Private provision is a bankrupt approach 3
In your article "Bankruptcy should be a real option", Terence Kealey, vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham, states: "Universities in America go bankrupt, which is why the US has the best...
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Judge AHRC by its deeds 1
As an Arts and Humanities Research Council award-holder, I would like to comment on Peter Barry's attack on the supposedly overarching managerialisation, governmentalisation and restrictive short-...
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Judge AHRC by its deeds 2
Reading your list of field-changing books ("The book everyone wishes they'd written", 23 April), I could not help noticing how many would surely have been denied funding in our climate of "economic...
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Fundamental constraints
In your feature on university governance ("Where power lies", 16 April), David Watson, professor of higher education management at the Institute of Education, quotes from our paper, Keeping Our...
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Scrap academy's funding
Perhaps the simplest solution ("Out-of-touch academy is unfit for grant role, says former fellow", 16 April) would be to take from the British Academy the substantial amount of funding it receives...
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Grant us the grant power
The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills should bring the Academy of Social Sciences into the grant-giving process. With 680 individual academicians, 34 learned society members, 90 per...
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Sector norms are bad news
With all Oxbridge colleges in the process of registering with the Charity Commission, the Charities Act is ever before my mind (Letters, 23 April). And I yield to nobody in my anxiety that the Higher...
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Rank and rile
I feel sure that the purpose of your very detailed report on vice-chancellors' pay ("Pay packets of excellence", 19 March) is to provide useful information on a comparative basis. The means you...
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Pedagogic commitment
I was surprised by the solipsistic tone and narrow focus of Lewis Elton's review of Exploring Professionalism, edited by Bryan Cunningham (Books, 16 April). The review hardly does credit to the range...
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Probability theory
In a silly, condescending sort of way, Trevor Stone (Letters, 23 April) tries to tell us how any "right-thinking, honest intellectual" should think about religion. He says that its basic hypothesis...
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Bang for your bucks
What is research worth? The time lag before it bears economic fruit and the difficulty of gauging its social effects mean it cannot be easily accounted for in terms of profit and loss. But, as Zoe...
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Blind sides
Academics aren't perfect. They may be reluctant to scrutinise their teaching practices, but despite their marginalised status across much of the world, they are dedicated and committed. Tara Brabazon...
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It's the faculty, stupid!
Officials must not forget that staff are responsible for a university's success, says Philip G. Altbach
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Scramble for staff
As many US universities stop hiring or cut posts in the downturn, others see a chance to snap up the best and the brightest - particularly those with their own grants. Jon Marcus reports
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30 April 2009
Measuring the unmeasurable - Is it possible to pinpoint research’s economic impact?