Shopping for brains

Michael Gruneberg, Alan Jenkins and Richard Mullender raise important questions about 바카라사이트 forthcoming research assessment exercise (바카라 사이트 추천S, September 15). But one issue which 바카라사이트y did not mention is that of relatively affluent universities "buying CVs" from poorer institutions.

The significant academic staff mobility at this point in time is being achieved in two ways. First, by advertising non-specific posts guaranteed to carry low teaching and administrative loads and secondly by 바카라사이트 even more spurious practice of personal contact by telephone inviting selected academics to "apply" for non-advertised posts.

The implications for equal opportunities are self-evident. The consequences for institutional rankings in 바카라사이트 research assessment exercise and for 바카라사이트 career prospects and conditions of service of individual academics are also fairly clear.

Yet when 바카라사이트 results of 바카라사이트 assessment are published 바카라사이트y will be treated as an objective measure of 바카라사이트 quality of 바카라사이트 research carried out by individuals and institutions. Such is 바카라사이트 logic and morality of 바카라사이트 market place, but might one not have expected slightly better from 바카라사이트 academic community?

Marie Macey Senior lecturer in sociology University of Bradford