High-tech holds the key to global stability
Science and technology need a new dispensation for the new century, according to Roger Dittmann, national coordinator of the US Federation of Scholars and Scientists, who is speaking at the AAAS...
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Thai universities fear 'civil war'
University leaders in Thailand fear their institutions could become embroiled in a "civil war" over radical wide-ranging higher education reforms before the Thai parliament. They say government plans...
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Oxbridge rows over modernisation
Modernising drives by Oxford and Cambridge universities have run into trouble. Proposals for a new "streamlined and transparent" management structure at Oxford University have been broadly welcomed...
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'Students should all learn to be teachers'
Universities should integrate teacher training units into all undergraduate degree courses as part of a "fundamental review" of teacher training in higher education, the chief executive of the...
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Scottish Office
A Scottish Office working group has called for a partnership approach to quality assurance in teacher training, with the government working alongside other bodies to ensure "streamlined" assessment,...
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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",...