Historic mission with a new attitude
The 'mechanic arts' colleges of the US are gearing up for the next century with the net, Tony Durham reports. They may have been founded to teach agriculture and the "mechanic arts", but the state...
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IT academics 'need top pay' to end a generation of skills shortages
Australia's universities face a serious loss of their IT academics to the private sector unless their salaries and resources are greatly improved, according to the Australian Computer Society. The...
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Books are the hook
ITP Business Press is encouraging lecturers to make its books required reading on their courses, with an offer of free online access to related backlist titles. Participating academics and students...
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Pole position: Annette Routledge's computer-art "Totem 1"
(Photograph) - Pole position: Annette Routledge's computer-art "Totem 1", shown at the final degree show, University of Brighton last week and now part of the Gamut exhibition curated by Sue Gollifer...
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Standardise penalties for cheats
Surely, both Gordon Pearson and Staffordshire University were in the wrong in their handling of the plagiarism cases (Whistleblowers and Opinion, THES, July 2)? It is right to argue that the role of...
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Standardise penalties for cheats
I congratulate Gordon Pearson for stating his strongly held views against recent cases of proven plagiarism. I also pay tribute to his courage and integrity. Like many academics, I fully support his...
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Standardise penalties for cheats
Mandatory expulsion is certainly one way of dealing with plagiarism. Another way, which both academics and students may consider fairer, and therefore more appropriate, is to assess the context of...
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Seeking redress
It was irritating to find myself misquoted in the article "Students reject complaints code" (THES, July 2). The consequence of the misquotation should not be a distortion of a debate of central...
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Oceans apart
Paul Ormerod (Letters, THES, July 2) is critical of our report on the almost complete disappearance of Britons interested in a career in university economics. Yes, in principle, we should be able to...
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Arguments of merit
Aristotle warned against importing standards of measurement where they do not belong. For good reason. Teaching - not least, higher education - is not commerce, but a vocation. To think otherwise is...
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Arguments of merit
To a very large extent, academic staff salaries are already performance related. Over the past 15 or 20 years, probation has become increasingly stringent; staff appraisal, research assessment...
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Arguments of merit
Peter Humphreys returns to the old chestnut of performance-related pay for academic staff. He appears unaware that, before his arrival in the sector, the last government imposed such a system on new...
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Arguments of merit
Peter Humphreys may well be right that we need "a pay structure that rewards merit", but PRP is not the answer. I have been on PRP for the past four years. Each year I get a small rise roughly in...
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Have grant, will travel
Australian government proposals for portable research scholarships have the academic community up in arms. Geoff Maslen reports. Acontroversial shake-up of Australia's research funding system will...
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Hip, hip, hooray
Two new techniques will improve the lives of those with hip replacements. Geoff Watts reports. Materials scientist John Metcalf uses an apt comparison to illustrate one of his projects. "You can...