Conferences mean high times but low returns
Academic gatherings may be fun, but they do little to advance knowledge. To justify the public spending that supports them, such events must do more to provide benefits to those who don’t attend,...
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THE Leadership and Management Awards 2018 shortlist announced
Do you appear on this year’s shortlist?
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Laurie Taylor – 12 April 2018
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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The USS strike and the winter of academics’ discontent
The protests against pensions reforms reflect not just self-interest but also anger about working conditions and a sense that universities are losing their way. Jack Grove explores how proposed...
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The threat to standards in UK universities
While their credentials are not in dispute, institutions could have their teaching and research undermined by a crisis in morale
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Give staff space to flag concerns about inequality
Kalwant Bhopal’s call for universities’ funding to be linked to their efforts to address racial inequality (“Tie funding to tackling racial inequality, says professor”, News, 29 March) needs early...
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Dangerous stance
The co-authors’ response (Letters, 22 March) to my review of Transgender Children and Young People: Born In Your Own Body (Books, 15 March) miscasts my critique as personalised. I did not call them “...
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End the ‘ee’ trend
I do hope that Robert Zaretsky’s tribute to Simone Weil (“Wait – and see”, Opinion, 29 March) will be read by organisers of academic conferences and other events. They should, then, abandon the term...
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Unconditional fail
Much of the problem in “As the lowest rise, so too do fears of grade inflation” (News, 5 April) is not because of grade inflation but the issue of the “unconditional for all” approach seen in much of...