Hot lecturers and nasty ideologues
Stephen Phillips reports on sinister US student feedback websites In November, ten University of Texas lecturers found themselves on a "Professor Watch List". Academic blacklists are not unheard of...
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Is your pension funding this?
Chris Bunting looks at ethical issues arising from institutional investments If you see a chain smoker coughing their lungs out on the street, rub your hands in glee. If you read a newspaper report...
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Iraq war, chips and chocolate laxatives
Is western political correctness in danger of turning human rights into yet another instrument of power? It's time to stand up for what we believe, argues Slavoj Žižek. Critiques of the notion of...
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Don't underestimate managers' ability to treat you as an idiot
Frank Furedi takes a Savage's-eye view of staff development. Increasingly, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World provides the script for the ambitious university manager. Communication is framed by...
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It's not what Les says that counts...
... his hands may be more revealing. Psychologist Geoffrey Beattie discusses how Big Brother offers unique insights into the way non-verbal behaviour can betray hidden thoughts The reality TV show...
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Hot lecturers and nasty ideologues
Stephen Phillips reports on sinister US student feedback websites In November, ten University of Texas lecturers found themselves on a "Professor Watch List". Academic blacklists are not unheard of...
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Is your pension funding this?
Chris Bunting looks at ethical issues arising from institutional investments If you see a chain smoker coughing their lungs out on the street, rub your hands in glee. If you read a newspaper report...
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Helping the able to join the elite 1
Robert Stevens (Soapbox, THES , January 16) names Imperial College and Thames Valley University as exemplars of a feared two-tier system and elitism. An unfortunate choice, perhaps, in the light of...
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Helping the able to join the elite 2
Chemical engineers must be pleased that a professor of strategic management compares their profession to plumbing (Letters, THES , January 23). With this level of understanding of engineering, was...
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Helping the able to join the elite 3
Why not a plumbing degree? Because it would confuse plumbers with heating engineers. A domestic plumber's main skill is to make waterproof joints, avoid airlocks and get a pipe across a building...
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Helping the able to join the elite 4
It is the smug, well-established universities that deserve the epithet "Mickey Mouse" ("Do they deserve to be degrees?", THES , January 23). In response to government pressure for change they failed...
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Cavity in staff supply 1
Dental schools, like medical schools at UK universities, are struggling to recruit and retain teachers ("Lack of medical lecturers threatens NHS salvation", THES , January 16). This is against a...
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Cavity in staff supply 2
Student health services risk serious underfunding as the new general practitioner contract stands. Our work, caring for young adults, often away from home for the first time, is not fully recognised...
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Global harming
In his review of Michael Albert's Parecon: Life After Capitalism (Books, THES , January 23) Paul Ormerod trots out facile shibboleths that have been intoned by corporate apparatchiks for the past 30...
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Mind own business
Why is it that while we at business schools teach management, credit control, budgeting and how to run successful commercial enterprises, most universities are like the proverbial cobbler's children...