Defiant French scholar to turn Turk
French historian and writer Jean Michel Thibaux has applied for Turkish citizenship in protest at the French law making it illegal to deny the "genocide" of the Armenians by the Turks in 1915-17....
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Student sues for stress
Kristian Gyoshev, a Bulgarian law student, has attended the last in a series of trials in which he accused the Education Ministry of causing him severe stress by unexpectedly introducing...
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Three words we should like to hear: 'I don't know'
In ignoring uncertainty, evidence-based policy distorts the expert voice and misleads the public, argues Jack Stilgoe BSE, the disease that changed the way the UK thinks about its experts, has its...
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Sally Hunt: If I were voted general secretary of the UCU
The third in a series of three articles in which candidates vying tolead the University and College Union explain what distinguishes them from their rivals. There are lots of political parties, and...
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Frozen out by laptop
It's a ghastly moment when your computer freezes. But spare a thought for Gavin Renwick, Dundee University's new professor of art and policy, who had to give a public presentation of his work last...
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Educational use of discretion
A far ghastlier incident was British historian and cherished Times Higher columnist Felipe Fernández-Armesto's run-in with the US police last week. He was pinned to the pavement by five police...
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Dragons feel the flames
The Royal Society of Edinburgh, which offers enterprise fellowships to researchers keen to commercialise their work, has turned the idea of the BBC's Dragons' Den programme on its head. It exposed a...
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A date with dyscalculia
Bill Rammell, the Higher Education Minister, was incandescent. A piece in the Education Guardian by Roger Kline, the University and College Union equality chief, on government plans to cut funding...
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Cheers! Here's to changing the world
Georgi Derluguian salutes the social scientists rediscovering the spirit of intellectual revolution and attacking frontiers of knowledge. This toast is to the revolution in social science. May it...
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Reaching for stars won't get rid of rats at home
Manned space exploration is a fantasy exploited by politicians that diverts cash from real science, claims Gerard DeGroot. A few years ago, shortly after the Columbia shuttle disaster, I visited the...
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Score an own goal to rise up the table
League tables work in sport, but in higher education they devalue what they aim to measure, argues Frank Furedi. League tables in football provide a clear indication of which team is most successful...
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Click here for a test of flexibility
Traditional exams may no longer be the best way to establish what a student has learnt. Online assessment not only evaluates what students know, it can develop their understanding, says Harriet Swain...
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A great place to escape to eat cake
Name : Jill Raggett. Age : Old enough to know better. J ob : Reader in gardens and designed landscapes at Writtle College in Essex. I teach students on undergraduate programmes in horticulture and...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. The head of my research team was poached early last year by a rival university. He is...
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RAE fuels trend for research only time
Upwardly mobile institutions increasingly offer posts with reduced teaching loads. Olga Wojtas reports The looming 2008 research assessment exercise is galvanising universities into offering new...