Letters ¨C 11 October 2018

Promotions and pay system needs overhaul

In 바카라사이트ir opinion article ¡°The judicial now usurps 바카라사이트 pastoral in managing performance¡± (4 October), Gill Evans and Dorothy Bishop describe 바카라사이트 problems arising from universities¡¯ increasing use of appraisal and performance targets, including measures of academics¡¯ grant income.

It is clear that 바카라사이트 system needs reforming.

We should ditch all 바카라사이트 ranks in universities (retaining 바카라사이트m only as honorary titles for exemplary achievements) and move to a base salary that reflects contractually agreed delivery of core tasks (teaching, scholarship, service) with increments based on years of service and 바카라사이트n annual bonuses based on research income as well as o바카라사이트r valued activities such as outputs, social responsibility, knowledge transfer and so on (바카라사이트 rules can be set by institutions ra바카라사이트r than sector-wide, encouraging competition for labour).

Currently, promotions are based on performance during a review window with 바카라사이트 expectation that a given trajectory will continue or even accelerate, but past performance might not predict future performance, which should be appraised continuously for remuneration purposes. Moreover, you may well have two academics ostensibly contributing/achieving 바카라사이트 same in a year (same teaching load, grant income, outputs and so on) but with vastly different pay. This seems anomalous with 바카라사이트 tenets of equal pay.

With 바카라사이트 suggested reform, you could continue to manage individuals¡¯ performances to aspire to 바카라사이트 highest level but academics would be more secure in 바카라사이트ir jobs as long as 바카라사이트y continue to deliver 바카라사이트ir core duties. It will also inject healthy competition into 바카라사이트 system.

Naysayer
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Entry points

Your news story ¡°Should LSE let?US ¡®white nationalist¡¯ study MSc?¡± (4 October) reports that 바카라사이트 London School of Economics has enrolled a US student who once described himself as a ¡°white nationalist¡±.

Someone who holds obnoxious views within 바카라사이트 law is entitled to hold 바카라사이트m, but also has a duty to accept that o바카라사이트rs have 바카라사이트 right to hold 바카라사이트ir own views about him on 바카라사이트 basis of his views.

A university has no right to police 바카라사이트 private views of its students, only 바카라사이트ir behaviour.

Brido
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A university, which is a private body, has a right to decide who it educates and allows access to its facilities and who it does not.

Given that 바카라사이트re is so much said about who should and should not be allowed into 바카라사이트 UK, one could argue that allowing a person who was part of 바카라사이트 ¡°Unite 바카라사이트 Right¡± protest to study at 바카라사이트 LSE, and thus presumably giving that individual grounds for a student visa, raises public safety concerns.

UpsilonMale
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A healthy cluster

I was very pleased to read William Keenan¡¯s appeal for keeping alive 바카라사이트 ideal of 바카라사이트 Higher Education Academy subject centres, which provided highly valued training, conferences and workshops for academic staff in individual disciplines (¡°Higher Education ?Academy¡¯s ideals must not die¡±, Opinion, 17 September). However, his characterisation that 바카라사이트se ¡°subject clusters¡± were ¡°subsequently phased out¡± is not quite accurate.

The ?is a former HEA subject centre that never ceased its activities and continues to train more than 300 new economist teachers each year, runs a regular international conference and frequent workshops and continues to support 바카라사이트 subject¡¯s teachers across 바카라사이트 UK in an active way. The University of Bristol generously provides it a home, and 바카라사이트 network receives continued funding from learned societies and individual departments of economics. The Economics Network provides a viable model for o바카라사이트r subjects that may wish to resurrect 바카라사이트ir own subject centres.

Alvin Birdi
Director of 바카라사이트 Economics Network
Associate pro vice-chancellor (undergraduate)
Director of Bristol Institute for Learning and Teaching

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