A Higher level of romance
Anyone who doubts the ability of the average academic in the wooing stakes will be heartened to hear about the plotting of one romantic professor. The man, we'll call him Don Juan, had to organise a...
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Unanimous satisfaction
Universities that did not get glowing reports from the National Student Satisfaction Survey have seized every opportunity to denounce the exercise as pointless and flawed. Now they have some pleasing...
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Spirit of '68 alive in university perspectives
Forget May '68 - Paris was a picnic compared with campus carnage in the Eternal City. For confirmation, spend two hours on the south coast watching digitised film footage of Italian riot police...
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Why I think bullying in university departments is on the increase
The articles and letters on bullying published recently in The Times Higher have made me contemplate my experiences as head of department. It was nearly 30 years ago and there were only six of us in...
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Using all our heads
Brain science is benefiting from the people power of EU citizens' panels, enthuses Sharron Dickson When a letter arrived from the Science Museum's Dana Centre asking me if I was interested in...
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Of mice and mental menace
Jamie Clarke teaches a Mickey Mouse course that challenges lazy thinking One bugbear that surfaces regularly in debates about the value of tertiary education is the question of so-called Mickey Mouse...
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Tutorials, £30 an hour. Buy now!
Good tutor-student interaction is priceless, says Tim Birkhead. So where can you get some for your kids? I have a scheme to boost academics' salaries. It's an idea that embraces recent changes in...
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Float an idea and get them to bite
You think you've written the perfect journal article but editors won't take the bait. That may be because there's more to reeling in interest than hurriedly scribbling down your musings, says Harriet...
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Passing on the entomology bug
Name: Peter Smithers Age: 57 Job: Terrestrial ecology technician and entomologist at the School of Biological Sciences, Plymouth University. I support academic teaching and research in the field of...
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Ask the panel
I have a question about my conditions of employment as a postdoc on a Natural Environment Research Council project. Is it usual practice to issue contracts on a yearly basis for projects funded for...
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Who got that cash?
Astronomers at Kent and Hertfordshire universities are over the moon at winning a grant that will allow them to map large regions of the sky up to a thousand times faster than current technology...
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White staff are more likely to scoop PRP
White academics are up to eight times more likely than their non-white colleagues to receive discretionary performance-related pay rises, according to research. An Association of University Teachers...
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Discretionary pay discrepancy: racism or a reluctance to apply?
The fact that ethnic minority staff are eight times less likely to receive discretionary pay compared with their white colleagues at Newcastle University is not necessarily a sign of racial...
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Medics oppose research plan
Top medical academics are privately battling to dismantle a government strategy for health research, which they fear will pit universities against each other and drive some medical schools out of the...
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OECD Announces Workshop to Address Policy Challenges from the Use of Pharmacogenomics (links)
Paris, 13 Oct 2005 The OECD Working Party on Biotechnology announced it will review what could best be done to advance the efficiency, utility and use of genomic knowledge for the delivery of safer...