They're no mugs for diving
It is the lot of many students to wait on tables to make ends meet. But a team of Plymouth University divers found themselves in the murky waters of the city's Sutton Harbour after a waterfront cafe...
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They're no mugs for diving
It is the lot of many students to wait on tables to make ends meet. But a team of Plymouth University divers found themselves in the murky waters of the city's Sutton Harbour after a waterfront cafe...
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Decline in IT forces teaching job cuts
Australian institutions are downsizing as enrolments slide, writes Geoff Maslen Hundreds of academics have lost their jobs teaching information technology courses at Australia's universities after a...
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Appointments
The French Government has recognised a Thames Valley University professor's contribution to the country's culinary arts. David Foskett, an associate dean at TVU's London School of Tourism,...
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Overseas briefing
CanadaRight-to-die research haltedThe decision to shut down a controversial research project on assisted suicides has been criticised as a breach of academic freedom. The Canadian Association of...
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Payback time?
In your report ("UK graduates earn highest rate of return", 91茄子S , August 30), London School of Economics' Nick Barr says that "graduates earn an extra ?400,000 over a lifetime and therefore it is...
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When the geeks got brutal...
Brute Force
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingGENERAL SCIENCE- ? Superstition: Belief in the Age of ScienceBy Robert L. Park, professor emeritus of physics, University of Maryland. Princeton University Press, ?14.95. ISBN...
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Appointments
A former adviser to the World Health Organisation, Don Nutbeam, has been appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton. Currently academic provost at the University of Sydney, he will...
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Australian quality spread too thinly
Education Minister claims only 12 universities are needed to boost achievement, reports Geoff Maslen. Australia needs only 12 public comprehensive universities instead of the current 37, according to...
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What the pick of the crop means for the rest of the field
We look at the top performers on each measure and suggest what their success means for the sector's development. The Times Higher-QS World University Rankings are a composite measure in which six...
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Methodology: What the pick of the crop means for the rest of the field
We look at the top performers on each measure and suggest what their success means for the sector’s development.
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Published this week
ARTS AND DESIGN- Architecture by Birds and Insects: A Natural ArtBy Peggy Macnamara, associate professor, School of the Art Institute of ChicagoUniversity of Chicago Press, ?13.00ISBN 9780226500973A...
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Little for campus despite surplus
Australian higher education will receive an additional A$560 million (Pounds 229 million) in federal funding over the next five years, while the nation's working citizens have been promised tax cuts...
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A taxing proposal
Nicholas Barr says that if higher education is funded from general taxation, "the taxes of a hospital porter would pay for the degree of the old Etonian" ("MPs maul ministers' blueprint", 91茄子S, July...