Brussels, Jul 2006 Full text of Document 11979/06 Suite of documents 11979/06 No. prev. doc.: 11826/06 RECH 193 ATO 82 COMPET 203 CODEC 783 + COR 1 No. Cion prop.: 11142/06 RECH 181 ATO 74 COMPET 188...
" Struggle to fill v-c job vacancies " - The Times Higher, July 21 University of Poppleton Vice-Chancellor and President Following the retirement of the current vice-chancellor for overwhelming...
There appears to be a growing consensus (among the politicians, at least) that the time has come for a reappraisal of the drive to widen participation in higher education. For Labour, Bill Rammell,...
Vice-chancellors insist that they will not use scholarship and bursary funds to do deals in clearing if recruitment is poor, but that is not the impression given to prospective students at all...
Tim Birkhead's column "The UK's great £19.5m lottery" (Working Knowledge, July 21) has implications beyond the dishing out of grant funding. It resonates with recent articles and letters about the...
If Tim Birkhead is worried about the waste involved in failed grant proposals now, he had better hope that the funding councils don't include research grant income in a metrics-based system. One...
A simple analogy shows why the use of metrics is a madder idea than the philosophically and methodologically fraudulent research assessment exercise, which disfigures and corrupts higher education in...
It was with some dismay that I read Geoffrey Copland's article about the future of industrial relations (Opinion, July 21). The national bargaining arrangements are in place to ensure that staff in...
I was amused by how Niall Mackay's letter (July 14) proved Susan Bassnett's argument on misunderstandings about university finances (Working Knowledge, July 7). With one third of tuition fees to be...
The report "Struggle to fill v-c job vacancies" (July 21) raises two issues. The first is that the emphasis of the new recruitment focus appears to be whether vice-chancellors can cope with financial...
The articles "Postgraduates told: those who can, teach" and "Juggling staff have crisis of identity" (July 7) both point out the inadequacy of the research PhD as preparation for an academic career....
Reliance on PhD students to deliver undergraduate tutorials and seminars has - particularly in the US - enabled undergraduate expansion while keeping tuition fees under control ("PhDs told to avoid...
Your story about access and drop-out rates based on the Higher Education Funding Council for England performance indicators ("The hits and the misses", July 21) gives a very negative picture of...
So, despite the best efforts of those of us who engage in "widening participation" events, access to university remains stubbornly inegalitarian ("Access initiatives reach an impasse", July 21). Here...
The article "Childcare costs eat deeply into pay packet" (July 7) mentioned the salary sacrifice scheme designed to help meet the costs of childcare. Unfortunately, I work for a Catholic college that...