Vienna gives tax rebate for research
Universities in the Austrian capital are to get a €1.3 million (£890,000) a year tax windfall to help fund research and development. The money will come in the form of a rebate from the property...
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Ceasefire brings hope to staff at risk of Eta attack
Academics who have lived under threat from Basque separatist group Eta have grown cautiously optimistic since the announcement of a ceasefire in March, writes Rebecca Warden in Barcelona. They hope...
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Germany faces science crisis
Germany has Europe's lowest proportion of university-educated qualified professionals in science and engineering in the 25-34 age group, according to Eurostat, the European Union statistical agency....
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Decline in IT forces teaching job cuts
Australian institutions are downsizing as enrolments slide, writes Geoff Maslen Hundreds of academics have lost their jobs teaching information technology courses at Australia's universities after a...
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The best deal possible, but our work is not done
The national pay deal is a small step, but Sally Hunt pledges to keep seeking more respect for academic staff Contrary to reports in last week's Times Higher , the decision to ballot union members on...
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Colin Barker: Pro-Test, anti-complexity
LAURIE PYCROFT: THE MAKING OF A TEENAGE PROTESTER Channel 4 Sixteen-year-old Laurie Pycroft initiated Pro-Test, a movement to defend Oxford University's new animal laboratories against animal-rights...
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The grape escape
Hard times at All Souls: it was bad enough for the Oxford University college having to turn down a bequest rather than move its Christopher Wren sundial, but worse was to come. Someone has been at...
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Mark their words
So much for delays for finalists this year. Peep's understands that students can discover their degree results ahead of time by looking on Birmingham University's intranet. A somewhat fraught e-mail...
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Paris council
Edinburgh University has devised a cunning plan to ensure record attendance at its general council meeting - relocate to Paris. Staff and students will mull over the last meeting's minutes at the...
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Who's in with the in-crowd?
Peep's is appalled to hear that the Minister for Higher Education and the vice-chancellor of Leeds University were forced to jostle among thousands of sweaty students last week. Rather than being...
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Awesome revels in jellyfish and ideas
We ask what inspires you about academe, where some disciplines even get a shot at changing the world, one student at a time "Academic life is very special. There are few careers where your only...
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Confront the colluders in Israel's academy
Israeli scholars have either collaborated in the occupation or turned a blind eye. They deserve a boycott, argues Lisa Taraki Although Menahem Milson's career path and mine have been on a collision...
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I'm a man who just can't say 'no'
The constantly harried Kevin Fong gets to grips with a very modern affliction This week, I started a new job, worked 60 hours in an intensive care unit, chaired a few sessions at a conference on...
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Referee, beware blowing whistle
If you are asked to provide a job reference for a student, make sure your facts are correct, avoid generalisations and discriminatory statements, and mind your p's and q's, as Harriet Swain outlines...
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Atomic collision of work and kids
Name : Linda Amrane-Cooper Age : Almost 42 Job : Head of initial professional studies, a department within the faculty of education at Anglia Ruskin University. We train new teachers and provide...