We need a change of climate to survive
Humanity can only learn to cope with global warming if we accept that it will take more than the work of scientists to find appropriate solutions, says Mike Hulme Climate change will not be "solved"...
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Smoke, mirrors and Chinese pipe dreams
To Western universities made-in-China degrees look lucrative - but they're fooling themselves, says exile Wei Jingsheng When Western universities promote schemes to run their own branches in China,...
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Coping with the copycat culture
We must redefine the blurred line between computer research and theft of ideas, says Susan Bassnett Plagiarism used to be a word that provoked strong reactions: it was seen as something utterly...
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Hot under collar? head Keep a cool head
Harriet Swain is given some expert advice on how to complain about problems at work. Key to getting the result you crave is keeping your composure even if you are fast approaching boiling point New...
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Long lunch, then back in the saddle
Name: Jenny Swan Age: 37 Job: Office assistant, development and alumni office, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. Salary: About £14,000 Practical training: Information technology courses, mainly in...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. I will be retiring in December 2006 from a new university. I have colleagues in old...
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Who's in who's out?
BRUNEL The Texas Chainsaw Massacre may not be to everyone's taste but it helped turn Xavier Mendik into one of the world's leading academic experts on cult movies. Mr Mendik, course convener for the...
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Bristol leads culture change
Half of research-only staff at Bristol University are now on permanent contracts, putting the university firmly ahead of the rest of the sector in the long-running battle to wipe out casualisation...
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ESA's Integral Observatory identifies supernova rate for Milky Way
ESA's Integral Observatory identifies supernova rate for Milky Way Paris, 05 Jan 2006 Illustrations Using ESA's Integral observatory, an international team of researchers has been able to confirm the...
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Agenda of the Galileo Special Committee - Negotiations with Korea, 12 January
Brussels, 05 Jan 2006 Full text of Document 5/06 [Public Info Net automatically generates links to Council Register documents where an appropriately formatted document number is given. However, the...
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Today's news
Johnson hits the web in search of student guidance Boris Johnson, the recently appointed Shadow Minister for Higher Education, has gingerly dipped his toe into the academic debate with an appeal for...
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Laurie Taylor Column
New Year Message from the Vice-Chancellor Chief Executive Welcome back from the long vacation. I trust your batteries are now fully recharged. But before we embark on the good ship 2006, let's look...
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Leader: 2006 new year evolution: shape up for change
This promises to be a crunch year for UK higher education - or perhaps the first of a series of crunches. Filling places in the new era of top-up fees will head the worry list for many universities...
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Banking on postgrads
There are responsibilities, not just riches, in seeing postgraduates as the best source for future income ("The postgrad cashpot", December 16). Postgraduate students are vital for the research...
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Surplus slips away
"No move on pensions" (December 9), reports that the latest official valuation of Universities Superannuation Scheme showed a surplus of £5 billion. The realistic figure (as reported on the USS...