Laurie Taylor Column
"Many heads of department are ashamed to be managers and avoid their managerial responsibilities" - Wolverhampton University survey of academic staff. THES , January 30. From : The head of department...
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Laurie Taylor Column
"Many heads of department are ashamed to be managers and avoid their managerial responsibilities" - Wolverhampton University survey of academic staff. THES , January 30. From : The head of department...
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Leader: Stars wanted to give fillip to arts
As top-up fees become more likely, whole disciplines, as well as individual universities, are looking ahead to gauge the impact. The received wisdom, echoed in the concerns of Ian Smith, managing...
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Leader: Security is no solution
Most people in Britain accept that it is sometimes necessary to use animals in scientific and medical research. Most of those who disagree obey the law when they voice their opinions. But the few...
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Leader: Stars wanted to give fillip to arts
As top-up fees become more likely, whole disciplines, as well as individual universities, are looking ahead to gauge the impact. The received wisdom, echoed in the concerns of Ian Smith, managing...
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Leader: Security is no solution
Most people in Britain accept that it is sometimes necessary to use animals in scientific and medical research. Most of those who disagree obey the law when they voice their opinions. But the few...
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Staff training not worthy of scorn 1
Frank Furedi ("Don't underestimate managers' ability to treat you as an idiot", THES , January 30) highlights academics' fears that managers are using staff development to whip them into line with...
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Staff training not worthy of scorn 2
"Personal development" is a hoop through which employees in most large organisations have to jump. You do not have to be a starry-eyed academic to find it patronising. The only satisfying explanation...
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Staff training not worthy of scorn 3
Frank Furedi's attack on university staff development is largely empty and misconstructed. Staff development aims to further the goals of an institution, individuals, or both. Furedi attacks...
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Time to mix'n'match 1
John Drummond neglects to mention that dental school recruitment problems extend to non-clinical academics, who are usually responsible for 30-40 per cent of teaching (Letters, THES , January 30). He...
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Time to mix'n'match 2
The British Medical Association is concerned that clinical academic numbers are falling when medical student numbers are rising steeply ("BMA warns of research-mad medical schools", THES , January 30...
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Questionable results
Preliminary results of the pilot student satisfaction survey ("Students rate staff highly", THES , January 30) should be treated with caution. Constructing a league table that allows students to...
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High expectations 1
Geoffrey Beattie's claim ("It's not what Les says that counts", THES , January 30) that the Big Brother house and its inmates provide valuable data for new psychological theory is worrying. His main...
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High expectations 2
How appropriate that the survey conducted by psychologists at Leicester University should rank Tony Blair and David Blaine in the 69th position ("Youth drool at cool", THES , January 30). A fantasist...
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Bargain basement 1
An apparently unnoticed spanner in the higher education bill (Opinion, THES , January 30) is that European Union directives require the UK to offer higher education places to non-UK EU citizens on...