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LANCASTER Nazi "euthanasia" programmes and the Third Reich's medical experiments are among the specialist interests of Suzanne Ost, who has joined Lancaster University as senior law lecturer. Dr Ost...
LANCASTER Nazi "euthanasia" programmes and the Third Reich's medical experiments are among the specialist interests of Suzanne Ost, who has joined Lancaster University as senior law lecturer. Dr Ost...
I have to return once again to the vexed question of pigeonholes. Here is a brief list of some current issues. 1. People putting their stuff in other people's pigeonholes If you feel that an item in...
Gossip has been raging like a bushfire this week round the Harrow campus where my school is based. Someone swears they saw Tom the electrician dancing on a table with Liz from illustration. Mark the...
The World University Rankings 2007 are online here If higher education were held in the same national regard as sport, the UK would be euphoric about the performance of its universities in our world...
The Times Higher has done a great job in highlighting what has been happening with the previously unmentionable underbelly of the research assessment exercise process ("Exclusions from RAE see steep...
It is sad, but perhaps not surprising that in a desperate search for the holy grail of top research assessment exercise ratings some universities are employing "phantom" staff ("Paid to be on RAE...
You are trying too hard to pump up the issue of research assessment exercise exclusion. Of course some people are having a bad experience and some universities are being silly, but the statistics you...
Take a look at the web home pages of a few US academics and you will see they typically offer a more varied and interesting set of assessments than is the case in the UK ("Inherently frail - the...
Derek Rowntree has a point (Letters, November 2): it is undoubtedly useful (to car owners) to receive a comprehensive report following a series of basic checks. But if a student's degree is worth...
Universities condone or even encourage students to binge drink, and it is time they put their students' unions and halls of residence in order. After a month at university, my non-drinking son...
Alan Ryan is quite right that no amount of tinkering with current admissions procedures would "alter the state/private balance of the intake - let alone their class background" (Letters, November 2...
Jim Butcher is right on two counts to complain about the way "sustainable literacy" is being promoted in higher education ("Keep the green moral agenda off campus", October 19). The first count he...
Correspondents targeting Universities UK and the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (Letters, October 26) fail to understand the purpose of the higher education employers' review of...
The detail from Michelangelo's School of Athens above the caption "Aristotle: posited the existence of a sixth sense" (Books, November 2) shows not Aristotle, but Plato pointing upwards to his realm...
I have been a target of workplace bullying in the university where I work. I have been so ill with stress that I have taken time off work. When I returned I was ignored by colleagues, my grievance...