Allow the most able to shine
Are tricky examination questions illegal? Phil Race and James Tooley debate As higher education is increasingly for the masses, experts argue it must evolve to accommodate the new intake. Changes...
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Will the 'new, new' universities be good for the sector?
The Times Higher finds opinion divided on the issue "There is overprovision in the sector already and some institutions are finding it hard to perform as proper universities maintaining a good...
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It's part of the job to 'justify' terror
The Terrorism Bill leads Maria Misra to turn her thoughts from a cosy campus life to contemplating a spell behind bars There are two persistent cliches about the nature of academic life, both turning...
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Knock, knock. Who's there...?
...an embarrassingly unfunny academic. If you want to be popular with students, becoming the lecture theatre clown isn't always a winner, says Harriet Swain, but boundless enthusiasm could be Heard...
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Happy networker has got the blues
Name : David Green Age : 38 Job : Medical representative for academici, the global networking site for academics; and consultant cardiothoracic anaesthetist and intensivist, University Hospital...
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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 employed as a cleaner in a university. Around Christmas time, it is not uncommon...
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Who got that cash?
British scientists are to examine the effects of the catastrophic drought that hit the Amazonian basin this year. The drought left millions of people without key supplies after rivers and lakes used...
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Vanquish the fatal five
University managers are largely to blame for five "fatal flaws" that experts say can ruin an academic department. Researchers at Sheffield Hallam University's Centre for Integral Excellence...
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Today's news
Cambridge fails to return to profit Cambridge University reported a year-on-year improvement in its finances yesterday, but narrowly failed to return to the black despite a major cost-cutting...
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Laurie Taylor Column
Enjoying your dinner, Roger? You like goose, don't you? Oh yes, mother. I got it from Clarissa Dickson Wright. Hungarian. That's why there are eggy dumplings and paprika. Very nice. Roger, is...
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto
America is not becoming increasingly religious. It is interested in patriotism, not piety, and the church is a social resource Americans are irreligious. I made this surprising discovery by going to...
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Leader: Mapping out a brighter future
This year's Christmas present for the higher education system is a new university. Not one of the nine former colleges that have been promoted, but the extension and recasting of an existing...
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Leader: Oxford fact and fiction
Columnists and leader writers have been frothing at the mouth since Oxford University published its discussion paper on admissions last week. Proposals for applications to be routed through the...
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Less work - more study and cash 1
The report on term-time working ("Cover-up claims over debt research", November 18) is depressing at face value and raises many questions for all those careers services and student unions that run...
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Less work - more study and cash 2
I read with interest the article "Top-ups blamed for wane in demand" (December 16). I have to disagree with Julian Nicholds's appraisal of the situation that students are being deterred from entering...