Peep's Diary
Simplicity itself So the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills has released a "simplification plan" setting out what it is doing to "lift the burden" of unnecessary bureaucracy across...
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Self-improvers deserve goodwill from ministers
Few Government plans in any area of policy can have met such a unanimous chorus of disapproval as the scheme to stop funding students taking a second degree at a level they have already attained (...
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Consuming passion
Frank Furedi's predictable rant, this time against "student-centred policies", is yet again ill informed. A recent international study of the two best teaching departments in each of ten of the world...
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Undervalued, not overqualified
In my Society for Research into Higher Education conference paper on reshaping the academic workforce, I wanted to draw attention to the thousands of teaching and research academic staff with a PhD...
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US medical students say 'no' to firms' free lunches
Drugs companies have long courted US physicians with 'educational' lectures, meals and gifts. But trainee doctors increasingly spurn such offers, writes Jon Marcus. To American medical students...
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Undervalued, not overqualified
The inconvenient truth omitted from your report on the rise of teaching-only posts ("Lecturers with PhDs overqualified for job", December 14) is that PhD programmes do not normally teach candidates...
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Consuming passion
Frank Furedi mistakes the 1994 Group's willingness to discuss and debate the growing effects of market forces in the sector as a "proposal to treat undergraduates as consumers" (Opinion, December 14...
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McBoo-hoo to you
Your report of the Dundee study that suggests that Wales was not "competing equally" in the 2001 research assessment exercise ("Wales saved from £14m funding hole", December 14) strikes a...
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Undervalued, not overqualified
In my discipline of psychology, the relevance of empirical engagement and scholarship to high-quality teaching would not be questioned. Given this, it is imperative for all teachers in higher...
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Funding changes defy the workings of physics
Cuts in the STFC delivery plan threaten core subjects and diminish the UK's international impact, says Ken Pounds. The bad news started to leak out in the weeks after the latest science budget...
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McBoo-hoo to you
I have to admit some amusement at the complaints of Scottish universities about inadequate funding and the risk of slipping behind England ("Scotland urged to debate fees", December 7). This mood of...
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Who got that job?
Alia Brahimi Research associate, Oxford Leverhulme programme on the changing character of war, department of politics and international relations, Oxford University Job advertised in The Times Higher...
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World Encompassed
LAHORE UNIVERSITY SIX: CHARGES DROPPED Charges against four Pakistani professors and two students accused of chalking graffiti on a wall have been dropped. The six from Lahore University of...
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Holocaust tale that's also story of coming back to life
Jean-Marc Dreyfus lecturer, Holocaust Studies, Manchester University. When two young men met in Auschwitz, they did not know they would survive the horrors of the Nazi concentration camp and begin a...
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Number of top earners doubles
A quarter of male academics - but just 9 per cent of women - are paid more than £50K. Melanie Newman reports.The number of academic staff earning more than £50,000 a year has doubled in five years,...