All alone in the crowd
International students may feel isolated when they enrol at a university with an unfamiliar ethos. To combat this, staff and institutions must encourage them to mix with their peers and get involved...
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Worldywise
David Jobbins examines an initiative to encourage undergraduates to consider their disciplines in a global context Just how broad are your students’ horizons? Are they being stretched to take a world...
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Rage against the tedium machine
Courses in teaching can breed boredom, but we must fight ennui lest it affect our students' critical faculties, warns Bob Brecher As we all know, the tradition of university education, at least in...
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Don't leave that head in the bed...
...until you've got the facts. Careers can be ruined by academic rivalry and you could jeopardise yours if you act in haste, says Harriet Swain You've just discovered the names of two people about to...
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Steamed up for day at the coalface
Name: Alex Haslam Age: 42 Job: Professor of social and organisational psychology What is your background? I studied psychology at St Andrews University, spent a year at Emory University, Atlanta, US...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. My university is seeking to shift contract research staff to open-ended contracts (to...
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Weighting game has gone sour for unions
Leaders of six campus trade unions have accused employers of planning to scrap the London weighting pay allowance, and are threatening a shut-down of the capital's universities in protest. In a joint...
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Local disputes escalate as relations deteriorate
Lecturers' unions this week reported "unprecedented" developments in two local disputes. Natfhe this week confirmed plans for a week-long strike at London Metropolitan University - the longest ever...
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Who's in who's out?
Portsmouth After 25 years at Strathclyde University, Colin Wheeler has taken a chair in marketing at Portsmouth University with a brief to expand research capacity. Professor Wheeler's particular...
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Mugabe plans to detain key talent
The Zimbabwean Government is considering conscripting graduates into the civil service to stem a brain drain that has stripped the country of skills since political instability and economic collapse...
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EU aid under scrutiny
Neelie Kroes, the European Union's Competition Commissioner, has signalled a possible tightening of state aid rules on commercially oriented research to encourage governments to spend more on basic...
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Court defies PM over headscarfs
The head of Turkey's Constitutional Court has dashed the hopes of thousands of Muslims that the ban on headscarves in universities will be lifted. In a high-profile speech before Recep Erdogan, the...
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Forget fruit flies. Stroll to success with turtles
UK higher education will improve only if the Government adopts a long-term evolutionary view, says David Watson Elections are times for looking backward as well as for looking forwards, not least for...
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Alison Wolf
While exams are intended to bring out the best in students, perhaps they also bring out the worst in audit culture The election campaign was generally seen as dull, with few voters really engaged....
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Rebel without a pause
Labour rebel Ian Gibson was openly worried about his Norwich seat in the run-up to the election. In the event, he suffered a smaller swing than the other Labour MP for Norwich, Charles Clarke, the...