Goodbye to the RAE ... and hello to the REF
On any impartial assessment, the research assessment exercise has been a success. Although it was born in 1986 in the white heat of cuts, it matured in a more benign climate for higher education...
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Staff to receive careers advice
The University of Central Lancashire is extending its student careers advice service to offer jobs guidance to its own staff. Ian Rankin, the head of the careers service, was at pains to reassure The...
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Leicester cuts its take of consultancy fees
Academics may charge more for their outside work - and keep a greater share of the income. Zoe Corbyn reports. Academics at Leicester University will be allowed to keep a higher proportion of their...
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Who got that job?
John Vaughan, Director, Edge Hill Business School, Edge Hill University. Job advertised in The Times Higher , March 16, 2007 There is a buzz at Edge Hill University that makes John Vaughan confident...
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Would you credit it?
"New allegations of plagiarism by senior academic staff" - The Times Higher, November 23
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Alan Ryan - 'No governance device will work ..
'No governance device will work when people don't pay sufficient attention and when they defer to the executive'. The sentiment that Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring reportedly expressed whenever...
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Oxford ignores alumni, claims Shadow Chancellor
He is one of Oxford's most high-profile graduates and expects one day to control the purse strings of Government, yet George Osborne says his main contact with his alma mater is through a magazine...
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On the subject of research .. 1
One danger with any measurement is that the activity of measurement influences the activity being measured. One potential source of such influence in the proposed Higher Education Funding Council for...
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On the subject of research .. 2
It has been suggested that citations should be counted over five years or ten years, but it should be longer. It can take a year between submission and publication in quality journals. A paper that...
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On the subject of research .. 3
If you are compiling a list of problems and injustices relating to RAE 2008, may I offer the following: I have a paper in the January 2001 issue of a journal that is ineligible for entry because it...
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On the subject of research .. 4
Hefce says that "it will be reasonable to measure relative levels of excellence on a common basis once normalisation by field has been performed". This assumes the instigation of a metrics-based RAE...
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A complex business
The story on Amanda Goodall's research ("Scholar v-cs score best", October 26), Terence Keeley's opinion article ("Emmanuel lights way on self-governance", October 19) and the story on John Hood's...
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Mind your language 1
Bruce Macfarlane ("Teaching Matters", November 23) is dead right in saying that lecturing is not the same as teaching. The Open University did away with lecturing more than 30 years ago but has still...
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Mind your language 2
The problem with Michael Bulley's attack on linguistics ("Chomskyans chase down a blind alley", November 16) comes at the end of the second paragraph. It's the phrase "non-specialist". Linguistics...
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Mind your language 3
It is well known that in 1866 the Linguistic Society of Paris declared that it wanted to hear nothing more about the origin of language. Michael Bulley wants to go further and hear nothing more about...