California accused of gender bias
A week after Harvard University announced a programme to increase the number of women on its staff, an institution on the other side of the US has come under attack for hiring too few women. About...
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Savings plan criticised
Critics have rounded on a savings scheme proposed by the New Zealand Government to help families pay for their children's higher education. They say it will not improve participation among those on...
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China gets tough with low-quality institutions
The Chinese education ministry has issued "yellow card" warnings to 60 universities and colleges this year, more than double the usual annual tally. A university that receives a yellow card must...
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Make torture legal, say law academics
Two Australian academics have generated a storm of controversy over claims that torture is "morally defensible" even if it causes the deaths of innocent people. Mirko Bagaric, head of Deakin...
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EU lends Russia a hand
The Russian Government has asked the European Union for practical aid to help it participate in the Bologna Process. The deal focuses on higher education in detail and was approved in Moscow by...
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Lectures lost on student shoppers
Handouts, rather than speakers, are the main attraction at lectures nowadays. Maria Misra puts it down to students' taste for utility I've been lecturing as Oxford mounts a full lecture programme in...
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Everybody look into my eyes...
Having problems delivering lectures to a large number of students? The mind is a fickle thing and, says Harriet Swain, if your audience is losing interest or simply can't hear you, you need to mix it...
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Perfect perch for creative night owl
Name: Harriett Gilbert Age: 56 Job: Programme director, MA in creative writing (novels), department of journalism and publishing, City University. Salary: Half the senior lecturer salary (mine's a 0....
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. After 15 years as a lecturer and senior lecturer in my department I feel my permanent...
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Open offer to tempt research top talent
Aberdeen University this week launched one of the most inventive recruitment drives seen in The Times Higher , inviting academics to apply for jobs it has not advertised and promising top-flight...
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Who got that job?
Peter Bisschop Lectureship in Sanskrit at Edinburgh University Job advertised in The Times Higher , December 3, 2004 With just five UK universities offering courses that include Sanskrit, Peter...
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The Gauntlet gives entrepreneurs a private grilling
The recent BBC Two television show Dragons' Den featured brave entrepreneurial souls so sure that they were on to a winner that they were prepared to pitch their idea in front of the nation to a...
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Europe to ensure PhDs meet needs
With the Bologna Process on track for 2010, European higher education ministers want universities to ensure that doctoral programmes satisfy the broader job market as well as training future...
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Scientists' entente cordiale in Paris
Scientists from the ten newest members of the European Union are opening a dialogue with their French counterparts. Representatives of the academies of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia,...
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Czechs hunt Briton in cash probe
Interpol is helping Czech police and university authorities find a British administrator who disappeared after the discovery of financial irregularities in a European Union-funded programme at...