Q&A with Alastair Ager
We speak to the director of the Institute of International Health and Development at Queen Margaret University
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#HEhustings: Tories, Labour, Lib Dems show off their party lines
The UK sector gathers to hear and debate the major parties’ poll positions on higher education
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News in brief – 12 March 2015
Gender biasHistory departments in dockConditions for female academics in some history departments “smack of the 1970s”, according to a new report. The Royal Historical Society research finds that an...
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Rise in teaching-only contracts
The proportion of part-time staff on teaching-only contracts is now more than 60 per cent after climbing almost 4 percentage points in a year, according to a report
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Guess who’s watching you now!
“Well done, Liverpool!”That was how Louise Bimpson, our corporate director of HR, reacted to the news that the University of Liverpool now requires every member of its academic staff to be observed...
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The week in higher education – 12 March 2015
The vice-chancellor of the University of Bolton has written to all staff to reassure them of the value of Bolton’s “development programme”, which will involve all 700 employees being put up in a...
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Strong ties are best defence
University terror inquiries flag the vital role of strong pastoral care and good tutoring in guarding against disengagement
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Salaries made simple
According to Sir Ian Diamond’s efficiencies report, many universities are moving towards “nuanced and responsive systems of pay and reward” (“Performance-related pay ‘is way forward’ ”, News, 26...
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Passing the baton
I was fascinated to learn David Eastwood’s thoughts on being a vice-chancellor, although like many, I suspect, of your musician readers, slightly doubtful about his allusion to sonata form (“Know the...
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Secret support
Hannah Arendt apparently said “goodbye to philosophy once and for all” and instead preferred “thinking without bannisters” (“A worldly thinker”, Features, 26 February). However, a bannister does...
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Open eyes to field skills
The loss of field skills and, in particular, identification skills, is an issue of deep concern that has been highlighted by select committees and reports by the Natural Environment Research Council...
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Flexibility? It’s already here
I was interested to read “Flexible study emerges as cross-party concern” (News, 5 March), but, sadly, my interest was more in the evident chasm between the understanding of politicians and what...
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Regulation regret
It is a great pity that once again a Universities UK working group has delivered a mouse.The report Quality, Equity, Sustainability: the future of higher education regulation by the UUK Regulation...
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Exams with merit
Why do medical faculties have such a problem with multiple choice questions? (“Campus Hunger Games”, Opinion, 5 March).A chicken pecking randomly at four possible answers will score 25 per cent on...