Who's in, Who's out? - Hertfordshire
Astronomer and stellar astrophysicist Janet Drew has swapped Imperial College, London, for Hertfordshire University this month, taking up a chair in its Centre for Astrophysics Research. Professor...
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Bolton fitness initiative gets staff back to work
Stress management programme based on physical activity has halved sick days. Melanie Newman reports. A stress management programme based on promoting physical fitness among staff has dramatically...
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Degree details urged
Plans for a radical overhaul of the degree classification system have been shelved by the group set up to review the way student achievement is recorded. Instead of scrapping the current system,...
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Positive advice
Do come in, Doctor Millmoss. Welcome to the Arts and Humanities Research Council. You wanted to know the result of your research proposal? That's right. Perhaps you'd like to remind members of the...
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Leader: Missing out on a first-class opportunity
It is hard not to feel sorry for the authors of the Burgess report. Asked to address a perceived problem with the degree classification system, they duly did so - only for their proposals to be...
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Let's get research basics right 1
The research councils' proposal that academics justify their work in economic terms ("Research must show pay-off", October 12) should alarm all those who believe in the Haldane principle under which...
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Working hypotheses 1
There is a certain kind of infuriating manager you meet occasionally who is always complaining about staff who complain. Susan Bassnett's point about overworking lecturers who need to get a life ("...
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Divided we fall 1
The University and College Union appears to tie itself in knots unnecessarily over the proposed national pay structures ("UCU fears employer bid to block action over pay", October 12). First, this is...
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Pseudo's corner
Your article on Steven Pinker and his latest book appears somewhat in thrall to his popular status ("Reality check", October 12). Taking his opinion as fact is a disservice to what is a set of...
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A bad business
How appropriate that Hertfordshire University, previously distinguished by the size of its vice-chancellors' salaries, can have its academic quality verified by the argument advanced by Tim Wilson ("...
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Let's get research basics right 2
The research assessment exercise has taken a few steps forward and a few steps back, ("All work to be counted in RAE evaluation", October 12). In evaluating and rewarding the research performance of...
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Let's get research basics right 3
The proposed system for measuring research output might work for the sciences. For the social sciences and humanities it would be a disaster. It would incentivise the proliferation of lower quality...
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Working hypotheses 2
I have to say that I found Susan Bassnett's piece excruciatingly patronising. My first thought was that it's very obvious she isn't a scientist. She grumbles about "people who think it's outrageous...
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Divided we fall 2
You note that a minority of universities are employing union-busting firms to undermine the University and College Union in their institutions. It might be interesting to know who is paying for these...
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The child departs
Does Freudian theory, and in particular the Oedipus complex as a way of explaining sexual development, still have anything to teach us? Matthew Reisz, below, explores a reinvestigation of Freud's...