On the move
The University of the West of England has appointed Ian Apperley, formerly adviser to Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, and the London Assembly, as its new human resources director. Ka Ho Mok,...
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News in brief
Ucea appointments Bill Wakeham, vice-chancellor of Southampton University, will take over as chair of the University and Colleges Employers Association in September. He succeeds Alasdair Smith, out...
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Profile: Celia Brackenridge
When Celia Brackenridge decided in the sixth form to go to PE college rather than university, she was summoned to see her aghast headmistress. She had taken A levels in music, biology and geography,...
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Laurie Taylor Column
The University of Poppleton From: The Vice-Chancellor and President To: All Academic and Related Staff Subject: Birmingham As you may be aware from newspaper reports, the Uni­ver­sity...
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto
As I now spend most of my time in the US, and see Britain only intermittently, I can monitor changes in British society with judgment unstaled by custom. It is like being a chronic Rip van Winkle,...
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Leader: We must forge business links
All academics know that the way to the top is to publish highly cited papers in the most prestigious journals. In some subjects, such as history, a brilliant book might do instead. And in some newer...
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Leader: Rank and defile?
Have league tables so corroded the university system that their value no longer compensates for their malign influence? That is the view taken by some institutions in the US — which have decided to...
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Islamic studies need thought
All of us who teach Islamic studies in British universities will welcome the promised injection of £1 million and the subject’s designation as one of “strategic importance” (“‘Gaps’ in Islam studies...
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Boycott fallout 1
The obituary of Baruch Kimmerling has just appeared in The Times . No one was a greater critic of the Israeli governmental policy toward the Palestinians, yet by some twist of logic the boycott...
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Boycott fallout 2
Andrew Morgan charges the Provisional Congress Business Committee (PCBC) with “incompetence” and “gross manipulation” of the agenda of the inaugural University and College Union congress (Letters,...
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Boycott fallout 3
Your article “Israel critic ­voted out” (June 15) strongly implies that De Paul University denied Norman Finkelstein tenure because of his criticism of Israel. This mis­charac­...
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Boycott fallout 4
The decision of the University and College Union congress to instigate a national debate on the question of whether it would be appropriate to boycott Israeli universities is condemned as an attack...
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Laments for the HEA 1
The chief executive of the Higher Education Academy says that a reduction from 30 to 15 in the total membership of the council and a reduction from 16 to four in the elected representatives of...
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Laments for the HEA 2
Like Philip Burgess and Paul Hudson, I have been an ­elected member of the councils of both the Institute of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education and the Higher Education Academy and,...
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Undeserved slings
The reviewer of my book Studying Shakespeare on Film has almost entirely mis­understood or misrepresented its content (Special Textbook guide, May 25). Catherine Richardson argues that the...