Liberation for the big names
The government department at Essex has been able to maintain, and even expand, numbers of full-time academic staff, according to Joe Foweraker, departmental head. But at the same time it has been...
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Chairs
GRESHAM COLLEGE. The following appointments commenced on September 1: Tom Cannon, chief executive of Management Charter Initiative, Mercers' School Memorial professor of commerce; Colin Pillinger,...
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When assessors move in
In the first four months of this year, Mike Kelly, head of social sciences at Greenwich University, spent up to 80 per cent of his working time concentrating on both the research and teaching...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL Charities Professor B. Wood and Dr D. Lewis-Jones, Pounds 98,988 from Nuffield Hospitals (senior demonstrators 1995/96); Drs M. Zuzel and R. Theakston, Pounds 62,371 from...
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Too many checks strike the wrong balance
John Macklin, director of the research school at Leeds University, has spent a huge amount of time since March 1995 on the teaching quality and research assessment exercises. He handed in the self-...
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Honorary degrees
BRUNEL UNIVERSITY DSc: Ivo Babuska, research professor at the Texas institution for computational and applied mathematics, University of Texas at Austin. DUniv: Gordon Brown, privy councillor and...
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Pension pays, Essex profits
Universities are juggling staff to get dynamic deals. Lucy Hodges talks to two men who like a break with tradition. Bernard Ready was chief research officer in the department of chemistry at Essex...
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How to read the signposts
Mark Nye analyses the data on degree course results. Students' gender, age, mode of study, ethnicity and subject area all appear to have a influence on their class of degree. Recent figures from the...
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Bridge across the skills gap
Richard Latimer, Barry Lee, Margaret Noble and Penny Wolff describe how they devised a guide on how to develop a competence-based degree. After the age of 16 there is no coherent, credit-based,...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a book that introduced us all to the butterfly effect: "Up in the mountains, he knew, the ants changed with the season. Bees hovered and darted in a dynamical buzz....
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Tales from the Medway
Linden West talks to adult learners about the problems they face. It is a cliche that higher education has changed and will continue to do so, rapidly. Many of the changes were desirable and overdue...
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Ten months' work, two months on a P45
Aged 39, Annie Callaghan is a native French speaker employed on a part-time contract to teach French at the University of Essex. She is described as a teaching fellow and has worked this way for...
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Survival tactics
Geoffrey Talbot examines the pros and cons of opting out of occupational pension schemes. When your vice chancellor chooses to opt out into a personal pension, start worrying. Presently, managers and...
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Ranks swell in army of casually employed
Lucy Hodges takes a look at universities' reliance on part-time lecturers in a THES supplement on the changing profile of academic staff and students. During the 1990s a growing army of casual staff...
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Letters for publication in The THES
Letters for publication in The THES should arrive by Tuesday morning. Letters should be double-spaced, written on one side of the paper and as short as possible. The editor reserves the right to...