Letters in brief
Certain lectureships at the Said Business School ("Oxford eyes Pounds 15,000 fees", THES, January 15) will be eligible for a salary supplement of Pounds 15,000, provided these posts prove difficult...
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Long and short of job contracts
The THES received a huge number of responses to the Soapbox article by University of Westminster personnel director Larry Bunt ("Pros of the short term", THES, January 8). Here are some of the...
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Long and short of job contracts
It does seem strange that given Larry Bunt's barely hidden contempt for academics (and for priests), he has a post in a university. Is he on a short fixed-term contract of the kind he is advocating?...
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Long and short of job contracts
Academics are hired on one basis only - their publication record. As a consequence, my junior colleagues on fixed-term contracts are, quite sensibly, looking only to their next position. Thus they...
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Long and short of job contracts
A series of short-term contracts is not an effective way to employ researchers. In the United States research teams increasingly depend on the recruitment of immigrants, for American youth is not...
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Long and short of job contracts
Larry Bunt totally ignores evidence about the impact of temporary contracts. From my own research, managers use fixed-term contracts as an expedient and ad hoc approach - it is more a form of crisis...
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Long and short of job contracts
It is unfair that researchers should lurch from contract to contract while teachers and administrators assume continuity of funding and employment. Without research all else becomes stale, withers...
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Long and short of job contracts
Casualisation is damaging to staff morale and impedes recruitment and retention of high-quality graduates into teaching and research. Employers like to think that contract research staff go through a...
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Long and short of job contracts
Fixed-term contracts demoralise staff. A far better way to cope with an uncertain financial future is to have a high-quality satisfied workforce that is loyal to you. Only then are you able to...
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Letters in brief
Continuing professional development will indeed be supported by the University for Industry, along with the continuing learning needs of all adults ("Flexible accounts to pay for lifelong study",...
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Overseas adventures
Roger Brown gives ample proof that hindsight is a wonderful thing ("Scrutinise those overseas links", THES, January 1). His own standpoint is impregnable, too, since he was not at the helm of...
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Science - the only frontier
Former astronaut George 'Pinky' Nelson charts a cure forscience illiteracy in the US and beyond. While scientific knowledge is growing at a breathtaking pace, science literacy is not. In fact, there...
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Openness saves lives
On the eve of the Freedom of Information Bill, Iain McLean points out abuses of secrecy. When I was a lad writing a thesis on Red Clydeside, I remember writing to the minister responsible asking to...
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A first shot of hope
The breakthrough in the race to find an Aids vaccine could be at hand. David Baltimore, who oversees US efforts, will discuss provocative new findings in California this weekend. Tim Cornwell reports...
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Scientists fear NIH budget will hit research
After half a decade of dwindling budgets the US research community celebrated a giant jump in funding last year. Congress and the White House agreed 15 per cent more for the National Institutes of...