Sweden faces teaching crisis
Sweden faces a shortage of academics due to the fall in the number of doctoral students, the National Agency for Higher Education has warned. The drop in numbers comes as a direct result of a squeeze...
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This racket demands you surrender your integrity
With academics under impossible pressure to inflate grades, how can 'real scholarship' thrive? asks Kenneth Minogue. The De Montfort University grade-inflation saga is a tremendous morality tale, a...
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Trust me, I'm a doctor. Not
Just when we thought National Health Service cuts could not get any worse, Diary learns that a university medical school has to be listed in The Medical Act 1983 for its graduates to register as...
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A massage from the staff
Spare a thought for the unsung academic heroes of Sunday's London Marathon. Staff from Northampton University's School of Health treated some 200 runners for blisters, sprains and blackened toenails...
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What your right arm's for...
Strathclyde University student union was celebrating this week after it was named the "Best Bar None" by the National Union of Students. The award was the brainchild of those famous carousers Greater...
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Alarm at the role of PR
Thanks goes to the university press officer who accidentally set off her rape alarm at the Higher Education External Relations Association conference last week. The red-faced delegate chose her...
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Thanks, but no thanks
The vice-chancellor of the University of Central Lancashire has been rapped by some of his staff - for thanking them. Malcolm McVicar praised staff for giving up their Saturday on an Open Day only to...
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Chicken tikka for the mind
PHASE - HETAIN PATEL . Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham University. Exhibition until May 20, performance on May 20, between 10am and 8pm. One of the cliches about British culture today is that...
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Thinking is no help in making the grade
The academy's influence on the high school curriculum has been helping to stifle original thought in students, argues Roger Schank. "I am always willing to learn, however I do not always like to be...
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Log on to indulge your fantasy of immortality
Genealogy websites offer few hard facts but plenty to fuel people's dreams of a place in history, writes Matt Houlbrook. Obsession with pornography and genealogy are the two dark desires on which the...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. What are the pros and cons, for pension purposes, of buying back years of service -...
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Great on paper but will it fly?
If you want a paper accepted for a conference, be sure your research is original, intriguing and 'scientifically rigorous'. But don't fret over presentation skills - it's content that counts, writes...
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Rooms and bistros with a view
Name: Shahida Ahmed Age: 34 Job: Finance and welfare rights adviser, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, Liverpool. Background: BSc in physics, PGCE in secondary science. Working hours: 8.45am to...
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The good, the bad and the difference
Much as he'd like to believe that the rash of first-class degrees reflects superb teaching, Tim Birkhead isn't convinced Imagine the scene. Sauntering into your departmental coffee room, you are...
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Third Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP/MOP 3) Serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (13-17 March 2006, Curitiba, Brazil) - Compilation of EU Stateme
Brussels, Apr 2006 Full text of Document 8569/06 Suite of documents 8569/06 Subject: Third meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP/MOP 3) serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena...