Nervy show hijacks protest
A large animal-rights protest outside Oxford University last weekend was somewhat thwarted by a band of eight patients who turned up to explain how animal research had helped them personally. Mike...
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In office, but not in the office
Manchester University's new leader, the straight-talking Alan Gilbert, is hard at work promoting his new-look university, travelling hither and yon to meet the great and the good. But perhaps his...
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Stress rises after PR denial
Wishful thinking was in evidence at De Montfort University after The Times Higher 's exclusive story about the level of stress among its staff. The university's PR man told the Bedfordshire on Sunday...
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Norman Stone: review
TURKS Royal Academy of Arts, London, until April 12. www.turks.org.uk "It mutilates you if you cannot read the language of your grandparents' tombs," says a Turkish friend. This applies not only to...
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Why I...kept quiet during the Oxford Animal Lab demonstration
"Is this it?" I thought, as I joined the animal-rights protesters outside Balliol College, Oxford, on Saturday. Yet another demonstration against the construction of a new animal laboratory was...
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The colour of the truth
Slavoj Zizek urges academics, who too easily use false terms like 'freedom', to reach for the red ink The Amish practise the tradition of rumspringa . At 18, their children, who have since birth been...
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'Missing' students are a myth
The Sutton Trust's sums on state school students at university do not add up, says Sam Freedman The Sutton Trust regularly argues that there are 3,000 state school students "missing" from leading...
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Today's news
Anger at BNP visit to St Andrews The leader of the British National Party has been invited to speak next Wednesday at St Andrews, where Prince William studies. Anti-racist groups condemned the...
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Laurie Taylor Column
" The Arts and Humanities Research Board is to produce a 'top ten list' of the most important journals in such subjects as media and cultural studies in a bid to establish new performance measures...
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Leader: The overlooked and the unpaid
The insecurity faced by contract researchers on fixed-term contracts in the UK has proved an intractable problem. For the past two weeks The Times Higher has highlighted both the number of...
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Leader: Honest competition?
Vice-chancellors who think the answer to their financial worries lies in increasing recruitment overseas beware, there may be stiff competition for international students from unexpected quarters....
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Nul points for top ten journal idea 1
The Arts and Humanities Research Board is attempting to impose a rank order of journals on the arts and humanities community in the name of a spurious objectivity imposed by the Office of Science and...
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Nul points for top ten journal idea 2
The proposal to create lists of top-ten journals will lead to a number of unintended consequences that are as regrettable as they are predictable. Rejection rates for the top journals are certain to...
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Nul points for top ten journal idea 3
Groundbreaking paradigm-shift research that challenges existing orthodoxies and moves disciplines in new directions is surely desirable. But such work does not necessarily find a welcome in...
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Nul points for top ten journal idea 4
Plans to produce yet more league tables are deeply disturbing to historians. The proposal would lead to publication of fewer articles and a reduction in the dissemination of research. It would be a...