Times Higher Education - This edition

Here you can find all the articles from this week's magazine

NEWS

Roper is to blame for fiasco, but London Met’s board bears responsibility

20 November 2009

Report into overpayments to university finds top officials were aware of problems but took no action. Rebecca Attwood reports

Gillies to lead London Met

19 November 2009

Former head of City named vice-chancellor. Rebecca Attwood reports

Cost is the big deterrent for would-be students

19 November 2009
Another fallen leader: Imperial's rector exits

19 November 2009
Prostitution did not finance Belle de Jour's PhD

19 November 2009
Putting the science back into fiction

19 November 2009
From where I sit: Smarting Italians look for change

19 November 2009
You're hired? Apprenticeship degree mooted

19 November 2009
'Constipated' pitches about being 14th best fail to hit the mark

19 November 2009
Shared space - good for collaboration or too noisy?

19 November 2009
Fee speech

19 November 2009
Postgraduate focus is likely future for Cambridge

19 November 2009
News in brief

19 November 2009
Engage with quality assurance or face state takeover, scholars told

19 November 2009

Cash-for-quality link could be 'damaging'

19 November 2009
Happiness research makes academics rather unhappy

19 November 2009
Big thinking wins big gifts

19 November 2009
'Reform will be very difficult, but it is the only way to go'

19 November 2009
The week in higher education

19 November 2009
Odds and quads

19 November 2009
Overseas briefing

19 November 2009
Specialisation is th e way forward, says Bath v-c

19 November 2009
Funding cuts to force job losses at Bristol and Manchester Met

19 November 2009
Oxford and Cambridge are head and shoulders above the rest, report says

19 November 2009
World in motion: 20 November 2009

19 November 2009

FEATURES

Do you want to be in my gang?

19 November 2009

Some say mission groups help air vital issues collegially, but others think they selfishly expose the sector to divide-and-rule tactics. Melanie Newman looks at the group dynamics

Off Piste: Reinventing the past

19 November 2009

We bring home mementoes because we want a tangible memory of a time or place. Ulrike Zitzlsperger ponders souvenirs and how they reshape history

In the heavens, as it is on Earth

19 November 2009

OPINIONS AND LEADERS

Ode to a Promethean: the late starter whose star burnt brightest

19 November 2009

Keats, the upstart who overcame all the odds to join the pantheon of literary greats, is an inspiration to Robert Mighall

Leader: Sing with one voice to be heard

19 November 2009

Competing mission groups risk undermining the message that all universities are valuable and deserve continued support

Daytime TV: Of Hell and hounds

19 November 2009
It's time to set fees free

19 November 2009

It's dangerous to ignore it

19 November 2009

PEOPLE

Building blocks

19 November 2009

Paul Thompson's first priority as the head of the Royal College of Art will be to ensure a smooth move to a new campus

Roger Kain, deputy vice-chancellor for research and knowledge transfer at the University of Exeter, has been named dean and chief executive at the University of London's School of Advanced Study. Professor Kain is an expert on the history...

Jerry Morris, 1910-2009

19 November 2009

LAURIE

Is Piercemüller Beau de Jour?

19 November 2009

Urgent attempts are being made to contact Dr Piercemüller of our Department of Media and Cultural Studies following allegations in a Sunday newspaper that he is the author of the explicit blog depicting the adventures of an elderly academic...

LETTERS

Flawed Trac delivers only garbage

19 November 2009

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills patently believes its own business-derived propaganda ("FEC scrutinised as deficit lingers", 12 November).

Emperor's new impact 1

19 November 2009

It is something of a relief that an academic as eminent as Vernon Bogdanor is willing to question the link between good universities and economic growth ("Misguided philistines in a relationship that is doomed to failure", 12 November)....