US staff fear drop in quality
More than 40 per cent of US academics think their students lack even the basic skills for university-level work, according to a survey. The survey, of 40,670 professors at 421 universities, also...
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Belarus tightens its grip on private sector
The Belarusian Government is extending its tight control of state universities and academics to private institutions. Alexander Radzkou, the Minister of Education, last week introduced a Higher...
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Visa demand plateaus
Universities in Australia can no longer rely on increasing numbers of fee-paying students from China to boost their incomes, according to a report. The number of Chinese students going abroad to...
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Cutting girls down to Victoria Beckham's size
'Girl power' and the rise of the female celebrity enfeeble women and erode their confidence, says Angela McRobbie For the thousands of young women who have just arrived on campus, women's groups and...
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Gary Day
Plagiarism is the ultimate taboo because it lays bare the logic of the world - especially that of our universities Why do we make such a fuss about plagiarism? Yes, it's an academic offence - but so...
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Blame game turns to shame
Bill Rammell, the Higher Education Minister, took The Times to task for overstating dropout rates last month. But this week, the boot was on the other foot when the newspaper challenged his own use...
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Roberts on the rise
Rumour has it that Sir Gareth Roberts, president of both the Science Council and of Wolfson College, Oxford, has a number of heavyweight admirers in Whitehall. Sir Gareth - who established himself as...
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A Higher level of romance
Anyone who doubts the ability of the average academic in the wooing stakes will be heartened to hear about the plotting of one romantic professor. The man, we'll call him Don Juan, had to organise a...
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Unanimous satisfaction
Universities that did not get glowing reports from the National Student Satisfaction Survey have seized every opportunity to denounce the exercise as pointless and flawed. Now they have some pleasing...
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Spirit of '68 alive in university perspectives
Forget May '68 - Paris was a picnic compared with campus carnage in the Eternal City. For confirmation, spend two hours on the south coast watching digitised film footage of Italian riot police...
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Why I think bullying in university departments is on the increase
The articles and letters on bullying published recently in The Times Higher have made me contemplate my experiences as head of department. It was nearly 30 years ago and there were only six of us in...
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Using all our heads
Brain science is benefiting from the people power of EU citizens' panels, enthuses Sharron Dickson When a letter arrived from the Science Museum's Dana Centre asking me if I was interested in...
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Of mice and mental menace
Jamie Clarke teaches a Mickey Mouse course that challenges lazy thinking One bugbear that surfaces regularly in debates about the value of tertiary education is the question of so-called Mickey Mouse...
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Tutorials, £30 an hour. Buy now!
Good tutor-student interaction is priceless, says Tim Birkhead. So where can you get some for your kids? I have a scheme to boost academics' salaries. It's an idea that embraces recent changes in...
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Float an idea and get them to bite
You think you've written the perfect journal article but editors won't take the bait. That may be because there's more to reeling in interest than hurriedly scribbling down your musings, says Harriet...