Dr Dai Llemmer
I have received a voicemail message from the vice-chancellor of a well-known grey-brick university in the heart of Dickens country. "We're rebranding!" he shouts. "Whole bloody lot! I want a new name...
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To hell and back
As plans are unveiled for a major exhibition on Jack the Ripper, Clive Bloom considers the enduring cultural and scholarly fascination with both the killer and his East End hunting ground There was...
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My Sisyphean labour
When Bernard Wasserstein began his history of modern Europe, he was a fresh faced young lecturer. Twenty-five years on - and seriously behind schedule - he finally delivered on his contract
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Strategic ocean funding initiative
Deadline: 10/10/2007
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Industry interchange programme
Deadline: 19/10/2007
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Big rise in students seeking redress
Ombudsman upholds per cent of complaints as ranks of the dissatisfied swell, reports Rebecca Attwood. Complaints by students against their universities have increased sharply, newly released figures...
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When is a degree a superior GCSE?
Some universities may soon be providing little more than "remedial secondary education" to under-qualified undergraduates, an Oxford scholar suggests in today's Times Higher. As thousands of students...
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'The minor planets committee named asteroid 15,727 in his honour'
'Dark skies' and solar eclipses are on the agenda for new Gresham professor of astronomy Ian Morison. A "gentle introduction to Einstein's theory of gravity" is among a series of lectures promised by...
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On the move...
n Brenda Gourley, vice-chancellor of the Open University, has been appointed chair of the Council of the Association of Commonwealth Universities. * Aberdeen University has appointed as librarian...
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'Nobody should go through this'
David Harker talks exclusively to Melanie Newman about his four years of harassment by an ex-student. A lecturer who endured a four-year stalking campaign by a former student has called for...
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Stirling plans to waive PhD dissertation
PhD students will be able to obtain doctorates without completing the traditional 80,000-word dissertation in what is claimed to be a pioneering initiative by Stirling University. Stirling said this...
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A wee dram
(Photograph) - A wee dram - or is it? Chris Reid, a forensic science BSc student at Paisley University, is undertaking a 12-month placement at the drinks firm Diageo, helping its science team to...
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Anger at 'breach of trust'
An academic who publicly ridiculed the poor literacy skills of his undergraduate class has been accused of a breach of trust by the university's student union, writes Tariq Tahir. Bernard Lamb...
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Next week
Who got all the cash? Which institutions are most - and least - - successful at winning research council grants? Full analysis PLUS Gore blimey! The creation of 'Jack the Ripper"
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Shanghai surprise
Cambridge University has fallen two places in the Shanghai Jiao Tong University's 2007 world rankings. This year Cambridge is in fourth spot behind Harvard, Stanford and Berkeley. Oxford stays in...