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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Brussels, 13 Oct 2005 MEPs approved a legislative report aiming to guarantee the quality of higher education in the EU and encouraging the mutual recognition of national evaluation systems. The issue...
Brussels, 13 Oct 2005 The final conference of the research project 'Formal and informal work in Europe: A comparative analysis of their changing relationship and their impact on social integration' (...
Brussels, 13 Oct 2005 A workshop on micro and nano engineering: technology and applications will take place in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 25 to 26 November. Organised by the EU funded FP6 4M Network of...