Commissioner backs institute
The European Union Research Commissioner, Janez Poto ycnic, has contested claims that the proposed European Institute of Technology will mean less money for research projects in other institutions,...
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Dress ban splits campus
Almost half of Turkish students oppose the ban on women wearing religious headscarves on campus, while a third back the prohibition, a poll has found. The findings come from a survey of the political...
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Shortage of skills not a myth, PM is told
Report says Howard is wrong to claim that Australia needs no more home students. Geoff Maslen reports The Australian Government has come under attack for asserting that too many school students are...
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Your starter for tenure on merits of quiz nerds
All the qualities of a top academic are found in a good University Challenge contestant, believes Paul Brownsey. It wasn't until after I got my academic job that I revealed a dark secret to my new...
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No verdict in case with unanswered questions
The innocence project . BBC One, Thursdays, 8pm It is a good time for The Innocence Project . The new BBC drama series about miscarriages of justice has been launched in an increasingly punitive...
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Enveloped in desperation
The Times Higher has received a white envelope, postmarked Oxford and addressed in spidery handwriting. Inside was a brief anonymous note on the "mood of desperation" that "seems to be setting in...
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Down at Keele
In the midst of all the speculation about why Labour's Science Minister Lord Sainsbury resigned suddenly last week, spare a thought for the poor folk of Keele University. Officials there have been in...
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Northern exposure
Manchester University has become such a popular location for shooting scenes for TV productions that its events directors are beginning to describe it as "the Hollywood of the North". It seems the...
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Curiouser and curiouser
It's a relief to see the US is still worse than the UK when it comes to curbing students' curiosity. A ten-year-old who was disciplined for looking at websites about 9/11 could now be forced to have...
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Know when to raze your game
When Glasgow University's Plant Science Research Centre was razed in a fire five years ago, PhD student George Littlejohn was inconsolable. He believed his nearly finished PhD had literally gone up...
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Too timid to make a stand for freedom
Fear of managers and ministers leaves the QAA reluctant to ask if academics can speak freely, argues Geoffrey Alderman. This year, I plucked up the courage to suggest that the Quality Assurance...
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Keep enterprise zones open to tired and poor
In denying migrants ambition and opportunity, America kills the can-do spirit that gives people hope, argues Irshad Manji Probably no phenomenon today is more global in reach than the mass migration...
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Don't run away - face the music
As numbers of students have risen, academics have ducked the question of what purpose university serves, says Bob Brecher. About 40 per cent of UK school leavers now go to university. And yet, apart...
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Know your part in balancing act
Stressed colleagues need bags of support if they are to manage their life and workload successfully. And that's where you come in, says Harriet Swain, but beware of falling into the sympathy trap...
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Papyrophobe seeks splash of colour
Name : George MacDonald Ross. Age : 62. Job : Senior lecturer in philosophy at Leeds University and director of the Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies of the Higher...