improper question: was Oxford's rejection of the changes in governance proposed by the vice-chancellor a vote of no confidence? Not exactly. It was a vote of no...
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Leader: Pricey UK must not rest on laurels
For all the official warnings against overreliance on the fees of overseas students, there has been a comfortable assumption in much of UK higher education that a combination of the English language...
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Leader: Make most of Leitch
Ever since Lord Leitch published his interim review of skills needs, the prospect of a participation rate of 65 per cent for degree-level courses has had many universities rubbing their hands in...
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Oxford postal ballot
Plans to reform the way Oxford University is run will go to a postal ballot of the entire academic community of almost 4,000 scholars in a final attempt to push the reforms through. The reforms, put...