Mentors
BOTH Bahram Behhradnia and Lewis Elton (THES, June 26) miss the point in their analysis of the relationship of rewards to performance in teaching. Financial incentives are shallow and superficial...
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Honorary degrees
Royal College of Art Honorary doctorates were awarded on July 3 to: Peter Blake, painter, whose works have been exhibited in the Guggenheim, Musee d'Art Moderne, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Galleria...
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University museums miss out
THOUSANDS of local museums face an uncertain future despite the government's announcement last week of a Pounds 100 million injection into the sector, says the Museums and Galleries Commission....
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Abertay super schools may mean job losses
JOBS may go at Dundee's Abertay University as a result of a four-year structural overhaul that has created four "super schools" out of seven. A spokesman confirmed this week that jobs could be lost...
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'Ghost worker' dispute
A "GHOST worker", employed for five years without a contract and paid almost half the going rate for academically related staff, is locked in a dispute with the University of Wales Swansea. The...
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Professor on peace mission shot dead
JAPAN's foremost academic expert on the former Soviet Union has been shot dead. The United Nations observer mission of which he was part was ambushed by rebels unwilling to accept the peace process...
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Promotion prospects
LOUISE Casella, in her letter outlining Cardiff's research assessment exercise strategy (THES, July 18), points to the various career paths open to academics here. True, staff in Cardiff can move...
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Sydney sibling
In THES (June 26) an old photograph of the University of Sydney was wrongly attributed to the University of New South Wales. We are, of course, the original university of New South Wales and the two...
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Tooley put to the test
JAMES Tooley's Education Research - A Critique is a polemic masquerading as research, a triumph of inconsistency, incoherences and bad faith (THES, July 24). It is astonishing that the school...
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Transfers help take teams to top
CAN ANYONE explain to me what is wrong with an academic transfer market? Does anyone argue that the transfer market in football, which facilitates the rise of a handful of top clubs, should be...
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Transfers help take teams to top
EXTERNAL assessment of research in higher education (and indeed teaching and administration) is essential, but leaves much to be desired. Making the research assessment exercise fair, open and...
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Wellcome priorities
IT IS indeed welcome that the government's comprehensive spending review has released a much needed extra Pounds 600 million for research infrastructure in universities (THES, July 24). The influence...
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Don's Diary
Monday Back in berserkly Berkeley for six weeks of reading and writing at the Center for Studies in Higher Education, one of my favourite places.The sun ricochets off the white stone of Wheeler Hall...
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Goodwill eroded by public pay sacrifices
It will take some time to assess the impact of government spending plans for universities. Is it all smoke and mirrors or a push towards real change? Universities are not thought to be a priority...
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Service benefits everyone
Many universities have mission statements that commit the institution to community service as well as to teaching and research. It is not always clear what priority community service rates - in many...