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Performance-management systems stifle flexibility, destroy goodwill and sap the commitment of employees. At least, that's the message that comes through in Frank Furedi's discussion of performance...
Performance-management systems stifle flexibility, destroy goodwill and sap the commitment of employees. At least, that's the message that comes through in Frank Furedi's discussion of performance...
Your report "Staff 'swotted' by managers" and Frank Furedi's column (April 13) express universal concerns about the growth in managerialism in universities, particularly how it undermines...
There are two good practical reasons for objecting to the consumerisation, marketisation and managerialisation of higher education. One is to be found in the work of the philosopher Alasdair...
Your article on fundraising in American universities (Features, April 6) was welcome, but it is a shame that the US examples were not contrasted with some from the UK. At least two factors...
The past two issues of The Times Higher have been particularly alarming for ophiophobics, and here have nearly caused tea-dropping disasters. Would you please desist? Richard Hensley Centre for...
Your reviewer Anthony Freeman more than once misses the point in his review of my book Creation, Evolution and Meaning (Books, April 6). Thus the quotation from the final chapter, which he suggests...
I'm not sure there is a crisis in the status of public intellectuals given, for example, the number of academic historians involved with blockbuster TV series ("Academics told to push intellectual...
Steve Smith implies that staff transferred from Exeter University to Into University Partnerships will suffer no disadvantage (Opinion, April 13). This beggars belief. There may be an argument that...
How refreshing it is to read a vice-chancellor accepting that an outsourcing activity is purely market-driven, without a single academic argument presented for or against the decision. Steve Smith is...
Bill Rammell is right that "foreign recruits (are) no threat to quality" as your headline has it (April 6), but only if they get the right preparation for a UK university education. It is vital that...
It is hard for those outside the university sector to appreciate the hostility many academics feel towards what are regarded elsewhere as routine tools of management, in this case psychometric...
For anyone working in a UK university, form-filling has been a one-way ratchet for many years. While most academics like the idea of accountability, the reality has been more work for little reward....
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