A line in the sand
Teesside University recently announced that all professors who are not in management roles will have to reapply for their jobs (“University tells entire professoriate to reapply for their jobs”, News...
Teesside University recently announced that all professors who are not in management roles will have to reapply for their jobs (“University tells entire professoriate to reapply for their jobs”, News...
Even academics in ‘safe’ positions are feeling insecure
Poor materials, disengaged students and little time or incentive to prepare dishearten one casualised academic
A study of UK academics has found that research policy is causing restless nights
Thank-you for publishing our letter on the summer schools initiative (Letters, THES, September 29). For the record, the (recently established) Institute for Policy Studies in Education is not...
There may be more women on campus today, but a stark gender divide persists, says Melanie Newman
In response to Roger Lindsay (Letters, THES , July 26), we acknowledge that a marker's subject expertise might well be expected to affect assessment. However, in our study we found little evidence to...
Frank Furedi's criticism of our research on academic assessment practice (Why I..., THES , July 5) misses a fundamental point: students expect a level of fairness and parity in the assessment of...
As a participant in the essay-marking study by Becky Francis, Barbara Read and Jocelyn Robson (Letters, THES , July 19), I do not agree that the data justify their concern that a "laissez-faire...
The grades students receive for their essays are "a lottery", say researchers in a study of universities' marking standards. Just half of tutors agreed on a mark for an essay while others took wildly...
We write as academics to express our profound disquiet at what is happening at London Metropolitan University. We are incredulous at vice-chancellor Brian Roper's statement that he did not intend to...
Middle-class students were reportedly recruited to fill empty places in summer schools because too few students from under-represented groups "met the criteria" ("Poor fail to fill access places",...