If you know your onions, you'll steer clear of setting targets
The Tyranny of Numbers
The Tyranny of Numbers
Magnetic Venture
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a magical realist interested in memory: "It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds...
Dot.bomb
Divergent Capitalisms
Money Laundering
The Politics of Telecommunications
Strategic Stress Management
International HRM - Introduction to Human Resource Management
Keys to Prosperity
"Universities should stop criticising each other if they want to attract students" - results of a survey into students' views on the value of informal visits to universities - THES November 9 Well,...
It is a pity that Rebecca Boden (Letters, THES , November 9) did not check my views with the paper I gave at the Universities UK/Society for Research in Higher Education conference rather than base...
It is simplistic and misleading to suggest a stark choice between statutory corporations, which are prone to "improprieties and breakdown" and where chief executives dominate "pliant" governors, and...
So universities should be run by "shared governance". The trouble is we have a generation of governors and managers who think they run universities but do not, and academics who think they do not run...
The "professionalisation" of management in old universities is a depressing trend. The loss of tenure started the rot in 1988 by redefining the relationship between academics and their institutions....