Letter: Reward excellence 4
In my department, a grade 5 was achieved by excluding some staff from the RAE submission, replacing others with people from Russia and Eastern Europe and by making a third of staff "teaching only"....
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Letter: High cost of less well-prepared
Universities are busy preparing responses to the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council's consultation on student supply and demand for the January 25 deadline. Key issues are whether to retain control on...
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Letter: Fractional errors 1
The short answer to Dick Leigh's letter ( THES , December 21/28) is that the Teachers' Superannuation Scheme is written with age 60 as the normal retirement age whereas the Universities...
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Letter: Fractional Errors 2
H. C. S. Ferguson misunderstands (Letters, THES December 14). The possible changes to the USS on which I and some colleagues on its trustee board have consulted members, if implemented for any period...
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Letter: Personal effects
Laura Spence was reportedly devastated when details of her rejected application to Oxford University were publicised. Similarly, the Keevil family are upset at the effect that publicity surrounding...
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Letter: Religious intolerance
When Sir Harry Kroto (100 Years of the Nobel, THES , December 21/28) wishes to be virulent about people who believe in their country and their God, he should take care to be informed about the public...
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Letter: That 'halo' effect
As psychologists, we believe that if students have a positive personal and/or social view of the lecturer, this may lead to more positive ratings irrespective of teaching effectiveness (Soapbox, THES...
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Leader: Openness is the best defence for probity
The Association of University Teachers has picked a good issue - the ethics of commercial sponsorship - on which their official candidate for general secretary can campaign. Codes of ethics in public...
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Leader: 2002: the dream is fine but what of the means?
This could be a momentous year for universities and colleges. Expansion is back, and there is real enthusiasm both for sustaining universities' research and for at last cracking the grip of the...
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On a 'need to know' basis
US historians are preparing to fight a directive, sneaked through by George W. Bush in early November, that closes the archives on certain presidential papers. Huw Richards reports President George W...
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Living up to expectations
What do you get when you combine old-style doctoring with 21st-century obstetrics? Harriet Swain meets King's College London's 'miracle maker' Kypros Nicolaides. The knock at the door comes just as...
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If we're different, it's for the same reason
In our series on the Big Science Questions, Aisling Irwin looks at the evidence for differences between the sexes beyond the basic mechanics of reproduction. "Why can't a woman be more like a man?"...
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To describe our nature is not to define our natural place
Acknowledging that men and women are not the same is not an argument for genetic determinism, writes Janet Radcliffe Richards. Were traditionalists right about men and women after all? They always...
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Euro will not buy allegiance to Europe ideal
The single currency is a reality for most European countries but unity is a distant dream. Willem Wolters sees trouble ahead if more power is wrested from proud nation states. On January 1, euro...
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Athenaeum opens doors to women The first female academics have joined the Athenaeum Club in London. Oxford academic Baroness Greenfield, Rabbi Julia Neuberger and author Victoria Glendinning are...