It is the best of times and the worst of times as the reign of bioterror tightens its grip on the US science academy. And recent events at Boston University perfectly symbolise the dual nature of...
The new fees market is about to kick off, but is your university match fit? asks Mike Goldstein Those who spend Saturdays watching "the beautiful game" will be familiar with a chant often directed at...
Ellie Levenson became a convert to inclusivity after realising that the snob lecturing students was her When I arrived at my redbrick university in the Nineties, I felt perfectly justified in...
It's time to take risks in the name of academic freedom, argues Frank Furedi Academic freedom is so crucial to the integrity of academic life that even those politicians, bureaucrats and...
A few years ago, as external examiner for an institution in Sri Lanka, I got a day off and I was taken to an elephants' orphanage. As I walked through the lush vegetation, I passed an attractive Sri...
Chancellor Gordon Brown last week urged students to do more voluntary work in their gap year. And once they've caught the volunteering bug, what better place to continue such work than in the...
A student's crush may at first seem flattering, but if you handle it badly things could turn nasty. Harriet Swain suggests ways to avoid any unpleasant consequences She blushes as you walk into the...
Name : Melanie Hani Age : 31 Job : Programme leader for animation and design, Sunderland University. Salary : Disproportionate to the spread of global wealth. Qualifications : BA (Hons) in design...
Academics have little desire to become managers, with the result that universities are not being run as well as they could be, says the organisation set up to improve the quality of university...
The Arts and Humanities Research Board is looking for an academic with a good research record to fill the post of director of research when it becomes a research council in April. Geoffrey Crossick,...
Guy Grant Research associate, Unilever Cambridge Centre for Molecular Informatics, department of chemistry, Cambridge University Job advertised in The Times Higher , March 19, 2004 Guy Grant is in...
Brussels, 10 February 2005 An expert panel led by Dr Erkki Ormala, Vice President of Technology Policy at Nokia, has concluded that the European Union’s Research and Development Programmes have made...
Brussels, 10 Feb 2005 Researchers from the Southampton Oceanography Centre and the British Geological Survey have helped to collect the first seafloor images of the earthquake zone that caused the...
Brussels, 10 Feb 2005 A new study of climactic conditions in the northern hemisphere over the last 2,000 years has led scientists to increase their estimates of the impact of natural climate change...
Brussels, 10 Feb 2005 The French Ministry for Research has announced that it will sponsor, for the first time, scientific programmes on television. Those one-minute programmes entitled 'La science...