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  1. A mismanaged performance? 1

    Performance-management systems stifle flexibility, destroy goodwill and sap the commitment of employees. At least, that's the message that comes through in Frank Furedi's discussion of performance...

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  2. A mismanaged performance? 2

    Your report "Staff 'swotted' by managers" and Frank Furedi's column (April 13) express universal concerns about the growth in managerialism in universities, particularly how it undermines...

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  3. A mismanaged performance? 3

    There are two good practical reasons for objecting to the consumerisation, marketisation and managerialisation of higher education. One is to be found in the work of the philosopher Alasdair...

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  4. $64,000 difference

    Your article on fundraising in American universities (Features, April 6) was welcome, but it is a shame that the US examples were not contrasted with some from the UK. At least two factors...

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  5. A little hissed off

    The past two issues of The Times Higher have been particularly alarming for ophiophobics, and here have nearly caused tea-dropping disasters. Would you please desist? Richard Hensley Centre for...

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  6. Theistic stewardship

    Your reviewer Anthony Freeman more than once misses the point in his review of my book Creation, Evolution and Meaning (Books, April 6). Thus the quotation from the final chapter, which he suggests...

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  7. Crisis, what crisis?

    I'm not sure there is a crisis in the status of public intellectuals given, for example, the number of academic historians involved with blockbuster TV series ("Academics told to push intellectual...

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  8. Public vs private 1

    Steve Smith implies that staff transferred from Exeter University to Into University Partnerships will suffer no disadvantage (Opinion, April 13). This beggars belief. There may be an argument that...

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  9. Public vs private 2

    How refreshing it is to read a vice-chancellor accepting that an outsourcing activity is purely market-driven, without a single academic argument presented for or against the decision. Steve Smith is...

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  10. Public vs private 3

    Bill Rammell is right that "foreign recruits (are) no threat to quality" as your headline has it (April 6), but only if they get the right preparation for a UK university education. It is vital that...

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  11. Dr Dai Llemmer

    I returned from an Engineering and Science Research Council interactive workshop on demand management at the University of Peterborough's Capri campus this morning to find the following anonymous...

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  12. 'I'm right.' 'You're not'

    The point of many public debates initiated in the media is not enlightenment but controversy. A. C. Grayling deplores the rise of strife and unconstructive wrangling There is a rich and flourishing...

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  13. Passport to a safer field trip

    A British Standard is published next week laying out guidelines for 'good practice' in planning and safety management for fieldwork overseas. Nick Smith examines the implications for all involved It...

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  14. Adapted for the big screen

    Academics from across the globe exchanged ideas about modern fiction in a British Council-organised video conference. Harriet Swain got a close-up According to the strict timetable, we should have...

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