First Impressions
This week's competition to identify a book from its first sentence is from a travel account by a radical journalist and politician: "This morning I set off, in rather a drizzling rain, from...
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Private sector muscles in
Private-sector companies are queueing up to get UK degree-awarding powers, raising the prospect of cut-throat competition that could threaten university courses and jobs. Three providers, including...
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Stem-cell capitalists unnerve scientists
Venture capitalist Sir Chris Evans this week slammed "defensive nay-sayers" in the scientific community as fears grew that his new stem-cell research foundation could put patients at risk by rushing...
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'Issues are the same whether dealing with three-year-olds or 33-year-olds'
Caroline Gipps will bring an eclectic range of experience to the role of vice-chancellor of Wolverhampton Caroline Gipps says she never aspired to a role in university management. "I thought...
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On the move ...
* Bhupinder Sandu , consultant paediatrician and gastroenterologist, has been elected president of the Medical Women's Federation. She is a founding member and past secretary of the British Society...
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Safety row after knife attacks
Unions have attacked Greenwich University for pushing ahead with plans to cut campus security staff despite two robberies by knife-wielding intruders in recent weeks. The university this week...
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Project lifts the hood on male dropouts
The stereotyping of white working-class youths in "hoodies" as feckless thugs creates a self-fulfilling prophecy that means many young men do not enter higher education or, if they do, do not...
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Kent institute sues ex-head for £300K
Kent Institute of Art and Design (Kiad) is pursuing one of its former academics for damages of at least £300,000 after he left to set up a rival architecture school at neighbouring Kent University....
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Next week
High-tech honeytrap How Singapore is systematically luring leading scientists with the promise of freedom, cash and luxury to set up labs in the South-East Asian city-state
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RAE raises UK journal activity
The research assessment exercise has driven up the UK's share of world research citations, a conference on publishing and the RAE sponsored by The Times Higher heard this week. According to higher...
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Home PhDs trumped by overseas maths experts
The UK's research funding regime skews the academic jobs market against British mathematics postgraduates in favour of more experienced researchers from overseas, according to leading mathematicians...
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Funding councils unveil new submissions criteria
The higher education funding councils published detailed guidance this week on what information institutions will need to gather for their submissions to the 2008 research assessment exercise....
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Put lecturers first, academy told
The Higher Education Academy, set up to improve the teaching skills of lecturers, risks ignoring the professional needs of academics as it concentrates on improving the learning experience for...
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Child's play is winning way
Watching the way his stepdaughter learnt as a child helped lecturer Paul Elmer develop the teaching style that this week won him a prestigious National Teaching Fellowship. Mr Elmer, a senior...
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Higher education academy's national teaching fellows 2005
Experienced staff Patrick Bailey , professor of organic chemistry, Manchester University Philip Barker , professor of applied computing, Teesside University Colin Beard , senior lecturer, Sheffield...