Take a walk with a simple idea
Your PhD does not have to solve the meaning of life, explains Harriet Swain. It is far better to find a gap in knowledge that can be explored in the appropriate time and that you can build on in...
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A paperless office, what's that?
Name: Chris Willmott Age: "Life begins", as the saying goes, in January... Job: I teach biochemistry and bioethics (sometimes simultaneously) at Leicester University. I am the editor of Bioscience...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. I am a 42-year-old balding lecturer with a beer gut and glasses. Strangely, a young...
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UCL casts the net for innovative engineers
Academics with a head for business are being sought for a new department at University College London, writes Alan Thomson. In this week's Times Higher , the college is offering three positions in...
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Who got that cash?
A Bristol University academic has won £314,411 to undertake what must be one of the most pleasant research endeavours in any academic field. Having visited more than 450 historic gardens in...
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Cut pain of change
Got a controversial institutional project? Alan Thomson reports on a way to test it before it is unleashed on staff Imagine if university managers had the chance to test and rethink controversial...
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Eat more humble pie this year
The new year heralds the season of good intentions. Academics would do well to follow the humble example shown by Sir Alexander Todd, the Nobel prizewinning Scottish chemist. According to Chem@Cam ,...
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Grades too low? Try science
Australian Science and Education Minister Julie Bishop’s new year’s resolution is to get more people to study science at university. She is determined to increase demand for science degrees in a bid...
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Insider knowledge?
Sheffield Hallam University’s corporate communications team faced charges of cheating at its annual Christmas jamboree. The team hosted a quiz for local media contacts at which "everyone had a...
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Wheelie festive card
The annual crop of university Christmas cards threw up the usual array of tasteful snow-covered campuses. The determinedly unconventional Terence Kealey, vice-chancellor of Buckingham University,...
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Today's news
Christian students sue in gay rights row Christian students have launched a High Court battle against their university after they were banned from its facilities due to a refusal to accept gay rights...
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Laurie Taylor Column
Enjoying your goose, Roger? It's Nigel Slater. Who's Nigel Slater? Your goose is Nigel Slater. From his book. Roast goose with juniper sauce and apple and lemon puree. Roger, is everything all right...
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Leader: Heading for a future that looks a muddy Brown
After the tumultuous events of the past 12 months - the academic pay dispute, the introduction of top-up fees and the beginning of the end of the research assessment exercise, to name but three -...
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Too early to panic
Your article "Pay deals set to force sector £68m into red" (December 22/29) showed the predictable response from the bean-counters. Accountants are trained to be conservative in their forecasting and...
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Not so far back in time
Vera Rich's acutely sensitive East European antennae have picked up something very important in Transylvania ("Tensions mount as staff fired for using Hungarian", December 15). Unfortunately, the...