Girl-power lunch a bit of a giggle
The lunch for female achievers hosted by the Queen earlier this month was graced by just one English vice-chancellor - Bernadette Porter, rector of Roehampton, University of Surrey. Dr Porter, who is...
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Lit up by a wave from Brian
Researchers from Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen last week began sea trials of a prototype turbine platform that they hope will revolutionise the renewable energy industry by generating tidal...
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Don's diary: a craftsman of beautiful chaos
Monday Courtesy of an award from the Arts and Humanities Research Board, I'm en route to New York to interview Richard Foreman, the avant-garde writer and director. Foreman is virtually unknown to UK...
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Why I... believe Zionism isn't racist
According to my university student union, I am a racist. For two years before starting my masters degree, I worked for an anti-racism charity, and as an undergraduate I was active in tackling racism...
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Can't stem progress
The UK could profit from the US' politicking with basic biomedical research, says Roger Pedersen If you've seen the movie The Graduate, you'll remember the scene in which the financier walks over to...
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All deserve a sporting chance
Education is right to nurture sport as it widens access and fosters personal growth, says Deian Hopkin Almost 50 years ago, a 25-year-old student doctor ran the first four-minute mile, at Oxford...
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Your intellectual gonads on a knife-edge...
... or dealing with the media. Tim Birkhead offers a few tips on how to keep those scientific credentials intact You are completing your PhD when you have just had the good fortune, good supervision...
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JOBWATCH: add detail to a dream
To fulfil Suffolk's cherished dream of having its own university, its fairy godmothers are seeking a multi-talented mover and shaker to set the project on track. Pat Leon provides a progress report...
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Who got that job?
Joseph Tah, 41, and Farzad Khosrowshahi, 47 Professor in construction IT Min £42,1 Job advertised in The Times Higher, May 3 2003 The calibre of candidates for a chair in construction information...
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Passion will thaw those now frozen in low gear
It's 9am Monday and the lecture hall is ice cold - how do you get engineering students fired up? John O'Brien suggests stoking up their enthusiasm Any student is difficult at 9am on a Monday, but...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage Name: Tiffany Atkinson Age: 31 Job: Lecturer in English and creative writing at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth Salary...
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MPs square up over bill
Rebel Labour MPs will make their final attempt next week to force the government to abandon plans for variable tuition fees by tabling a radical amendment to the higher education bill. Ian Gibson,...
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Painter's brush with 'heresy'
Are there allusions to a medieval heretical belief that Jesus Christ had a sexual relationship with John the Evangelist in an unfinished altarpiece by Michelangelo? A US scholar will pose the...
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Brown says v-cs are key to success of economy
Effective leadership from vice-chancellors is vital if UK universities are to be world leaders, the chancellor said this week, writes Paul Hill. Speaking at the launch of the Leadership Foundation...
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Today's news
Maniac dons offered cycle-safety lessons Oxford University, stung by complaints from pedestrians, is offering its 12,000 staff, a quarter of whom cycle, free places on a cycle safety course. Gillian...