Charity will help staff to juggle life
Service will offer 24/7 advice on finance, stress and love, writes Anthea Lipsett. "Life coaching" to help busy lecturers manage their money, balance their work and social lives - and even improve...
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Who got that job?
Heather Marsden. Lecturer in linguistics, York University. Job advertised in The Times Higher , June 2, 2006 Heather Marsden returns from maternity leave to start a new job as lecturer in second...
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Enterprising Stirling seeks knowledge-transfer staff
Stirling University is seeking nine new staff to beef up its enterprise and knowledge-transfer activities. The posts, advertised in today's Times Higher , range from a business development manager to...
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New Hubble servicing mission to upgrade instruments
Paris, 31 October 2006 NASA approves repair mission for Hubble Space Telescope After more than a decade of fascinating discoveries, the Hubble Space Telescope will soon be given the new beginning it...
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AKARI's view of Large Magellanic Cloud - star formation at work
Paris, 1 November 2006 The infrared surveyor AKARI, a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission with ESA participation, is nearing the completion of its first scan of the entire sky. During...
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Astrolab Industry Day to showcase European research technology on ISS - 7 November
Paris, 31 October 2006 ESA will be hosting the 'ISS Research Technology from Europe' Industry Day on 7 November 2006 at the ESTEC facility in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. The event is open to...
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"I/A" item note for adoption of proposed directive on supervision and control of shipments of radioactive waste and spent fuel
Brussels, 1 November 2006 Full text of Document 14395/06 Suite of documents 14395/06 Brussels, 31 October "I/A" ITEM NOTE From General Secretariat of the Council To COREPER/Council No. Cion prop.:...
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Reflection paper on use of fluoroquinolones in food-producing animals - Focus Group meeting of CVMP experts, interested parties and member states
London, 31 October 2006 CVMP Reflection paper on the use of fluoroquinolones in food-producing animals in the European Union: Development of resistance and impact on human and animal health On 12...
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Native vegetables could help solve Africa's food crisis and boost weak rural economies
Washington, 31 October 2006 Full Report Powerful tools for tackling many basic problems in sub-Saharan Africa -- namely hunger, malnutrition, and rural poverty -- could literally spring from the...
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Today's news
Cambridge anxiously views rival's feud on reform The bitter feud between dons at Oxford about reforms to the university's management has spread to Cambridge amid fears the university will be left...
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Laurie Taylor Column
"What would happen if a British researcher produced four pieces of music as a contribution to the RAE?" - Jonathan Adams, director of the company that supplies citation data for the World University...
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Alan Ryan
The dust has settled, the freshers have arrived, viruses from all over the globe are merrily infecting their new hosts, and academics over the age of 50 are, it appears from all the press reports,...
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Leader: Mixed messages about teaching
There are few more sensitive issues for undergraduates - or the staff who teach them - than the amount and style of tuition offered on different courses at different universities. Applicants will...
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Leader: What's in a name?
Paisley University's wish to identify itself with the West of Scotland, rather than the industrial town of its origins, raises yet again the question of what's in a university name. Exchanging Luton...
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RAE factory or glorified job shop? 1
Reading Paul Ramsden's letter (Letters, October ) I thought that a gust of autumn wind had flicked my Times Higher page from Letters to Laurie Taylor. As head of the Higher Education Academy, Ramsden...