Don's diary: Science of catching the light
Friday: 8pm We are back on board ship after opening up the British Antarctic Survey's summer base at Signy. I am taking time out from my astroplasma physics research to travel with the survey as an...
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A tasty rum and Coke
Congratulations to David Triesman, former head of the Association of University Teachers, who was last week appointed to the House of Lords. His old trade union colleagues at lecturers' union Natfhe...
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Knot to be expected
Wendy Alexander, who dramatically and unexpectedly resigned as Scotland's enterprise and lifelong learning minister in 2002, has lost none of her capacity to surprise. Friends and family turned up...
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Whodunit this time?
It's a big "well done" from the Diary to those academics appearing in the 2004 edition of Who's Who for the first time. The list includes professors Les Ebdon (Luton), Alison Richard (Cambridge),...
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A cat's educational tale
Finally, a heart-warming tale from the West Country. Plymouth College of Further Education has helped reunite a one-eyed black cat with its owners after a five-year absence. The cat, nicknamed One-...
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Why I ...believe scientists and politicians need to work together
Lord Winston proposed in last week's THES that scientists should not be too close to the government and that the public "should... have a major input into how scientific knowledge is generated and...
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This plan is all there is
Killing Labour's proposed tuition scheme could turn a crisis into a disaster, warns Chris Patten The debate about student tuition fees has blotted out discussion of where our higher education system...
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Is your park really sparking?
Do universities really benefit from science parks? Colin Lizieri assesses dubious assumptions Like the latest children's toy, science parks have become must-have developments for universities....
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Don't let a stifled yawn be your wake-up call
How do you inject life into an unresponsive seminar group? Susan Bassnett has some pertinent advice for the exasperated tutor Sooner or later we all come up against one of the most dispiriting events...
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Jobwatch: early signs of growth
Government plans to get children on the right educational track from a young age are creating new job opportunities as universities look to recruit experts in childhood studies. Pat Leon reports...
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Who got that job?
Dénes Szücs, 30 University Lecturer in Neuroscience and Education Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge £23,296 - £35,950 pa Job advertised in The THES , May 2 2003 A young Hungarian...
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Skills give students a spring in their step
A hunger for knowledge has opened doors for aspiring learners in York with few or no qualifications, say Leila Roberts and Linda Pritchard. Can you take students, many without any qualifications,...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name : Rosie Parnell Age : 31 Job : Lecturer in the School of Architecture, University of Sheffield. Salary : £24K plus a...
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Georgian England saw first 'celebrity'
The cult of celebrity may seem a modern phenomenon. But historians have found that Britain's first modern-style celebs started pursuing fame for fame's sake more than two centuries before Big Brother...
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Oxford tutor attacks Cambridge interview
Downing College's techniques were 'bullying and intimidating'. An Oxford University admissions tutor has attacked her Cambridge counterparts for using what she claims are discredited "bullying and...