Ten years ago, the sociologist Peter Burnham wrote that the PhD viva is "one of the best-kept secrets in British higher education". A decade later, many academics and research students feel that the...
Central planning is out as China, unlike the UK, prepares for a globalised future, says Bill Macmillan. The internationalisation of higher education and the fact that there is already a global market...
Full economic costing will harm research outside the elite circle - to the country's cost, says David Gillingham. In the week that Gordon Brown outlines his budget and offers the carrot of extra...
Young academics often feel isolated and ill treated in a new job. The solution is to get connected, says Susan Bassnett More than 30 years ago, just after my 21st birthday, I took up my first...
A specialism in medieval French knitting is not enough to secure a job and a first-class degree may not win AHRB funding. Pat Leon looks at the problems faced by language departments Falling student...
Claire Atkins, 32 School Manager School of Ocean and Earth Science Southampton Oceanography Centre Job advertised in The Times Higher , June 6 2003 A desire to get back to her Hampshire roots was...
Marathon three-hour teaching blocks left staff and students reeling at first. But refinements have made the strategy a success. Stephen Halliday reports When Buckingham Business School introduced a...
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name : Mike Rowe Age : 36 Job : Lecturer in policing in the department of criminology, Leicester University. Salary :...
A national test to identify the best students is likely to be backed by the Schwartz review of university admissions when it publishes its recommendations next month. The review committee, headed by...
Sir Winston Churchill covertly helped secure US funding that saved the Labour government of 1945 and enabled it to build the British welfare state. New research has revealed the extent to which the...
Education cash not enough, say universities Charles Clarke, the education secretary, yesterday set out his three-year budget, confirming that an extra £8.5 billion would be shared between...
Brussels, 18 March 2004 The European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE), chaired by the Swedish Philosopher, Göran Hermerén, has adopted on March 16th 2004 its Opinion no. 19 on...
Brussels, 18 Mar 2004 A new EU funded project is set to transform eye surgery and dramatically cut the number of experiments conducted on animals by reconstructing a human cornea in vitro. The '...
Brussels, 18 Mar 2004 A survey carried out in Germany has found that the general public is not against stem cell research and might actually encourage the government to use adult stem cells for...
Brussels, 18 Mar 2004 The European Commission has adopted a proposal for a directive and two recommendations aimed at introducing a 'scientific visa' to facilitate the movement of third country...