Finding new ways to measure success This graph is by Peter Knight, vice-chancellor of the University of Central England. He separates universities into three distinct groups that highlight the...
Struther Arnott, 64, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of St Andrews for 14 years, is to retire on or shortly after St Andrew's Day (November 30). His announcement was a surprise...
Mo Mowlam, secretary of state for Northern Ireland, will receive an honorary doctorate of laws from Queen's University, Belfast in December. The university is also to award honorary law degrees in...
Monday Marathon 9am-3pm haematology class. By 11am more than 80 have turned up - maybe blood cells aren't so bad after all. Shake off last student by 3.30pm and retreat to office. Twenty-minute...
Poor quality abuse The Association of University Teachers Scotland decided to make a high-profile splash in the new devolved Scotland with a full-colour advertisement in one of the Scottish papers....
Leonard Shlain's argument about goddess worship ("Writing on the wall for goddesses" (THES, May 7) makes sense if these assumptions are true: * there are such things as "male" and "female" values *...
Last week in The THES... Andrew Oswald argued that British academics would be paid market-led salaries within the next decade, with science professors earning twice as much as art or music professors...
Q) I am supervising a student whom I strongly suspect is suffering from mental health problems. I have no experience of this and want to know what is the best way to help her. Colin Lago Sheffield...
In the 1960s, David Triesman was making rousing speeches to students about communism and the iniquities of chemical weapons. Today, his audiences are lecturers and his principal subject pay. But his...
The presidency of a French university carries few rewards. Ivar Ekeland writes to a prospective candidate My dear X, LESS THAN The president of our university is nearing the end of his term and you...
The Chinese government has declared protests by students who attacked the US and British embassies in Beijing a justified and legal reaction to Nato action in the Balkans. Windows were smashed and...
Henri Konan Bedie, president of Cote d'Ivoire accused opposition parties of being behind two weeks of intermittent clashes between police and university students to discredit his government in the...
Sacked prime minister Yevgeni Primakov is likely to return to his old post at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Mr Primakov, a 69-year-old Middle East expert and former Soviet-era KGB chief, planned...
A Scots Labour and an English Conservative MEP have each written to Romano Prodi, president-designate of the European commission, urging him to intervene in Italy's long-running dispute over foreign-...
The Tatung Institute of Technology in Taiwan named a former computer engineering student as author of the Chernobyl (CIH) virus which caused many computers around the world to fail last month. The...