Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. 'A male, more senior colleague in my department has been sexually harassing me....
Rachel van Besouw Research fellow, Institute of Sound and Vibration, Southampton University. Job advertised in The Times Higher, September 22, 2006 . Researchers at the Institute of Sound and...
Study suggests value and impact of costly CETL initiative is limited, reports Melanie Newman There is little evidence that a multimillion-pound scheme designed to "celebrate and reward excellence in...
"False or exaggerated claims in university prospectuses are among the most damaging features of the current university system" - David Watson speaking to the Higher Education Academy, July 2007
Whenever governments carve up Whitehall departments in the hope of greater effectiveness, words such as "deckchair" and " Titanic " spring to mind. Those of advanced years will recall Harold Wilson's...
While British motorsport fans were focused on Lewis Hamilton's progress in the British Grand Prix last week, one university engineer was paying particular attention to the nuts and bolts end of the...
First, we had the complaints from some that when they took industrial action employers "docked" wages. Nowhere else would people withdraw their labour and still expect such actions to have no cost....
Along with Robert Cook, I am one of those at Sheffield University who have been advised that they are contractually obliged to remain in post for the research assessment exercise. Despite having...
A contract is a legally binding agreement between parties. When Robert Cook signed his employment contract with Sheffield University he agreed to its terms, including the conditions for terminating...
I am surprised that Robert Cook, a professor of history, is comparing his situation to slavery. I do not recall many slaves earning a professorial salary. RAE or no RAE, a contract is a contract. I...
Had Marc Hauser and Ernst Fehr submitted their paper on reform of the reviewing process to a peer-reviewed journal ("Make all see that deadline matters", Opinion, July 6), it would probably have been...
So Marc Hauser and Ernst Fehr regard the review process as broken. This is the system whereby academics write papers at work and then hand over the copyright to a commercial publisher for free. Other...
I would consider myself to be among the "sensible people", described by outgoing Universities and Colleges Employers Association chair Alasdair Smith ("We must sit around a single table", Opinions,...
Successful bargaining depends on at least tacit agreement about the frame of reference. It isn't possible even to disagree with someone unless you know what they are talking about. The 2006...
Letter to the Arts and Humanities Research Council, copied to The Times Higher We are writing as members of the "Future Histories of the Moving Image", an Arts and Humanities Research Council- funded...