'Ghost worker' dispute
A "GHOST worker", employed for five years without a contract and paid almost half the going rate for academically related staff, is locked in a dispute with the University of Wales Swansea. The...
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Professor on peace mission shot dead
JAPAN's foremost academic expert on the former Soviet Union has been shot dead. The United Nations observer mission of which he was part was ambushed by rebels unwilling to accept the peace process...
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Promotion prospects
LOUISE Casella, in her letter outlining Cardiff's research assessment exercise strategy (THES, July 18), points to the various career paths open to academics here. True, staff in Cardiff can move...
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Sydney sibling
In THES (June 26) an old photograph of the University of Sydney was wrongly attributed to the University of New South Wales. We are, of course, the original university of New South Wales and the two...
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Tooley put to the test
JAMES Tooley's Education Research - A Critique is a polemic masquerading as research, a triumph of inconsistency, incoherences and bad faith (THES, July 24). It is astonishing that the school...
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Transfers help take teams to top
CAN ANYONE explain to me what is wrong with an academic transfer market? Does anyone argue that the transfer market in football, which facilitates the rise of a handful of top clubs, should be...
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Transfers help take teams to top
EXTERNAL assessment of research in higher education (and indeed teaching and administration) is essential, but leaves much to be desired. Making the research assessment exercise fair, open and...
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Wellcome priorities
IT IS indeed welcome that the government's comprehensive spending review has released a much needed extra Pounds 600 million for research infrastructure in universities (THES, July 24). The influence...
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Don's Diary
Monday Back in berserkly Berkeley for six weeks of reading and writing at the Center for Studies in Higher Education, one of my favourite places.The sun ricochets off the white stone of Wheeler Hall...
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Goodwill eroded by public pay sacrifices
It will take some time to assess the impact of government spending plans for universities. Is it all smoke and mirrors or a push towards real change? Universities are not thought to be a priority...
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Service benefits everyone
Many universities have mission statements that commit the institution to community service as well as to teaching and research. It is not always clear what priority community service rates - in many...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an author who was accused of penning a novel of "scandalous notoriety" when...
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Angels on the verge of despair
Nursing's education revolution is exerting intolerable pressure on staff as they try to juggle studying in their spare-time with a full-time job, argues Jenny Hewison ANGS-1More and more nurses are...
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Strings to the bow
Conservatoires are teaching musicians how to spread their talents between a number of jobs in order to survive in a highly competitive world. Tony Tysome reports It is a concept with which Mozart,...
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Super models shame about the figures
They have the power to bring misery or joy to millions. After six interest rate rises in 15 months, it's been mainly the former. So have the academics on the Bank of England's Monetary Policy...