Do not proceed without a smile
There is a fine art to networking, says Harriet Swain. First present a friendly face, then anticipate questions, make your pitch and follow up. And don't worry about being snubbed - it's a price...
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Passion for page, print and paint
Name: Erik Borg Age: 59 Job: senior lecturer, English language centre, Northumbria University Salary: senior lecturer scale What is your background? Undergraduate education in literature at...
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Ask the panel
My university has announced that our jobs are to be evaluated as part of the new pay framework. The university is using the Higher Education Role Analysis (Hera) scheme, but colleagues at other...
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Research staff hit by shift to teaching
Nottingham Trent University is losing researchers as it pushes ahead with a teaching-dominated strategic plan that has sapped staff confidence, leaders of lecturers' union Natfhe claim. Arts,...
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Critics win vote on 'bullies and creeps' charter
A plan to introduce discretionary pay awards to help recruit international research stars at Cambridge University has been branded a "bullies and creeps charter" by opponents. Critics of the...
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Who got that job?
James Moran Lecturer in drama and performance, School of English Studies, Nottingham University Advertised in The Times Higher , January 14, 2005 After working for nine months at Nottingham on a...
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Today's news
Universities to close the door on 60,000 A desperate scramble to avoid higher tuition fees was blamed last night for a rush by tens of thousands of students to find university places through clearing...
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Laurie Taylor Column
Gordon.lapping@poppleton.ac.uk Out-of-office reply I am afraid that I am currently on holiday and will not be able to reply to your recent e-mail communication until I return to my office on August...
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Leader: Customer care or collegiality?
Even before the advent of top-up fees, consumer culture is changing the relationship between universities and students. Our survey shows a sharp rise in the number of student complaints since 2002-03...
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Leader: Some A-grade carping
The exam boards' humane decision to put back the announcement of A-level results to spare candidates the annual deluge of carping about standards has not prevented the ritual exchanges taking place...
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Staff morale hangs in balance
The National Institute of Economic and Social Research report into recruitment and retention of academic staff in higher education does not, as your headline suggests, recommend the downgrading of...
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Disciplined thinking
David Packham (Letters, August 12) quotes the Dearing report that universities should "sustain a culture that demands disciplined thinking". Part of that discipline should be to curb wilfully literal...
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No mercy for Mao
It is strange that Delia Davin reviewing Mao: The Unknown Story (August 12) should appear not to wish to seem an apologist for Mao, because this is how she comes across in her attack on the authors...
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Tax-free PhD
I read the horrors of Sally Baker's existence as a PhD student with interest (Why I... August 5). She said: ''My friend kept... paying my council tax because my scholarship didn't extend to such...
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Further figures
The report on the Freedom of Information Act deposition from the Higher Education Funding Council for England ("Hefce admits to gaps in its financial oversight regime", August 12) needs clarification...