Brussels, 10 Nov 2005 The second European workshop on the integration of knowledge, semantic and digital media technologies will take place in London, UK, from 30 November to1 December. This workshop...
Terror Bill fears hit university University chiefs fear thousands of books will have to be stripped from library shelves under the controversial new Terrorism bill. Academics say thousands of texts...
City University employs "room police" to detect academics who fail to make full use of booked rooms - The Times Higher November 4 From: Maureen To: All Members of Department As you may know, this...
At last, we begin to move from the realms of speculation about the impact of top-up fees to some hard facts. It would be dangerous to draw too many conclusions from today's applications statistics -...
The Times Higher 's world university rankings were not designed as a stick with which to beat recalcitrant governments. But, with hindsight, it may have been inevitable that they would be used as...
I think there are interesting parallels between Dennis Hayes's debate and the lessons in the article "Attention! Top brass agree new manoeuvre", (November 4). Although it is important to challenge...
Having spent the best part of Friday afternoon documenting the full extent of internet plagiarism in a student's work for a disciplinary committee, I was dismayed to read that William Leahy believes...
William Leahy argues that it is unrealistic to expect undergraduates to produce original work. I have always understood that it is only PhD students who are expected to be original. What we do expect...
If we, as William Leahy seems to suggest, think of argumentation as a skill too "academic" for mere undergraduates, who presumably need only to shuffle papers in some tedious future office career,...
The article on changing attitudes in Army training from "how do I ensure no one gets through who doesn't deserve it?" to "how do I get as many people as possible up to standard?" has resonance for...
The problems of poor recruit retention and bullying in the Army have become apparent only since the 1990s. My first career was in the Army. At one point I served at Blackdown Barracks, now called...
I teach Mark Lilla's The Reckless Mind, the book that Paul Cartledge prefers to my own (The Intellectual) (Books, November 4). Students study it as part of a course called "The feckless mind"....
I was disappointed to see our highly successful staff development festival reported so negatively in last week's Times Higher ("Union accuses v-c of mass bullying", November 4). A team of committed...
I was disturbed by last week's article that reported an accusation of bullying against the vice-chancellor of my univer-sity and cast our staff development festival in a poor light. My experience of...
Your article "Lecturers who failed to fill room fined £500" (November 4) focuses on unused teaching rooms at City University. I have been carrying out space utilisation surveys in higher and further...