Letting learners mark the teachers
Olga Wojtas reports on Scotland's trailblazing quality-assurance system It is a concept that might send a chill down the spines of some lecturers: the student quality inspector. But this, in the land...
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What to do when it's the lecturer who's missing classes
"How would you deal with a lecturer who keeps missing classes and does not seem to know much about his subject?" the student representatives at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen were asked. Tackle...
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V-cs fight to keep autonomy
More than 70,000 foreign students are enrolled in offshore programmes run by ߣߣÊÓƵn universities, but vice-chancellors are resisting federal government demands for tighter control of their...
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Nigeria gets tough on overseas providers
Nigeria's National University Commission has declared all foreign university satellite campuses illegal pending approval of guidelines governing their operation. The guidelines will require the...
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...I'm too busy multitasking
A red-faced Maria Misrajust can't seem to finish her new book. And after racking her brain for a reason, she concludes... Earlier this month, the Sam Johnson prize for non-fiction, for which I was a...
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Develop a career - not a clone
As a mentor, don't look for adoration or for someone to follow in your footsteps, says Harriet Swain. You need to guide, support and listen to your student to help them find their own way in academe...
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Distance tutor in a close-knit team
Name: Pat Beaton. Age: 52. Job: Tutor on the distance-learning course in the department of volun-tary sector studies at the University of Wales Lampeter, teaching interpersonal skills for volunteers...
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Ask The panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. I am a black lecturer in an old university. I feel that my line manager treats me...
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Who got that job?
Thomas Kirchmaier, lecturer in strategy, Manchester Business School. Advertised in The Times Higher , January 14, 2005 Thomas Kirchmaier took up his post at Manchester Business School after a two-...
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Duo win plaudits in race policy review
Two universities are among the top ten most improved public institutions for race equality and ethnic diversity in a UK-wide equal opportunities benchmarking exercise. Teesside University ranked...
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'Open doors to local communities' but 'don't rest on your laurels'
Jane Usherwood, personnel director at Birmingham University, said the university was "chuffed" to have been rated so highly in its first year of membership of Race for Opportunity. "We just wanted to...
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European Commission opens state of the art Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Test Facilities
Brussels, 7 July 2005 European Commissioner for Science and Research, Janez Potočnik today opens new hydrogen and fuel cell testing facilities at the Commission’s Institute for...
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Astronomy projects help Europe look to the future
Brussels, 7 July 2005 One of the world’s most advanced astronomy installations, the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe in Dwingeloo, Netherlands, today hosts an information day on the...
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Astronomy looks into the Future – the role of European Infrastructures
Brussels, 7 July 2005 Star Dust: placing Astronomy into human context Astronomy is one of the most ancient sciences that humanity has ever pursued. Since the dawn of civilisation, mankind has gazed...
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Commission aid advances in astronomy
Brussels, 07 Jul 2005 During his visit to the JIVE Astronomical Research Establishment, Dwingeloo (NL) today, European Commisioner for Research Janez Potočnik took part in a ceremony to move...