Making a crisis out of a drama
Natfhe, the lecturers' union, brought out the big guns this week on another pressing higher education issue. Just as Tony Blair once bizarrely championed the campaign for Coronation Street's Deirdre...
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Truly nano approach to science
Predictably, a hefty proportion of delegates at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Washington last week were male and middle-aged and were sporting a glamorous...
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Rebel becomes a cause
Voting against the party line may not seem to be the best way to win friends and influence the Labour leadership, but it does not appear to have harmed top-up fees rebel Ian Gibson. Dr Gibson,...
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Campaigned group
Rumour has it that Save British Science is changing its name to something a little less moany. But will a campaign group called Saved British Science have quite the same impact?
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Ronald Hutton: review
King Arthur has had a good year. With Jerry Bruckheimer's Hollywood blockbuster last summer and this week's television documentary by Michael Wood, his story has been subjected to renewed public...
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Why I no longer worry about side-plate food
It is five years since the fight against passive eating began way back in 2005. With the conquest of the cigarette well in hand in the late Nineties, American health reformers' attention turned to...
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Brush up act on pay
Don't reserve the big salary hikes for vice-chancellors, says former university cleaner Marg Longman Some years ago, I remember pinning a copy of The Times Higher's vice-chancellors pay survey on a...
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Thin end of generous wedge
We must stem the subtle intrusionof religion intoscience, argues Sunny Bains The agendas of those who fund science - such as drug companies or agrochemical corporations - have come under increasing...
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'With a name like Kevin Fong, I was expecting ...
... someone more foreign looking.' Our columnist falls foul of expectations in China One of the fringe benefits of lecturing is that you're likely to get asked to talk somewhere nice, possibly even...
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Instant benefits of a bit of extracurricular blogging
Weblogs help to encourage debate outside lectures. Shola Adenekan reports US colleges, students and lecturers are embracing the next big thing in internet technology. Blogs, the journal-like websites...
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Turn them on to filling the coffers
If you want alumni to give your institution cash, then you have to be prepared to put in the groundwork and make friends with them first, says Harriet Swain Remember that business studies student you...
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Teacher audit
Name: Iain Coleman Age: 52 Job: Principal lecturer in biomedical science/teaching fellow, School of Applied Sciences, Wolverhampton University. Salary: Principal lecturer scale (up to £43,037)...
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Who got that cash?
Tom Devine, director of Aberdeen University's pioneering Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, has welcomed the "stunning news" that the centre has won £1.25 million from the Arts and Humanities...
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Bid to raise hourly pay
Trade unions are to launch a campaign to improve the conditions of hourly paid workers in old universities, where they make up about half of all teaching staff. The Association of University Teachers...
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Campaign concerns
Patricia McManus has been an hourly paid lecturer in the English department at Sussex University for seven years. She is part of an associate tutors' campaign group organised by the Association of...