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Deadline: 05/12/2006
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Today's news
City looks overseas for young recruits The City is increasingly looking overseas for young recruits because foreign graduates are more mature than their British counterparts, a report warned...
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Laurie Taylor Column
From: The Office of the President Subject: University Values As you will recall, we recently engaged a leading firm of management consultants, Quantum Leap plc, to assist in the preparation of a set...
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Leader: RAE consensus too good to last
The three submissions published this week by university groups on the future of research assessment and funding hold no great surprises, but they constitute an interesting case study on the way in...
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Leader: Repairing the campus
The first and proudest boast of Education Secretary Alan Johnson's speech to the Labour Party conference involved the thousands of state schools refurbished with government money. This week's report...
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Change rules to end game-play 1
Ed Hughes, the research assessment exercise manager, could easily minimise game-playing by universities that don't submit all researchers ("RAE 2008: only the very best need apply", September 22). He...
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Change rules to end game-play 2
Which is fairer of the following two systems? First, one in which an institution with a department of 100 academics, 99 of whom are worthy of a 1* research rating and one of a 5* rating, chooses to...
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Change rules to end game-play 4
If the research assessment exercise officers wished to minimise game-playing they would have adopted the suggestion of the Roberts report and insisted that departments submit all their staff. The...
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Change rules to end game-play 5
I note that the research assessment exercise bureaucracy has become so great that even Bob Dylan has been forced to comment in his latest communique to his followers ["the world of research has gone...
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Wider debate 1
I was interested to see so many letters responding to my opinion piece and the story about widening participation ("Experts: access policy futile" and Opinion, September 15, Letters, September 22)....
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Wider debate 2
It is quite right to have regular debates about the meaning and purpose of widening participation. But the more pressing issue is not about getting them in but getting them to stay. Having just...
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Policy problem
"Mental health crisis on campus" (September 22) describes many of the kinds of pheno-mena uncovered in research we conducted last year. Vulnerable people are being persuaded to enter education. We...
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School's out 1
Last week I was asked to comment on the report that the London School of Economics was considering establishing a "Blair School of Government". I said, by e-mail: "We have had no discussions with the...
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School's out 2
A Blair School of Government seems a little far-fetched. But a Blair Institute of War would surely be just the thing. Keith Flett Tottenham
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Different market 1
What is most depressing about the discussion of market forces in UK higher education ("Bankruptcies on the cards" and Opinion, September 22) is the simplistic terms in which it is being conducted by...