Laurie Taylor column
To:the University of Poppleton. From: the office of the vice-chancellor. Subject: new year's message. Dear member of academic staff, May I begin by wishing each and every one of you a happy and...
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Leader: Openness is the best defence for probity
The Association of University Teachers has picked a good issue - the ethics of commercial sponsorship - on which their official candidate for general secretary can campaign. Codes of ethics in public...
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Leader: 2002: the dream is fine but what of the means?
This could be a momentous year for universities and colleges. Expansion is back, and there is real enthusiasm both for sustaining universities' research and for at last cracking the grip of the...
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Letter: Reward excellence 1
The Higher Education Funding Council for England's decision to use the results of this year's research assessment exercise to reward the full range of research success is a sound investment ( THES ,...
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Letter: Reward excellence 2
A recent paper circulated in the history faculty with a digest of the submission figures that got the faculty its 5* bears out the correctness of press rumours that Cambridge came top only by putting...
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Letter: Reward excellence 3
I am struck by the low number of research submissions, relative to other university subjects, for area studies of regions such as the Americas, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Given their...
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Letter: Reward excellence 4
In my department, a grade 5 was achieved by excluding some staff from the RAE submission, replacing others with people from Russia and Eastern Europe and by making a third of staff "teaching only"....
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Letter: High cost of less well-prepared
Universities are busy preparing responses to the Higher Education Funding Council's consultation on student supply and demand for the January 25 deadline. Key issues are whether to retain control on...
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Letter: Fractional errors 1
The short answer to Dick Leigh's letter ( THES , December 21/28) is that the Teachers' Superannuation Scheme is written with age 60 as the normal retirement age whereas the Universities...
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Letter: Fractional Errors 2
H. C. S. Ferguson misunderstands (Letters, THES December 14). The possible changes to the USS on which I and some colleagues on its trustee board have consulted members, if implemented for any period...
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Letter: Personal effects
Laura Spence was reportedly devastated when details of her rejected application to Oxford University were publicised. Similarly, the Keevil family are upset at the effect that publicity surrounding...
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Letter: Religious intolerance
When Sir Harry Kroto (100 Years of the Nobel, THES , December 21/28) wishes to be virulent about people who believe in their country and their God, he should take care to be informed about the public...
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Letter: That 'halo' effect
As psychologists, we believe that if students have a positive personal and/or social view of the lecturer, this may lead to more positive ratings irrespective of teaching effectiveness (Soapbox, THES...
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Athenaeum opens doors to women The first female academics have joined the Athenaeum Club in London. Oxford academic Baroness Greenfield, Rabbi Julia Neuberger and author Victoria Glendinning are...
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From today's UK papers
Ex-manderin frets over education cash The former senior civil servant who headed the education department when Labour came to power in 1997 yesterday expressed concern that education had been starved...