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Redundancy fears after Liverpool university cuts Lecturers at Liverpool John Moores University face job cuts after the institution announced it would close its language and business information...
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Laurie Taylor Column
"Economics departments use old-fashioned teaching methods and fail to put their subject in touch with the modern world" - The Times Higher, June 16. Morning, Economics 2B. Morning, Professor Tom-lin-...
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Thinking I might be bereft of soccer news in Massachusetts, one of my children has just sent me a round-up of the World Cup. My neighbour's television blares news of the Giants, indifferent to what...
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Leader: Intelligent debate about evolution
To many academics, including even two lectures on creationism in a zoology degree course will seem ridiculous - akin to a flat-earth module in a geography course, only more dangerous. For Leeds...
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Leader: A web of confusion
Plenty of horror stories emerged from this week's international plagiarism conference but the greatest cause for concern was over the confusion that still surrounds this most basic of academic...
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Shaw thing
Graham Farmelo in his review of my book Science on Stage (June 16) states that I omit to mention the plays of George Bernard Shaw. Even a cursory reading of my book would have revealed that Shaw...
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These metrics don't measure up 1
The Department for Education and Skills consultation paper on replacing the research assessment exercise with income-based metrics asks: "What are the possible undesirable behavioural consequences of...
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These metrics don't measure up 2
For some time, my personal view has been that both universities and the UK need to move on from the research assessment exercise to a more dynamic research funding system. Contrary to your report's...
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These metrics don't measure up 3
Last week's Department for Education and Skills consultation document presents five models, all of which are based on external research income and none on the main alternative, bibliographic data....
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These metrics don't measure up 4
The Higher Education Funding Council for England must be trying to discredit metrics by its absurd proposal to use funding - an input measure - instead of the research assessment exercise. This is...
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Disappointing deal 1
"University staff to vote overwhelmingly for deal". This is not as good a story as the one you reported ("Poll predicts close pay vote", June 16), but it is the real story. If my institution is...
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Disappointing deal 2
During the bitter dispute between staff and university management it became increasingly obvious that vice-chancellors were prepared to sacrifice professional standards and undermine academic values...
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Disappointing deal 3
The pay offer is deeply disappointing. Irrespective of the outcome of the pay ballot, the union needs to initiate an open discussion on strategies to further our claim whenever pay negotiations...
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Disappointing deal 4
Andrew Todd tells us that the recent pay offer gives a "cash increase" of 3.52 per cent, 3.77 per cent and 2.08 per cent over three years (Letters, June 16). These figures (derived from the...
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Miss out on minorities 1
Black and minority ethnic staff will not be surprised by the case of Harinder Bahra ("Brunel pays out to settle race row", June 16). It is no secret that universities have been unwilling to address...