Communication breakdown
One would expect universities to be at the cutting edge of communications technology. But when Peep tried to get in touch with the press communications team at London South Bank University this week...
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Laurie Taylor Column
"Psychological testing for university posts is here to stay" - The Times Higher, April 20. Now, then Mr Craddock, I'd like you to sit down over here at the desk. That's right. Are you quite...
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Leader: Cautionary tale of two workforces
Bournemouth University's contract with new staff is scarcely a tyrant's charter. But removing study leave and potentially making staff do more than 18 hours a week of teaching mean that Bournemouth...
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Leader: A title worth aspiring to
As elite clubs go, the British professoriate has never lacked exclusivity. But news that the number has grown in absolute terms and as a proportion of total academic staff should not be seen as a...
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Support, don't scorn Israel exiles
The criticism of Ilan Pappe by David Hirsh and Richard Millett (Letters, April 13) is wholly unwarranted. If, as Hirsh says, Pappe "was not successful in building an academic or a political movement...
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Anonymous insult
The letter about fourth-rate university administrators (April 20) was ignorant and insulting in equal measure and unworthy of a reply. What concerns me is that it was printed anonymously. Printing...
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Media quick fixes 1
A further problem with the lack of academics appearing as intellectuals in public view in the UK ("Academics told to push intellectual credentials", April 13) is the laziness of the television and...
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Media quick fixes 2
A. C. Grayling is expressing what many must think but do not hear often enough ("'I'm right.' 'You're not'", Features, April 20). Media reports are too often what he calls "eristic", merely an...
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Reflections on mirror
John Gribbin attributes to Victor J. Stenger the speculation that "there should be a mirror universe expanding in the opposite direction of time on the other side of the Big Bang", in his review of...
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What's really at steak
Has David Nibert never been in a field (Opinions, April 20)? The arguments he presents against eating meat relate to cheap US-style hamburgers, and I could not agree more that we should stop eating...
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Official criteria
It is indeed salutary to learn in "UK-style RAE taken on by Italy" (April 13) that officials will be barred from holding a post in a university or research institute. But to be able to "reward only...
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Research executive
The verb that describes what postdocs do (besides assisting a lot of teaching) is "to execute research" (Opinions, April 20). In grant proposals, the academic staff who will be paid to do the work...
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Plagiarism policy
Will the Minister for Higher Education ever take his head out of the sand? Bill Rammell's response to the increasing numbers of international students faced with plagiarism charges is wholly...
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Cold (war) comfort
The release of Cold War archives offers little insight into the fight against al-Qaeda, writes Peter Hennessy, but it does focus attention on the current parlous state of civil liberties in the UK (...
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Watching them watching us
With ministers deriding civil liberties to tackle an overstated terrorist threat, we need credible oversight of the security services, argues Stephen Dorril On November 24, 1974, after a series of...