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  1. Napier: Transform Scotland Trust

    Stephen Stradling, professor of transport psychology, has been appointed chair of the Transform Scotland Trust. He was recently appointed to an expert panel advising on a road safety strategy for...

    #Non-Academic
    #People

  2. Royal Academy of Music: principal

    The Royal Academy of Music has appointed Jonathan Freeman-Attwood principal from September. He has been vice-principal and director of studies at the academy since 1995. He became a professor of the...

    #Humanities
    #People

  3. St Andrews: chemistry

    Douglas Lloyd, an honorary professor, received a PhD in chemistry at the age of 87 after a 60-year association with the university.

    #Grants & Awards
    #People

  4. V-c welcomes new look

    Speaking shortly after his return from an exhausting nine-day conference in the Maldives on the future of higher education, our Vice-Chancellor declared that he was "really on the whole fairly...

    #Laurie

  5. Requiem for lost optimism

    Alan Ryan muses on the naive vigour of higher education in the Sixties.

    #Alan Ryan
    #Columnists
    #Opinion

  6. Shrinking volumes

    As academic bookselling declines, Susan Bassnett sees hope for authors and readers alike in web publishing.

    #Columnists
    #Opinion
    #Susan Bassnet

  7. Leader: The look's new, the goal is not

    The world, especially that of higher education, does not stand still. To continue to reflect the academy, we must also change.

    #Leader
    #Opinion

  8. University of Oxford: Battle of the book depository

    Oxford City Council's decision to refuse planning permission for the University of Oxford's proposed £29 million book depository is to be contested. The university believes that the depository, which...

    #Institutions
    #News
    #University of Oxford

  9. Tough decision that merits a cry for help

    I wonder if your readers can help me with an ethical dilemma? I have been asked to referee an article that cites ten of my papers, but that (in my professional opinion) does not merit publication.In...

    #Letters

  10. Sites for citations?

    While Tim Birkhead (Columnist, 4 January) is right in that mis-citation is a serious problem, his focus only on the training of researchers downplays the importance of access to the literature in...

    #Letters

  11. Sites for citations?

    Many academics would agree with Tim Birkhead's insistence that articles should "cite the first reference to report a particular fact or concept". This is probably one of the reasons that universities...

    #Letters

  12. Fellow traveller

    Your launch of a new-look Times Higher Education coincides with my retirement from a career in higher education. I have been a regular reader since the beginnings of your esteemed organ in 1971, and...

    #Letters

  13. Peerless ideas

    Stevan Harnad compares peer review to the "ragtag" generic panel (Letters, 4 January).Wikipedia is the most massively peer-reviewed publication in the history of publication, and every single article...

    #Letters

  14. Peerless ideas

    Stevan Harnad complains about "so much noise and so little sense" in regard to the post-research assessment exercise metrics debate, but validation of a metric is not achieved by demonstrating...

    #Letters

  15. Hourly paid progress

    Your anonymous contributor paints a vivid and depressing picture of the two-tier workforce that characterises higher education (Opinion, 4 January). The division between a relatively well-paid and...

    #Letters