Don't go soft, tell the truth and shame the devil
Examiners have a duty not to whitewash their reports, argues Bob Brecher As the external examining season gets into full swing, it's worth thinking about how we should meet our intellectual...
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Bring them in on your coat-tails
You can't start too early or do too much to sign up students for your subject. Harriet Swain dons her free lab coat for a tour of the techniques being used to ensure full courses For you, chemistry...
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A campus-wide effort to instil entrepreneurial spirit
Manchester is helping innovative students take their ideas to market, says Robert Phillips Five years ago, 12 centres were set up with government investment to empower students to transfer...
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Teacher audit
* Name : James Elander * Age : 40-something * Job : Principal lecturer, department of psychology, London Metropolitan University. I teach health psychology, research how people with chronic illnesses...
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Cardiff to take part in audit of stress
Government health and safety watchdogs are to carry out a "stress audit" across the higher education sector. The Health and Safety Executive said this week that over the next 18 months it will target...
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Who's in who's out?
Edinburgh Ian Wilmut, head of the Roslin Institute team that created Dolly the sheep, has been appointed to a chair in reproductive science at Edinburgh University. This is one of two new chairs in...
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Dundee leaves brief open to attract top legal thinkers
Dundee University plans to bolster its law department with the appointment of three professorial chairs. In this week's Times Higher , Dundee is advertising to replace an existing professor who is...
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Arts given a research council
Arts and humanities researchers were given their own research council this week, putting the discipline on an equal footing with the sciences. From April 1, the sector will be funded by the Arts and...
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Anglia set to drop 'poly' from title
The Privy Council looks set to be asked to endorse Anglia University as the new name for the last UK institution to include the word "polytechnic" in its title, writes Paul Hill. David Tidmarsh, vice...
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Whodunnit? It was probably this scientist...
Cancer researcher Chris McCabe has just completed his most novel experiment to date. Or more precisely, he has just completed his most experimental novel to date. Dr McCabe is a lecturer in...
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Poor English skills force foreign students to use translators
Overseas students are employing professional translators to help them write essays and dissertations because their English is so poor, The Times Higher has learnt. The problem came to light this week...
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Female scholars' suffering revealed
An unprecedented review of research into women in higher education in the developing world has revealed massive discrimination, including widespread sexual violence and harassment. Louise Morley,...
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Smart weapons
20 Royal Engineers have become the first serving British Army soldiers to graduate with foundation degrees. The troops, members of 42 Regiment, are all geographic technicians and did foundation...
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Abstaining MPs turn against tertiary act
The Government would have to rely on the Speaker's casting vote to get their university reforms onto the statute book if MPs could vote again on the Higher Education Act. A poll of backbenchers by...
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Pundits predict a narrow Labour win
Tony Blair will win the 2005 general election with a majority of 70 to 100 MPs, according to three separate academic forecasts of the likely result on polling day, writes Paul Hill. The forecasts,...