Brussels, 23 Sep 2004 The European Commission has published a corrigendum to its call for tenders for a study on highly-cited patents, highly-cited publications and research networks. The deadline...
"Today's students need much more spoon-feeding than previous generations of undergraduates" - Times Higher survey, September 17 Imogen? Is that you lurking outside the door? Do come in. Please sit...
Two international conferences in less than a month have focused on the relationship between higher education and the media - testament, if any were required, to the growing recognition that the two...
Most honorary degrees are uncontroversial, awarded as they are to eminent academics or figures who have a longstanding association with a university. But recent months have seen a rash of awards that...
For many months I have been puzzled by the attitude of the Association of University Teachers to Nottingham University's new pay system for academic-related staff. Unlike the other campus unions, the...
Management at Nottingham University repeatedly makes the assertion that "the new pay structure for academic-related staff had been fully consulted on and accepted by 99 per cent of staff". It...
It is clear that Robert Kagan seeks to vindicate the argument in his book Paradise and Power at the same time as distancing himself from the mess that the Bush Administration has got itself into (...
Nancy Rothwell can justify vivisection only by raising irrelevant issues (Columnist, September 17). She says donations to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals normally exceed...
After 31 years' service at what is now London Metropolitan University, I am leaving to join another university. I am proud to have been part of an institution that has played a leading role in...
Fears that students from Northern Ireland will be forced to study outside the province are well founded ("Students demand rise in NI enrolment", September 3). This tendency is likely to worsen if...
Laurie Taylor missed the following statistics in his column (September 17): 57 per cent of students have a part-time job to make ends meet (as do 9 per cent of lecturers); 23 per cent of students...
About 500 of us at the Association for Learning Technology conference last week attended the ceremony for the Higher Education Academy (ALT)/ Times Higher sponsored E-Tutor of the Year Award (News,...
Five per cent of academics aged between 35 and 40 "don't know" whether they are actively pursuing a career outside academe ( Times Higher survey, September 17). Should someone in authority be...
As if there aren't enough Grumpy Old Men writing for The Times Higher , no sooner do I renew my subscription than you announce Frank Furedi is to be a regular feature. True to the form of his...
I have a great deal of sympathy and empathy with the difficulties described in the Soapbox on contract researchers (August 6). I was on fixed-term research contracts for the first eight years of my...