Rise in teaching-only contracts
The proportion of part-time staff on teaching-only contracts is now more than 60 per cent after climbing almost 4 percentage points in a year, according to a report
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Guess who’s watching you now!
“Well done, Liverpool!”That was how Louise Bimpson, our corporate director of HR, reacted to the news that the University of Liverpool now requires every member of its academic staff to be observed...
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The week in higher education – 12 March 2015
The vice-chancellor of the University of Bolton has written to all staff to reassure them of the value of Bolton’s “development programme”, which will involve all 700 employees being put up in a...
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Strong ties are best defence
University terror inquiries flag the vital role of strong pastoral care and good tutoring in guarding against disengagement
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Salaries made simple
According to Sir Ian Diamond’s efficiencies report, many universities are moving towards “nuanced and responsive systems of pay and reward” (“Performance-related pay ‘is way forward’ ”, News, 26...
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Passing the baton
I was fascinated to learn David Eastwood’s thoughts on being a vice-chancellor, although like many, I suspect, of your musician readers, slightly doubtful about his allusion to sonata form (“Know the...
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Secret support
Hannah Arendt apparently said “goodbye to philosophy once and for all” and instead preferred “thinking without bannisters” (“A worldly thinker”, Features, 26 February). However, a bannister does...
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Open eyes to field skills
The loss of field skills and, in particular, identification skills, is an issue of deep concern that has been highlighted by select committees and reports by the Natural Environment Research Council...
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Flexibility? It’s already here
I was interested to read “Flexible study emerges as cross-party concern” (News, 5 March), but, sadly, my interest was more in the evident chasm between the understanding of politicians and what...
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Regulation regret
It is a great pity that once again a Universities UK working group has delivered a mouse.The report Quality, Equity, Sustainability: the future of higher education regulation by the UUK Regulation...
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Exams with merit
Why do medical faculties have such a problem with multiple choice questions? (“Campus Hunger Games”, Opinion, 5 March).A chicken pecking randomly at four possible answers will score 25 per cent on...
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Light and shade in OU student numbers
As academics at the Open University, we were interested in the report on the OU’s student numbers, which raised important questions. However, we feel that some of the OU spokesman’s statements are...
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BIS plans ‘reward structure’ as bill paves way for earnings league tables
The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill will enable ministers to join up datasets
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60 seconds to digest drug review
Concerns over open access publisher as journal containing ‘world’s shortest review’ disappears from Pharma Research Library list