Private firms tighten grip
More universities are handing their English-language tuition to outside firms, Melanie Newman reports Private companies are in talks with six universities to provide English-language teaching to...
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Get into citizen-shape
Today's students are often accused of political apathy, but university lecturers from a more politically fired generation are encouraging them to become engaged and active citizens. Politics...
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Security fears after shootings
The American academic community was in a state of shock this week over the shooting of at least 32 people, including three professors, at Virginia Tech University. As The Times Higher went to press,...
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Raised profile launches projects into new orbits
Staff morale at Leeds Metropolitan University has soared since the institution won the 2006 Times Higher award for its outstanding contribution to the local community. "Within the university it has...
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Next week
Top jobs bonanza The rise of the professoriate in UK universities Plus In from the cold: how the release of Cold War archives is helping analysts draw vital lessons in the battle against al-Qaeda
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Laurie Taylor Column
"Academics owe it to society to promote themselves as public intellectuals" - Barbara Misztal, head of Leicester University's department of sociology. The University of Poppleton Department of Media...
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Leader: Not all tools are blunt instruments
It is hard for those outside the university sector to appreciate the hostility many academics feel towards what are regarded elsewhere as routine tools of management, in this case psychometric...
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Leader: Freedom from forms
For anyone working in a UK university, form-filling has been a one-way ratchet for many years. While most academics like the idea of accountability, the reality has been more work for little reward....
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A mismanaged performance? 1
Performance-management systems stifle flexibility, destroy goodwill and sap the commitment of employees. At least, that's the message that comes through in Frank Furedi's discussion of performance...
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A mismanaged performance? 2
Your report "Staff 'swotted' by managers" and Frank Furedi's column (April 13) express universal concerns about the growth in managerialism in universities, particularly how it undermines...
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A mismanaged performance? 3
There are two good practical reasons for objecting to the consumerisation, marketisation and managerialisation of higher education. One is to be found in the work of the philosopher Alasdair...
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$64,000 difference
Your article on fundraising in American universities (Features, April 6) was welcome, but it is a shame that the US examples were not contrasted with some from the UK. At least two factors...
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A little hissed off
The past two issues of The Times Higher have been particularly alarming for ophiophobics, and here have nearly caused tea-dropping disasters. Would you please desist? Richard Hensley Centre for...
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Theistic stewardship
Your reviewer Anthony Freeman more than once misses the point in his review of my book Creation, Evolution and Meaning (Books, April 6). Thus the quotation from the final chapter, which he suggests...
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Crisis, what crisis?
I'm not sure there is a crisis in the status of public intellectuals given, for example, the number of academic historians involved with blockbuster TV series ("Academics told to push intellectual...