Delivered from the Baath party nightmare
Under Saddam's regime, only the party faithful could dream of a career, and to dream of anything else could cost you your life. Now top Iraqi academics tell Olga Wojtas of a new sense of hope This...
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'Religion should not provide the basis for ethics.' Discuss
Lewis Wolpert, a man of science, and Richard Harries, a man of religion, face off in a rehearsal of their positions for tonight's inaugural 'Controversial Thesis' debate at the National Portrait...
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'My supervisor is great - but I can't get up in the morning'
Six months in and some of our postgrads are finding the going tough. As experts gather for today's conference on 'Postgraduate Education', The Times Higher catches up with the students it is tracking...
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'My supervisor is great - but I can't get up in the morning'
Six months in and some of our postgrads are finding the going tough. As experts gather for today's conference on 'Postgraduate Education', The Times Higher catches up with the students it is tracking...
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'My supervisor is great - but I can't get up in the morning'
Six months in and some of our postgrads are finding the going tough. As experts gather for today's conference on 'Postgraduate Education', The Times Higher catches up with the students it is tracking...
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'My supervisor is great - but I can't get up in the morning'
Six months in and some of our postgrads are finding the going tough. As experts gather for today's conference on 'Postgraduate Education', The Times Higher catches up with the students it is tracking...
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Cradle of despair?
Is the increasing tendency to label normal reactions to childbirth as postnatal depression undermining our ability to cope as parents? asks Ellie Lee Is postnatal depression an epidemic? According to...
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Leader: Conferences, Issue No. 1
Students living in Edinburgh University's Chancellor's Court development enjoy double beds that can separate into two singles, en-suite shower and toilet facilities, and even a university television...
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Budget bites
Organising a one-day event requires an aptitude for securing funding and saturation marketing - and a talent for cut-price catering. In their conference diary, Thomas Nutt, Alysa Levene and Samantha...
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Smoothie operators
From energising drinks to golf links, Olga Wojtas collects pointers on how expert organisers make a conference an unmissable event. Gone are the days when the criteria for a successful conference...
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Vroom service
Opening their doors to ad agencies and film and TV companies as well as to conferences can provide institutions with a healthy second income. Anna Fazackerley reports. Some 400 people surged into St...
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For all who relish a slice of life
Academics, it seems, love a culinary adventure and will eat almost anything, as Michael North discovers. Bert Hall will never forget nearly starving in Delaware in the US. It was 1981 and he had been...
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Views with a room
Universities have to be businesslike and professional in providing conference venues and accommodation. Huw Richards reports. Tony Rogers vividly remembers the conference he attended a few years ago...
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A badge of honour
The annual mass gathering of anthropologists - with its fights over status, territorial disputes and rituals of belonging - is little different from other clannish assemblies, and that's why Susan...
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Oh we do like to be beside the seaside…
A conference that combines learning and leisure draws academics, and setting it in a tourist-friendly spot offers an added inducement, writes Chris Bunting It is sometimes easy to forget what...