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Academics must help shape RAE replacement to ensure measures, especially bibliometrics, foster trust and quality, says Eric Thomas. In December 2006, the Government announced that a new framework for...
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Apprenticeships could be an irresistible pitch
If more teenagers learnt about the benefits of the vocational route, they might quit the university path, argues Terry Watts. Many youngsters take it for granted that they will go to university. But...
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Teaching matters: Credit where it's due
Far from being self-interested consumers, today's students engage with and shape a dynamically evolving academe, David Watson writes in the first of a series examining issues from the teaching front...
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Lead researchers to get management training
Cambridge scheme aims to provide staff with knowhow to run teams and raise funding. Rebecca Attwood reports. A pioneering training scheme designed to prepare academics for the demands of running...
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UCU in localised pay row
The University and College Union is in formal dispute at Portsmouth University over plans to introduce performance-related pay. The row centres on the detailed introduction of the historic 2004 "...
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Who's in, who's out? Lancaster
LANCASTER Nazi "euthanasia" programmes and the Third Reich's medical experiments are among the specialist interests of Suzanne Ost, who has joined Lancaster University as senior law lecturer. Dr Ost...
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Update on pigeonhole-related issues
I have to return once again to the vexed question of pigeonholes. Here is a brief list of some current issues. 1. People putting their stuff in other people's pigeonholes If you feel that an item in...
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Sally Feldman
Gossip has been raging like a bushfire this week round the Harrow campus where my school is based. Someone swears they saw Tom the electrician dancing on a table with Liz from illustration. Mark the...
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Leader: Olympian feats and Lilliputian resources
The World University Rankings 2007 are online here If higher education were held in the same national regard as sport, the UK would be euphoric about the performance of its universities in our world...
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Research must fight status quo 1
The Times Higher has done a great job in highlighting what has been happening with the previously unmentionable underbelly of the research assessment exercise process ("Exclusions from RAE see steep...
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Research must fight status quo 2
It is sad, but perhaps not surprising that in a desperate search for the holy grail of top research assessment exercise ratings some universities are employing "phantom" staff ("Paid to be on RAE...
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Research must fight status quo 3
You are trying too hard to pump up the issue of research assessment exercise exclusion. Of course some people are having a bad experience and some universities are being silly, but the statistics you...
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Be fair or be flexible 1
Take a look at the web home pages of a few US academics and you will see they typically offer a more varied and interesting set of assessments than is the case in the UK ("Inherently frail - the...
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Be fair or be flexible 2
Derek Rowntree has a point (Letters, November 2): it is undoubtedly useful (to car owners) to receive a comprehensive report following a series of basic checks. But if a student's degree is worth...
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Degrees in drinking 1
Universities condone or even encourage students to binge drink, and it is time they put their students' unions and halls of residence in order. After a month at university, my non-drinking son...