Hot under the collar
Health and family life are being damaged by workaholic cultures and the trend towards short-term contracts and freelance working. Cary Cooper looks at the feel-bad factors. Every decade this century...
Search
-
-
Expulsion legal battle
A former student union vice president was due to appear in the High Court this week seeking a judicial review of South Bank University's decision to expel him. Six other former union executive...
-
Running on empty
Folk at Brunel and Oxford may fuss about honouring Lady Thatcher, but in Israel they are made of sterner stuff. Trumpetting research by Meir Lahav and Leslie Leiserowitz, the Weizmann Institute in...
-
Barre reflection
(Photograph) - Barre reflection: Nicole Tongue from Birmingham Royal Ballet is wired up to the treadmill monitoring equipment at the University of Wolverhampton, where the school of health sciences...
-
Excellent Edinburgh
Ken Munro, the European Commission's head of representation in Scotland, says Edinburgh University has long been renowned as a European centre of excellence. "That reputation has been enhanced in...
-
Paper wars turn Lot's Wife to pillar of salt
Some of Australia's oldest and, at times, most notorious university student newspapers are being forced to close. Student newspapers have been challenging authority and questioning government...
-
Anger at a university that's doubled the pain
Your front-page article on redundancies (THES, June 14), correctly reports the anger felt by academic staff at South Bank University at the proposal to axe at least 84 lecturing posts. This...
-
Tongues tied
Linguistic rights are closely linked to civil rights. A newly signed declaration should go some way towards their preservation. Ned Thomas reports. Where else could you meet an Arawak-speaker from...
-
LSE leads the way on top-up fees
Academics at the London School of Economics voted by four to one on Wednesday to accept the principle of fees for home and EU undergraduates as part of a package of measures designed to tackle a...
-
Dali look at Dallas
Mireia Montane, director of the European office of Catalunya's education department, told an Educational Institute of Scotland conference about moves to promote the Catalan language after its 40-year...
-
Anglia pioneers DIY masters
A blueprint of how higher education institutions might allow lifelong learners to design their own properly validated masters courses has been produced by Anglia Polytechnic University. The...
-
Fair exchange
Politicians may beef about being in the European Union but the benefits for higher education are unquestionable, says Olga Wojtas. The European summit in Florence this weekend is being overshadowed...
-
Straitjackets and business ties
J. R. Shackleton, below, and Richard Harris, right, join The THES debate to argue against the rigidity of inspection proposals in favour of flexibility. It is difficult to find reasoned dissent from...
-
Star of the big screen
Gail Vines meets Theresa Marteau, a health psychologist committed to exploring the consequences of giving people the information uncovered by genetic testing. Talk to Theresa Marteau about the "...
-
U-turn on the Budget
The Government is to reconsider the higher education Budget cuts announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer last November. In the first public acknowledgement that the Budget dealt too harshly with...