Dealing with those difficult dons
Name: Becka Currant Age: 33 Job: Head of the Learner Development Unit, Bradford Univer-sity, which provides centralised skills support to students and staff. Salary: £38,019 Background/ education: I...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. 'The balance of women on our senior governing committee is persistently low. How could...
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Who got that job?
Arianna Giovannini, Institute for Northern Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University Advertised in The Times Higher , June 21, 2006 It is a question that has no doubt puzzled many southerners over the...
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Warwick cuts 40 jobs as external funding runs dry
'Permanent' staff claim they are treated like contract employees as academy faces closure. Tony Tysome reports The imminent closure of the high-profile National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth...
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Laurie Taylor Column
" The number of professors has increased by 63 per cent in the past decade ", The Times Higher, April Ah, Lapping, there you are. Professor Lapping, I should say. Yes, indeed, vice-chancellor....
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Alan Ryan
There was a nice conjunction of stories last week. First, The Times Higher revealed that increasing numbers of institutions want to make their staff take psychometric tests to see if they have the...
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Leader: New universities deserve more investment
In most big cities in the UK it is easy to tell the new university from the old one. Just look for concrete instead of sandstone as you approach. But we show this week that exactly 15 years after the...
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Research remains in our remit
How could your leader of April have got it so wrong? It stated that Bournemouth University was "positioning itself as a teaching-only institution where scholarship and research take a distant second...
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Respect admin staff 1
I feel sorry for the reader who wrote in response to the report "staff 'swotted' by managers" and Frank Furedi's column (Letters, April 20). He must have been very unlucky in his experience of...
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Respect admin staff 2
Your unnamed contributor's assertion that "even the best university administrators are at best only fourth-raters" raised eyebrows here at the Association of University Administrators and kick-...
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Respect admin staff 3
I was staggered by your anonymous letter-writer's insensitive and inaccurate depiction of university administrative staff as "fourth-raters" to whom we ought to "stop being deferential". Without...
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Old lows, new highs
The article "Competition swells ranks of professors" (April ) asserts that there is "a danger of 'grade inflation' taking place so that the title could begin to lose its value as a mark of academic...
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Time to say 'sorry'
The letter from David Booth (April ) regarding job titles made me chuckle, having once been a fuel-injection engineer (aka petrol-pump attendant). Does he not realise that research administrators are...
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Misinformed dangers
In his article "Blind faith" (Features, April ), Anthony Glees berates my discipline for turning down "a government offer of £1.3 million to study how to combat terrorism by countering radicalisation...
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Bovine balderdash
Being a vegetarian is about taking the (easy) ethical choice that you don't require animals to be killed just so that you can eat them. Nigel Hunt's appalling letter (April ) suggests that it is OK...