So many tongues, so many ways to offend
Talking for Britain - C U Next Tuesday - The Meaning of Tingo and Other Extraordinary Words from around the World
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a Nobel laureate famous for both his fiction and nonfiction: "Sadeq was to go with me from...
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Sleuth who rose up family tree
Genetic Linguistics
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Oy vey! Magical language is losing its learned roots
Words on Fire
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Humbug and rank hypocrisy
Unspeak
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In search of excellent profits, the gurus join the circus
Management Speak
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Oxbridge closes on Harvard in rankings
Cambridge and Oxford have climbed to second and third places in the latest world rankings and have almost closed the gap on Harvard, the world's number one. The 2006 World University Rankings,...
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Workloads 'go through roof'
Unions blame 'bums-on-seats' attitude for student-to-staff ratio shooting up as high as 46:1, writes Tony Tysome The ratio of students to academics at some universities is double the pupil-to-teacher...
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'I want to let children have a voice to understand the impact of ritalin'
Ilina Singh has won a Wellcome Trust award to help her pursue groundbreaking work on hyperactive children A researcher investigating hyperactivity in children has won the Wellcome Trust's first...
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On the move...
* Northampton University has appointed Gordon D'Silva , founder and chief executive officer of Training for Life (a social enterprise charity), visiting professor for social entrepreneurship. He was...
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UCU: We failed our members
Sally Hunt slams Natfhe support in year-long dispute, reports Phil Baty The University and College Union jeopardised its future industrial strength by failing to fully protect rank-and-file members...
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Journals spending soars to £100m, squeezing book budgets
Academics and universities spend nearly £100 million a year subscribing to journals, according to the latest figures reported by the Research Information Network. The report on scholarly journals...
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Revamp dumps old-style teaching
For most academics it is the stuff of fantasy. But the dream has become a reality at Bournemouth University, where, under a radical restructure, lecturers will have their teaching loads reduced...
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Next week
A WORLD OF IMAGINATION How the Imagine Cup is enthusing the next generation of IT graduates PLUS World rankings in science and technology
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Times Higher staffer dies
Ngaio Crequer, who worked for The Times Higher from 1978 to 1986, died suddenly last week. She was a reporter and later news editor of the paper before joining the founding staff of The Independent...