Growth in Irish intake
More than half of Ireland's 17 to 19-year-olds are enrolling in higher education. The admission rate rose from 44 per cent to 54 per cent during 2003 and is now 2.7 times what it was 25 years ago,...
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There's blood and tears in those exam scripts...
... so never spill more than two food groups on them when marking, says Kevin Fong One day somebody will invent the perfect exam. It will be a big doughnut-shaped thing that fits snugly around...
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Smooth out pressing problems
If you've got too much work to do, don't be distracted by your ironing, but do consider organising your work in the same way - into different piles, advises Harriet Swain You've got two journal...
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Encountering and countering the counterfeiters
Prevention is the key to nipping plagiarism in the bud, as Michael North finds out Student cheats are often easy to spot, says Diane Seymour, a senior lecturer at Oxford Brookes University's Business...
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Teacher audit
* Name: Beverley Milton-Edwards * Age: 39 * Job: Reader, School of Politics and International Studies, Queen's University, Belfast. * Salary: Reader/senior lecturer scale * Qualifications: BA (Hons)...
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Exeter to unveil big jobs push
Exeter University is poised to begin a major recruitment drive to help reposition itself in the higher education market. It is creating 52 posts, 44 of which are academic, after restructuring. Exeter...
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London Met strike planned for QAA visit
London Metropolitan University could be brought to a standstill during its first audit by the quality watchdog as a result of staff strikes and a continuing academic boycott. As the row over the...
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Who got that cash?
King's College London is celebrating a £1 million windfall after floating a spin-off company for the first time. Proximagen, which was set up in 2003, is the brainchild of Peter Jenner , professor of...
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Helping hand if you need it, not a stranglehold
Giving every institution a 'risk profile' enables Hefce to lighten the bureaucratic burden, says David Young. The board of the Higher Education Funding Council for England is committed to reducing...
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Nancy Rothwell
We must stop dwelling on the difficulties and look at the advantages of the X chromosome in academic success Larry Summers has caused quite a stir. The president of Harvard University suggested that...
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Lewis Wolpert welcomes a new brain game
How to get the public involved in thinking carefully about scientific issues is a major unsolved problem. So I was intrigued to have the opportunity to play the New Economics Foundation's Democs ( De...
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Bird-brained response
The cat was put among the pigeons last week when The Times Higher made a request under the Freedom of Information Act to the entire higher education sector. Within minutes of the round robin email,...
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A case of sexing up
Research presented at the British Psychological Society conference last week showed that MPs feel stressed and out of control. Ashley Weinberg also claimed that MPs experience a noticeable decline in...
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Gamekeeper turned poacher
Labour MP Ian Gibson is famous for his talent for attracting media attention. But he is now having a go at journalism himself. He is interviewing Colin Blakemore, chief executive of the Medical...
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Glass ceilings - and walls
Manchester University may score points from the feminist lobby by naming a medical building after its first female medical student, Catherine Chisholm. But visitors will soon realise something is...