Who's in who's out?
Oxford Brookes When staff in the vice-chancellor's office at Oxford Brookes University learnt of Janet Beer's appointment, they all read Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth , a title Professor Beer...
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Bristol opens career path to give teachers equal footing
University develops structure to offer teaching staff, like researchers, clear progression route, writes Tony Tysome. The status of academics who specialise in teaching in research-intensive...
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Bristol heart lecture
Coronary heart disease is the biggest single cause of death in the UK, causing one in five deaths in men and one in six in women; almost all of the deaths are due to a heart attack. A leading UK...
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Laurie Taylor Column
What is your degree worth to an employer? According to Anna Vignoles, a leading education economist, student tuition fees should be based on the worth of the degree to employers - The Times Higher,...
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'Smokers are subject to the sort of vilification that, in the past, usually heralded vicious oppression'
When Bob Dylan refused to "go down to Oxford Town", his scruples about the famous university there were understandable. For the subject of the song was Oxford, Mississippi, home of the state's...
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Leader: Don't leave staff at the mercy of the abusive few
On the one hand, more than 80 per cent of students say they are satisfied with the teaching they have received at university, according to the National Student Survey. On the other, 25 per cent of...
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'Proper' English is not a luxury 1
It is quite pathetic - although, alas, a sign of the times - to find someone holding a university chair in English language who takes fellow academics to task for their alleged views about English...
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'Proper' English is not a luxury 2
Jennifer Jenkins suggests that native English speakers should learn to communicate with Spaniards in "Spanish English". I have lived in France for four years. Should I be persuaded by Jenkins and now...
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'Proper' English is not a luxury 3
Jennifer Jenkins is worryingly confused. Toleration of varieties of English is one thing, a complete lack of critical judgment about suitability of language for different communicative purposes quite...
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Music is priceless
Anna Vignoles ("Surplus in arts may spur shakeout", September 7) believes there will soon be "too many" arts and humanities graduates - primarily because such subjects are less "valued" by employers...
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Integrity is enough
Colin Feltham's heartfelt plea for engagement by academics ("Why do academics fiddle as the world burns?" August 31) is, in the face of increasing bureaucratisation, justified. But Feltham seems to...
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Plane truth
Mathew Humphrey asks why academics still travel by air, given the rise of new virtual communication technologies ("Time to stop flying in the face of reason", September 7). These are no substitute...
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Releasing research 1
The article about publishers delaying access by journalists to research results ("We ought to get all findings out fast", August 31) neglected the viewpoint of a major interest group. Like nearly all...
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Releasing research 2
Have those complaining about the tyranny of research read their contracts? A usual academic contract specifies about 40 per cent of time to be spent on teaching, 40 per cent on research and the rest...
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Names aren't problem
Kevin McCarron ("You don't need to know a name to teach a student", August 31) is wrong to think memorising student names interferes with the ability to teach. Worthless staff development programmes...