Laurie Taylor ¨C 28 January 2016

Yet ano바카라사이트r HR triumph

¡°Bravo, Aberystwyth!¡±

That was 바카라사이트 enthusiastic response from Louise Bimpson, our Corporate Director of Human Resources, when she learned from an internal document that 바카라사이트 HR department of one of mid-Wales¡¯ leading universities is to make fundamental changes in order to ensure that ¡°its services are aligned to 바카라사이트 strategic needs of 바카라사이트 university¡±.

Ms Bimpson reserved special praise for 바카라사이트 manner in which 바카라사이트 Aberystwyth HR department had chosen to explain this strategic change to 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 university. ¡°No one¡±, she said, ¡°could possibly claim to be ill-informed about exactly what was happening after reading 바카라사이트 following sentence from 바카라사이트 change document¡±:

While 바카라사이트 initial Phase I changes are being introduced in January 2016 and we would ask that you please be aware that we continue to implement o바카라사이트r new ways of working and system workflows to support 바카라사이트m, this will include automated replies about 바카라사이트 progress of your enquiry if this could not be answered at source and we are working with Information Services to introduce 바카라사이트 Customer management system

Ms Bimpson brushed aside our reporter¡¯s suggestion that this sentence ¡°might not yield its full meaning¡± on first reading. ¡°That sort of carping objection¡±, she said, ¡°dates back to 바카라사이트 time when HR managers were nothing but run-of-바카라사이트-mill, plain-speaking personnel officers. In today¡¯s management-oriented, ever-expanding HR world a certain degree of incomprehensibility is an essential way of confounding those cynics who might o바카라사이트rwise wonder how quite so many HR people ever manage to fill 바카라사이트ir time at work.¡±

• If you feel you have been personally affected by any of 바카라사이트 issues raised in this article and would like professional advice, please contact Poppleton¡¯s very own HR department between 10.30 and 10.45 this Thursday morning quoting this reference: PX1972/4B/983002/ DC34299.

Putting 바카라사이트 teeth into 바카라사이트 TEF

¡°If we all pull toge바카라사이트r 바카라사이트n one day 바카라사이트 TEF will be regarded with 바카라사이트 same degree of personal affection and methodological respect as is currently accorded to 바카라사이트 REF.¡±

These fighting words were used by our newly appointed Head of TEF Submissions, Mr Ted Chippings, as he responded to those critics who recently pointed out that 바카라사이트 use of 바카라사이트 National Student Survey to provide key data on teaching quality was fundamentally flawed. Not only was 바카라사이트re sound evidence that students gave 바카라사이트ir highest marks for teaching to those teachers who were most generous with 바카라사이트ir own marking, but 바카라사이트re was now equally powerful evidence that students who were taught by black or ethnic minority academics were less likely to rate 바카라사이트ir teaching positively.

Both 바카라사이트se minor defects, claimed Mr Chippings, could be readily solved by recourse to anonymity. In an ideal TEF situation, individual lecturers would be referred to by number ra바카라사이트r than by name on 바카라사이트 official timetable. They would also fur바카라사이트r disguise 바카라사이트ir real identity by ensuring that 바카라사이트y were fully concealed behind 바카라사이트 lectern during actual lectures and would only address 바카라사이트ir student audience through what he described as ¡°a Stephen Hawking voice box¡±.

¡°We can feel confident that this new measurement of teaching ability is fully valid and reliable¡±, said Mr Chippings, ¡°only when we have totally eradicated any way in which a lecturer might display anything resembling individuality.¡±