Letters
REF non-submission and teaching momentsI find the University of Leicester’s decision to review the contracts of staff not submitted for assessment in the forthcoming research excellence framework...
REF non-submission and teaching momentsI find the University of Leicester’s decision to review the contracts of staff not submitted for assessment in the forthcoming research excellence framework...
Professorial position: Liverpool, think againWe recently heard that the University of Liverpool intends to issue dismissal notices to 2,803 “non-academic” staff – 54 per cent of the institution’s...
G. R. Evans describes the Schneider-Ross report on Cambridge's equality audit as damning (Letters, THES, February 2). Yes, the report pulls no punches in identifying weaknesses and issues that need...
The report of the Schneider-Ross consultants who were brought in to look at Cambridge's equal opportunities performance unaccountably left out the students altogether (Soapbox, THES, January 26). "If...
Hopeless contradictions in funding council policy point to the conflicting demands of government pressure, argues G. R. Evans. Does funding council policy reveal a dangerous enslavement to government...
You launch your debate on peer review with the award of research grants. But the "fixers" are also at work at the heart of the increasingly bitter Cambridge promotions crisis. We have partly reformed...
G. R. Evans speaks up for the academic freedoms of the individual. I work in an institution where any of the academic staff can stand up and make a speech in the university's "parliament", which is...
BL helps Amazon storm antiquarian book market The online retailer Amazon has dragged the buying and selling of rare and out-of-print books into the dotcom age by acquiring the rights to the British...
BL helps Amazon storm antiquarian book market The online retailer Amazon has dragged the buying and selling of rare and out-of-print books into the dotcom age by acquiring the rights to the British...
Calling Academia to Account
The High Court decision in the Institute of Dentistry case puts responsibility on the shoulders of individuals as well as the committees they form, G. R. Evans says. Up to now it has been been...