Oxford feels heat over ‘ageist’ retirement rule despite reforms

Who wants to retire to a crappy pension if they are fit and healthy, Academics can be quite priductive into their 70s. What is needed is to free up money by sacking some of the unproductive bureaucrats that have infected the UK higher education system.

The standard is very low for professor at Oxford with anyone graduating with a PhD being made an Associate Professor directly from the PhD while at all other universities Associate Professor takes years and at least one monograph and a dozen or so papers. Thus, this might be why the have to retire early. Also people there seem to be Dean in some faculties with hardly any peer reviewed publications.