Political award
Quentin Skinner, regius professor of modern history at Cambridge University, has been awarded one of the four Balzan Prizes for 2006. The prize was awarded in the category "humanities, moral sciences...
Search
-
-
Prize up for grabs
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Wolfson Microelectronics and the Royal Society of Edinburgh have created an annual $20,000 (Pounds 10,600) international award for a scientist...
-
Correction
Harper Adams University College was omitted from our table of results in the National Student Survey (News, August 25). It achieved an overall satisfaction score of 4.2, placing it fifth in the...
-
RAE countdown 2008
Cara Aitchison is professor of human geography at the University of the West of England, Bristol, specialising in gender and tourism. She is a member of sub-panel 46 of the 2008 research assessment...
-
Arts metrics plan revealed
An RAEalternative for the arts and humanities focuses on a 100-point research scale, writes Anthea Lipsett A radical new system to judge research quality and allocate funding after the 2008 research...
-
'I can't do it for 30 more years'
Three quarters of all academics worry about their work, The Times Higher has found. Tony Tysome reports Nafsika Athanassoulis feels disillusioned about her fledgling career in higher education...
-
Just a glass will get the answers flowing
Charitable giving or self-indulgence? Perhaps unsurprisingly, it was the latter that the majority of university staff plumped for when asked what would motivate them to respond to an online...
-
UCU to back older academics who feel 'superfluous'
A "silent majority" of academics aged 50 and older feel "undervalued and often superfluous", a survey by the University and College Union will reveal next week. Sally Hunt, UCU joint general...
-
Tribunal restricts 'vexatious litigant'
Panel finds that a lecturer who won thousands of pounds alleging bias had no 'worthwhile' evidence, writes Phil Baty A lecturer who has caused "enormous inconvenience, harassment and expense" to...
-
Spa studies graduates in hot demand
In the third of our series on popular courses, Jessica Shepherd unwinds on a trip to Buxton, home to the UK's first spa management degree Not again. The phones don't stop ringing at the school of...
-
A quiet revolution for law and order
In the second of our three-part series on employer-led higher education, Claire Sanders looks at the arrival of police students on campus This summer, The Times Higher carried an unusual job advert....
-
It's students who will do the selecting now, heads are warned
Universities will need to raise standards and become more customer-focused to survive in the new fee-driven culture, marketing and fundraising heads were warned this week. Many institutions are going...
-
College above discount shop dashes hopes
Foreign students at the Maritime Greenwich College have been left disillusioned after discovering that their degrees will not have the accreditation they expected. Phil Baty reports When Lekrajsingh...
-
Ghost professors haunt Peking
Allegations of dishonesty over the positions of star Chinese academics have proved a public relations disaster for Peking University. In early July, Qiu Chengtong , a professor of mathematics at...
-
Ethics row hits research body
Students want Canadian council to review alleged misconduct, writes Philip Fine A Canadian research council is under fire after refusing to investigate a case that appears to have broken copyright...