A Canadian medical school has come up with a high-speed evaluator of prospective medical students. This spring, applicants to courses at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, had to dash through...
France's research minister is planning legislation to make research more efficient and competitive while university presidents want the state's share of research funding to increase from 0.9 per cent...
The Luxembourg-based European Investment Bank is aiming to become one of the most important sources of finance for higher education in the newly expanded European Union. Jean-Jacques Mertens, head of...
John Howard, the ߣߣÊÓƵn prime minister, has announced a A$5.3 billion (£2.1 billion), five-year research and innovation package that will expand on a similar A$2.9 billion programme that began...
The insidious nature of recruiting for RAE success means women are again losing out, says Georgina Waylen Universities are again trying to increase their chance of high ratings in the next research...
What is your experience of teaching? Stuart Campbell asks teachers how they manage. Name : James Agar Age : 32 Job : Lecturer in French and comparative literature at University College London. Salary...
The university marking system is a hopeless muddle that lecturers view with trepidation. Nathan Abrams outlines the problems and pitfalls. It's that time of year again. As students rush to catch up...
Julia Jahansoozi is at the University of Central Lancashire, not Stirling University as reported in Teaching: on the Front Line last week.
Don't lose your rag, especially if you're female. Take a breath and seize your moment calmly, says Susan Bassnett. As soon as I heard a shrill female voice shouting that she was not incompetent or...
Interested in a job that deals with other people's nine-to-five? Chris Johnston finds several institutions searching for those with an interest in research into employment issues. The Institute for...
David Tsiklauri, 32 Lecturer in Space Technology Job advertised in The Times Higher , July 11 2003 Salford may not be the first place that springs to mind when the topic of space is raised, but if...
It started with an unexceptional advertisement buried in the job pages of The Times Higher two weeks ago. A closer inspection revealed something odd about the ad seeking to recruit academics for a...
The construction techniques that medieval masons used to create King's College Chapel in Cambridge, one of the most celebrated medieval buildings in Europe and an icon for higher education, have been...
Stress at work is prompting increasing numbers of academics to seek counselling, according to a study by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. It suggests the number of higher...
Just as we were beginning to believe that students, like much of the rest of the population, were apathetic and apolitical, along comes a "committed activist" as president of the National Union of...