Humanities losing cash to science, BA fears
Arts, humanities and social science scholarship is suffering financially because it is seen as lightweight compared with science research, according to a review by the British Academy. The review,...
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Hire a curly wig and wave your pointy stick...
Hire a curly wig and wave your pointy stick if you want to improve your performance review and enhance your enjoyment of work, suggests Valerie Atkinson. Come on, own up. There must be someone out...
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Jobwatch: the power to succeed
From nuclear fuel to wind farms, energy is a hot topic and Birmingham University intends to remain at the forefront of the discipline, writes Chris Johnston Four top-flight academics are being...
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Who got that job?
Marcia Wilson Lecturer in Coaching and Performance Science / Sport Psychology Job advertised in The Times Higher , October 10, 2003 As British fans cheered on Tim Henman at Wimbledon this week, much...
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Zapping sessions spice up lectures
A lecturer at Southampton University uses a personal response system to test how much knowledge students have absorbed. Jon Brooke reports. Although he claims never to have seen an episode of ITV's...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Name : Eleni Theodoraki Age : 35 Job : Lecturer in sports management and warden of Telford Hall of Residence, Loughborough University Salary : Lecturer B scale...
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Cancer charity attacks tobacco funding
Researchers, departments and universities will be named and shamed if they accept money from the tobacco industry under a tough protocol announced this week by Cancer Research UK. The UK's leading...
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Last biotech moves GM research to US
Syngenta, the last of the big biotechnology companies still working on genetic modification in the UK, is to transfer all of its GM operations to the US, prompting accusations that the Government has...
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Doctor still causing a Who-ha
As if by some quirk in the space-time continuum, embarrassing special effects and wobbly sets have done nothing to diminish Doctor Who's position as an iconic television institution in the UK, writes...
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BFI seeks HE partner
The British Film Institute is seeking a higher education partner to help develop what is believed to be the world's most comprehensive film and TV library, writes Tony Tysome. The BFI aims to create...
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Trainer fights for UKeU cash
A leading online training company stands to lose hundreds of thousands of pounds for learning materials it was contracted to produce for the failed UK e-University venture. Doctors.net.uk, which won...
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Scholar strips to show why Ancient Greek athletes raced in the nude
An academic has stripped off for the TV cameras in a bid to test his theory that Ancient Greek athletes competed naked to run faster. Stephen Instone, an honorary research fellow at University...
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Warning issued on overseas courses
UK universities and higher education colleges are not on top of everything that happens in their name overseas, researchers have warned. They need to be better informed and think more strategically...
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Two votes foil introduction of tuition fees in Slovakia
Legislation to introduce tuition fees at Slovak universities from January 2005 is to be redrafted after the country's Parliament rejected it - by two votes. Martin Fronc, the education minister, said...
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Holland to sample variable charges
University leaders in the Netherlands expect a limited experiment with variable fees to go ahead despite the resignation last month of a junior minister in the coalition government who was the...