Pass for soldiers
An Israeli higher-education college will offer students called up for the war in Lebanon a pass grade to compensate them for the classes they have missed. The Technion Institute of Technology in...
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Market forces will spell the end of invincibility
It is only a matter of time before a British university goes to the wall, predicts Terence Kealey The introduction of significant top-up fees marks the emergence of a market in British higher...
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It's only rock'n'roll...
Forget top-up fees. Over dinner at the Universities UK conference last week some university heads were preoccupied with a more weighty issue - the scrabble for the mantle of coolest vice-chancellor....
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Ties that bind
Meanwhile, Boris Johnson, the generally unkempt Shadow Higher Education Minister, and Drummond Bone, UUK president, had decided to dress the same. Both were proudly sporting the Liverpool City of...
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RAEson to be fearful
UUK had clearly ruffled feathers by appointing Eric Thomas,Jone of the most booming opponents of the research assessment exercise, to the chair of its research strategy group. Although Professor...
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Running commentary
Higher Education Minister Bill Rammell was seen to crumple up his speech during dinner, no doubt alarming advisers. But when he stood up he was right on message - UUK's message, that is. He told vice...
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Gary Day: Indiana Jones and phoney pharaohs whip up cash
AN EGYPTIAN FANTASIA Fundraising event to rehouse University College London's Petrie Museum of Egyptology, September 16 We live in hard times. Is there no institution that doesn't have to think about...
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Churchill, Kennedy, Carter, now Blair?
Glen Rangwala, James Panton and Paul Whiteley consider the wisdom of the supposedly mooted Tony Blair School of Government GLEN RANGWALA is a lecturer in politics at Cambridge University What...
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Long and tortuous goodbye to Stud Muffin No 1
Cats and Rentokil have it easy. Biomedical researchers, however, suffer greatly when they have to kill mice in the lab As a biomedical researcher I am afflicted with a serious problem. It's a...
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Should we give peas a chance?
Is the Oxbridge interview the new weapon in the War against Terror,ponders Maria Misra The revelation that one of the recent plane bomb suspects had been head of the Islamic Society at London...
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Your big chance to tame the lion
The dreaded moment has arrived - your new boss's first day. Will he or she be a dragon? How will your job change? Harriet Swain outlines how to make a favourable impression and avoid getting burnt...
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I don't wave, I just go with the flow
Name : Andrew Folkard Age : 39 Job : Lecturer in physical geography at Lancaster University. Background : I studied for a degree in astrophysics at Edinburgh University, then for an MSc in remote...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. I am head of a very busy department and I recently lost my wife to cancer. She died...
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Venture to inspire our future leaders
A course on entrepreneurial skills could help ambitious academics climb the career ladder, says Tony Tysome Academics who join a new training programme designed to make them think like entrepreneurs...
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Who got that job?
Daria Martin Lecturer in fine art, the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University Advertised: The Times Higher , December 9, 2005 Daria Martin is part of a new wave of artists to join...