Stable mates?
Meanwhile Ms Kelly's last-minute failure to attend a fringe meeting on pupil testing put Barry Sheerman, chair of the Parliamentary Education and Skills Select Committee, in a spot of bother. He'd...
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Follow your star
Any academic knows that timetabling is crucial. It's unfortunate, then, that UUK's conference meeting to discuss the implications of visa charges on international recruitment on Tuesday at a fringe...
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Liberal with good advice
One absentee from the Labour conference was a certain protege of Schools Minister Lord Adonis who, in years gone by when he was an academic, had encouraged a student to apply for a job as an economic...
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Christopher Ricks: 'Judas!' Did they hope he'd hang himself?
"Don't Look Back?" Do Look Back, but Don't Look Only Back. Look up, look up - seek your Maker. Â Martin Scorsese, like Bob Dylan, is one heaven of a maker. Dylan till 1966: this was to be the heart...
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Why I defend the right of Hizb ut-Tahrir to speak at Middlesex University
Last week I was suspended from Middlesex University. I was told I could not enter the premises, nor talk to staff or students at the university. I was escorted off the premises by security. Why?...
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A cabinet reshuffle
As Helen Taylor hands over her files to a new head of school, she reflects on life, death and wedlock It's that time of year when the headships of schools revolve and so, after five years, I am...
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Set workers study targets
UK business and academe must band together to maintain levels of key skills, says Helen Connor If the UK is to be internationally competitive, we have to increase the skills of our existing workforce...
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Examine ideas, not exam skills
Coursework may be the plodder's option, says Maria Misra, but it can also favour originality over the glib elan that exams too often reward A recent study has claimed that plodder students most...
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Ears - they're your best asset
What should you do when students come to you with personal issues? Listen, advise and above all take them seriously, cautions Harriet Swain, but don't try to solve all of their problems A student...
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Fab labs ... when the kit's working
Name : Mark Pfuhl Age : 39 Job : Lecturer/Royal Society research fellow at the department of biochemistry at Leicester University, doing basic research in structural biology with a focus on proteins...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council's David Phillips...
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Pioneers set ethics at heart of courses
Academics at Leeds University are blazing a trail by embedding ethics in all student courses amid a growing national awareness of the need for a more explicit ethical dimension to higher education....
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York leads pack as autumn hunt sets off in force
York University is spearheading an autumn jobs bonanza with a raft of new chairs and readerships across a range of disciplines. The university is offering 20 new posts in this week's Times Higher ....
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Who got that job?
David Clarke Professor of music, International Centre for Music, School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University Advertised in The Times Higher , April 8, 2005 It was an odd moment for David Clarke...
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Major conference on how to put risk capital at the service of European innovation and enterprise
Brussels, 29 Sep 2005 On Wednesday and Thursday next week, the UK Presidency and the European Commission will jointly hold a major conference in London to debate and make recommendations on how risk...