Making a meal of maths
For those of you who have spent the past week counting sheep - or, rather, trying to find the answer to the maths problem posed to school pupils in this year's UK maths challenge - The Diary has the...
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Honour with operatic overtones
Congratulations to Bryan Davies, ex-chairman of the defunct Further Education Funding Council and a former Labour Party spokesman on higher education. Mr Davies was appointed "Commander of the Queen'...
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Don's diary: reading the scars of last ice age
Tuesday I am sitting in a tiny submarine at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico peering out at a menagerie of deep-sea creatures. Aboard the research ship 650m above me are a dozen students on a deep-...
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A violent reaction
Coverage offers former National Front member undue public standing, argues Paul Mackney I am frankly astonished that The THES should have given front-page coverage with a colour photo to Patrick...
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Holey trinity that leaves gaps
Three is not a magic number for industrial research collaboration, says Deian Hopkin Once again, Sir Derek Roberts, the outgoing provost of University College London, has set the cat among the...
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Participants in a historical 'soap'
Graham Rogers explains how an interactive website bridged the gap between teaching and research As another academic year draws to a close, the therapeutic process of trawling through files and...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage Name: Charlotte Sleigh Age: 30 Job: Lecturer (Grade B) in history of science at the University of Kent. Salary: £26,000...
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Why I ... believe today's students have been turned into wimps
Being a student these days seems like a pretty traumatic experience. Students are crippled with debts. They are over-worked and over-stressed. They "can't cope" with the demands of examinations. But...
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AUT alarm at merger 'threat to freedom'
Academics at Manchester University and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology are demanding radical changes to charters and statutes designed to govern the proposed merged...
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'Admissions must look at key skills'
University admissions tutors will have to broaden their entry criteria and give more recognition to key skills under proposals to introduce an English diploma or baccalaureate, further education...
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Brickbat for Cambridge building plan
Old wounds were reopened at Cambridge University this week with the announcement that the technology transfer office is to be rebadged and housed in a £21 million new building. A member of the...
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V-cs fail to make pay offer
The trade unions were left angry after the first round of pay talks this week as vice-chancellors failed to put an offer on the table but demanded concessions on reforming career structures. The...
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Demand to explode but no new cash
Universities are set to be denied funds for extra places next year, despite fresh evidence that demand for higher education will far outstrip the government's plans over the rest of the decade. The...
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Big shake-up and new v-c could take Oxford from ivy-clad to Ivy League
Oxford University could shed its Brideshead Revisited image and become more like key Ivy League universities with a major review of its size and shape and appointment of an entrepreneurial vice-...
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In the news: Sir Roy Meadow
Sir Roy Meadow, a retired paediatric consultant at St James University Hospital, Leeds and an expert in child protection and welfare, may face investigation by the General Medical Council. A...