Dying for a good fry-up
Increasing evidence points to the link between diet and disease. But why are we not taking heed, asks Kay-Tee Khaw. The major health challenge in industrialised societies with ageing populations is...
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On a clear day you can see to the multiplex
The citizens of Oxford may soon see new bingo halls, bowling alleys and car parks among their dreaming spires. Lucy Hodges asks whether colleges keen to profit from their land are responsible. Oxford...
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Showdown over FE jobs
Ninety jobs are to go at Rotherham College of Arts and Technology following the failure of a recovery plan worked out last year. The majority of the redundancies are expected to be compulsory....
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Call for CUP boycott
A leading Harvard anthropologist is calling for top academics to boycott Cambridge University Press. Their move comes as Royal Anthropological Institute president Roland Littlewood and two more US...
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Who gets paid most
Vice chancellors and medics may dominate the top end of the pay tables but the highest paid academic in Britain is a faculty member at London Business School, who pulled in between Pounds 150,000 and...
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Fair's fair in a battle for votes
The past month has seen two bitter rows about education. The most prominent, the Battle of St Olave's, was a heady cocktail of selection in schools with a gripping subplot about hypocrisy and about...
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Don's Diary
FRIDAY. All-night technical preparations in London for our touring student production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which we are taking to the West Bank and Gaza. Unsettling arrival in Israel:...
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Fertile fields of ideas
Over the past decades, research into higher education has developed from a small collection of studies with a narrow pedagogical orientation into a more comprehensive field encompassing a large...
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When alpha is a non-starter
Between 1983 and 1985 I held an Economic and Social Research Council project grant - the first that I had ever applied for. Since that time my research has been funded by a variety of European...
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Glass ceiling? More like a brick wall
Robin Dunbar's arguments (Grey natter, THES, January 26), like those of Geoff Miller whom he cites, are persuasive. But they have a blindspot with regard to their implications for women, especially...
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Whistle blown on Russell referees
Just before Christmas a colleague from another university asked me to be one of his nominated referees in his application for promotion. Nothing unusual in this, I have acted in such a capacity on...
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Test bed of truly Euro science
Martin Daunton appears to have rewritten a bit of history in his glowing review of The origins of the Modern State in Europe, 13th to 18th centuries: economic systems and state finance edited by...
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Glass ceiling? More like a brick wall
Having failed in three attempts at promotion in the last 12 months (one internal and two external) I was arrested by the picture of the new honorary doctor of civil law, Howard Phelps, on the...
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Suffering students hit again
In proposing to introduce tuition fees, university bosses are passing on Government cuts to those least able to afford them - students. Students are already suffering, under-achieving and dropping...
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Benefits when east meets west
I am one of the many western environmental "experts" who has "jetted in" to Romania and Hungary in recent years. I share the concerns of colleagues in central and eastern Europe and the United...