Musical chair
Francis Pott has been appointed Thames Valley University's first professor of composition. The introduction of the post, which confers on its recipient a personal chair within the university's music...
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US loses out to rivals as graduate numbers fall
The US higher education system has long been viewed as one of the best in the world, but is the American dream turning sour? Jon Marcus reports. It's spring, when hopeful young applicants all over...
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UK-style RAE taken on by Italy
The UK's much criticised research assessment exercise has been adopted by Italy as the model for a new national agency designed to evaluate academic work. The Agenzia Nazionale del sistema...
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The UK's unloved elite
Why should UK academics be public intellectuals? France, we are told, has lots of them. America, apparently, is also well stocked with well-paid thinkers. Britain remains curiously bereft. At first...
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Off stage, we synchronise chairs
Name: Kate Tuerena Age: 42 Job: Faculty administration manager, faculty of education at Anglia Ruskin University Education/ background: I trained as a stage manager and worked in theatre for 12 years...
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Top-flight teachers gain new acclaim
The Higher Education Academy is preparing to put the finishing touches to a scheme designed to give champions of teaching and learning greater professional recognition. A committee is being assembled...
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Who got that job?
Angela Hull, professor of spatial planning, department of the built environment, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Job advertised The Times Higher, June 16, 2006 At the start of her lectures on urban...
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Early-career cash fillip
Rule changes mean new bioscience researchers will find it easier to set up their own labs, says Melanie Newman Early-career bioscience researchers and lecturers will find it easier to secure funding...
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Laurie Taylor Column
UNIVERSITY OF POPPLETON BSc in Palmistry Report from the external examiner: Professor J. K. L. Anonymous This was another very successful year for the department of palmistry. There were 36 first-...
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto
I have staked a lot on centenaries but I fail to understand their charm. In 1988, I published a book about the Spanish Armada. I had a biography of Columbus ready for 1992. I took part in...
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Leader: Ensuring cheats do not prosper
A couple of years ago, one university, in a desire to be seen to be taking the issue of plagiarism seriously, took the commendable step of spelling out exactly what did and what did not constitute...
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The exaggerations of an exile 1
I would like to congratulate Exeter University for aiming to set up a European Centre for Palestinian Studies. I hope that it can play its part in the foundation of a Palestinian state. But it won't...
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The exaggerations of an exile 2
Illan Pappé is reported as being concerned that if Jewish students concentrate on defending Israel "they then risked drawing Muslim anger against the state of Israel upon themselves". I do not see...
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Waste of a great tutor 1
One of Paul Buckland's students at Bournemouth University sings his praises as a fine teacher, passionate about his subject, a fair marker and someone who always has an open door (Letters, April 6)....
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Waste of a great tutor 2
The recent resignation of a professor who has had his marking and that of a second marker overturned by a head of school with a vested interest in passing students is surely prescient ("Marks U-turn...