Super microscope and sensors scoop cash
Research examining how economic, social and biological factors combine to explain human behaviour, and new technology to map magnetic fields across the universe, are among projects to be funded with...
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Pocket(book)s of resistance
The titles of the Open Media Series help lift Tara Brabazon above the daily grind and remind her of the need to question conventional wisdom and fight injustice
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I have heard that employees may soon have a statutory right to request time off for training? Is this true and how will it work?
The Time to Train consultation document was published last month by the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS). It contains a proposal to allow employees who have 26 weeks’ service...
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Top countries in sciences and social sciences based on impact
Data provided by Thomson Scientific from its Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 1998–30 April 2008
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Stress Levels Fall!
New research into stress levels at our university shows that 97.24 per cent of academics "very strongly agree" that their job is "very stressful". This is a decline of 0.2 per cent on last year's...
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We're all colleagues
The wasteful technician-academic divide needs to end, says Sally Feldman
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Off Piste: One tongue, very tied
In decades of linguinsania, Deirdre McCloskey has tried to learn a second language - everything from French, Greek and Latin to German, Scots Gaelic and Sanskrit - with no success. But she's still...
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Leader: High road, low road, cul-de-sac
The SNP wants applied research to drive the Scottish economy. Can universities deliver without more money or a loss of quality?
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Michael Marland, 1934-2008
Michael Marland, the author of a much-loved 1970s "survival guide" to secondary-school teaching, died of cancer on 3 July at the age of 73.Professor Marland, honorary professor of education at the...
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University of Oxford - Godly gift aims to build bridges
Thanks to a benefaction of £2.5 million, the University of Oxford has created a new chair in the study of Abrahamic religions. It will be filled for the start of the 2009-10 academic year. George...
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We can make our job the cat's whiskers
Once again Times Higher Education is engaging in the challenges and complexities of leading and managing as a middle manager - the profession of herding cats ("The in-betweeners", 10 July).I am a...
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Not all back UCU on Israel 1
It is undoubtedly extreme for Baroness Deech to recommend that universities derecognise the University and College Union for the motion passed at its last conference on links with Israeli...
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Not all back UCU on Israel 2
Baroness Deech accuses the UCU of being racist and unprofessional in asking academics to consider the moral and political implications of their links with Israel.The Israeli occupation is extremely...
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Strange role model
Reading John Summers's account of the horrors of teaching at Harvard University ("All the privileged must have prizes", 10 July) reminded me of how strange it is that this is the university whose...