Letter: Those for and against 2
We were disturbed by the recent coverage of the AUT election for a new general secretary ("AUT chief race 'rigged'", THES , December 14). The AUT has used the same rules for electing a general...
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Letter: Hurdles in the RAE handicap 1
May I propose a new parlour game for Christmas - spot the unlucky research-assessment-exercise gambler ("RAE league table of excellence", THES , December 14)? In economics, I'd guess Oxford and...
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Letter: Hurdles in the RAE handicap 2
Were other readers struck by the disparity in the proportions of 5 and 5* grades in different disciplines? At one extreme, all six veterinary science groups, in solid well-established universities of...
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Letter: Hurdles in the RAE handicap 4
A 3a means that up to 33 per cent (50 per cent for a 3b) of staff submitted are failures at research. Yet the RAE fails to identify them or educate management in what is good research. If management...
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Letter: Hurdles in the RAE handicap 5
If the rate of RAE improvement since 1992 continues, by 2005 at least 125 per cent of university departments will be scoring 5 or 5*, which even the government might find hard to believe. A. D....
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Letter: Hurdles in the RAE handicap 6
Your leading article lauds the English, but what about the Welsh? You mention every university in the top ten except Cardiff. It too has seen an exceptional improvement. Tom Wiersma Information...
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Letter: Hurdles in the RAE handicap 7
A change of managers, removal to Lincoln and a name change to the University of Lincoln in October 2001 means that the table for art and design in the RAE results does not credit the Hull School of...
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Letter: Hurdles in the RAE handicap 8
We are gratified that the RAE recognised the achievement of members of the former history department at the University of Luton with a rating of 4, up from 2 on its 1996 entry. But we do not believe...
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Letter: Corpse not corporate
Save British Science has the job of saying things other people do not want to hear, so we have never won a prize and were delighted to be nominated in the The THES ("Boom and bust", THES , December...
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Letter: Academic 'reality'
David Walker's argument concerning the impact of social science ignored the role that many social scientists play in what he terms the "real" world ("Get out into the real world", THES , December 14...
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Letter: Mission accomplished
So the president of Magdalen College considers that "only two universities remain perilously clinging to their standards" ("Elite citadels fall to dumb hordes", THES , December 14). To judge from...
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Letter: In brief 1
H. C. S. Ferguson needs to check the pensions calculations (Letters, THES , December 14) in detail. Quite apart from the improbability of a lecturer clocking up 40 years of pensionable service by age...
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Letter: In brief 2
I cannot help feeling that Marc Lopatin took a rather jaundiced view of the 2001 British Council education fairs in Vietnam ("UK spots potential market in Vietnam", THES , November 23). Duncan...
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Letter: In brief 3
Some £21 million has apparently been spent on mothballing the Dome. Some £1.7 billion will be needed to bail out the nuclear power industry. The Individual Learning Accounts are overspent by £59...
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Leader: Time to prevent dispute over online copyright
The ruling of the copyright tribunal adjudicating between Universities UK and the Copyright Licensing Agency (page 6) will save universities more than £5 million a year. It will also reassure anyone...