Colin Barker: Pro-Test, anti-complexity
LAURIE PYCROFT: THE MAKING OF A TEENAGE PROTESTER Channel 4 Sixteen-year-old Laurie Pycroft initiated Pro-Test, a movement to defend Oxford University's new animal laboratories against animal-rights...
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The grape escape
Hard times at All Souls: it was bad enough for the Oxford University college having to turn down a bequest rather than move its Christopher Wren sundial, but worse was to come. Someone has been at...
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Mark their words
So much for delays for finalists this year. Peep's understands that students can discover their degree results ahead of time by looking on Birmingham University's intranet. A somewhat fraught e-mail...
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Paris council
Edinburgh University has devised a cunning plan to ensure record attendance at its general council meeting - relocate to Paris. Staff and students will mull over the last meeting's minutes at the...
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Who's in with the in-crowd?
Peep's is appalled to hear that the Minister for Higher Education and the vice-chancellor of Leeds University were forced to jostle among thousands of sweaty students last week. Rather than being...
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Awesome revels in jellyfish and ideas
We ask what inspires you about academe, where some disciplines even get a shot at changing the world, one student at a time "Academic life is very special. There are few careers where your only...
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Confront the colluders in Israel's academy
Israeli scholars have either collaborated in the occupation or turned a blind eye. They deserve a boycott, argues Lisa Taraki Although Menahem Milson's career path and mine have been on a collision...
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I'm a man who just can't say 'no'
The constantly harried Kevin Fong gets to grips with a very modern affliction This week, I started a new job, worked 60 hours in an intensive care unit, chaired a few sessions at a conference on...
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Referee, beware blowing whistle
If you are asked to provide a job reference for a student, make sure your facts are correct, avoid generalisations and discriminatory statements, and mind your p's and q's, as Harriet Swain outlines...
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Atomic collision of work and kids
Name : Linda Amrane-Cooper Age : Almost 42 Job : Head of initial professional studies, a department within the faculty of education at Anglia Ruskin University. We train new teachers and provide...
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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 a senior academic in a new university. I plan to go part time from this September...
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Learn how to be boss
Anthea Lipsett reports on a course to teach leaders of research projects ways to build and manage a team Academics who struggle to run large, complex research projects and lead research teams will be...
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Queen's on quest for recruits
Queen's University Belfast is advertising 45 posts in the first tranche of a £259 million investment in staff, students and facilities. Some £28 million has been earmarked as part of the five-year...
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Who got that CASH?
"If you're going to work full time to support yourself, why not set up your own business rather than cooking burgers at McDonald's?" asks Brian Clements, director of Wolverhampton Business School's...
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Female lecturers more likely to 'freeze'
Female academics are much more likely to freeze or become incoherent when lecturing than their more confident male colleagues, according to research. Women who suffer performance anxiety are not poor...