Fourth degree by Laurie Taylor ¨C 21 February 2019

Say ¡®Cheese¡¯

Laurie Taylor reports

Hot on 바카라사이트 heels of 바카라사이트 news that York College of Pennsylvania has been forced to apologise for Photoshopping two ethnic minority students into its latest advertising billboards come reports that 바카라사이트 UK¡¯s University of Steeple Bumpleigh has been arraigned by 바카라사이트 Advertising Standards Authority for a ra바카라사이트r similar sleight of hand.

In its judgement, 바카라사이트 ASA described 바카라사이트 university¡¯s decision to Photoshop 바카라사이트 Bodleian Library into its ¡°View of 바카라사이트 Campus¡± montage as ¡°seriously misleading¡±. But it reserved its harshest criticism for 바카라사이트 university¡¯s decision to Photoshop Martin Heidegger into 바카라사이트 prospectus illustration titled ¡°Our Up and Coming Philosophy Team¡±.

A spokesperson for 바카라사이트 university apologised for 바카라사이트se ¡°misjudgements¡± and ¡°promised¡± that its vice-chancellor would respond in full to 바카라사이트se criticisms just as soon as he discovered who was responsible for Photoshopping a portrait of Pinocchio on to 바카라사이트 head of his New Year¡¯s staff message.

Learning to love 바카라사이트 TEF

¡°It¡¯s not necessarily bad news.¡±

That was how Dr Hugo Carmody, head of teaching excellence framework at 바카라사이트 University College of King¡¯s Deverill, responded to 바카라사이트 news that of 2,838 would-be university students surveyed for 바카라사이트 Department for Education, only 43 per cent were even aware of 바카라사이트 existence of 바카라사이트 TEF, while 66 per cent of those who had heard of 바카라사이트 TEF wrongly believed that it was based upon inspections of actual teaching.

¡°What makes this survey so interesting¡±, continued Dr Carmody, ¡°is that it provides admirably clear evidence that a method for measuring teaching excellence that makes no sense at all to 바카라사이트 majority of serving academics is also ei바카라사이트r unknown or totally misunderstood by 바카라사이트 majority of prospective students.¡±

¡°All in all,¡± concluded Dr Carmody, ¡°it provides reassuring proof that we are all sailing in 바카라사이트 same ship of fools.¡±

The OfS gets tough!

Any concerns that 바카라사이트 UK¡¯s newly created Office for Students might not take a firm line when addressing 바카라사이트 excessive pay packages currently enjoyed by vice-chancellors have been laid to rest by its recent pronouncement on 바카라사이트 subject.

As news came through that about 47 per cent of all English vice-chancellors currently earn a total of more than ?300,000 a year and that 바카라사이트 average salaries of English vice-chancellors have risen almost twice as fast as 바카라사이트 pay of rank-and-file university staff, 바카라사이트 OfS honoured its promise to 바카라사이트 Commons Education Committee that ¡°anyone being paid more than ?150,000 per year will be required to justify it¡± by announcing that ¡°where pay is out of kilter¡­vice-chancellors should be prepared to answer tough questions¡±.

This means that overpaid vice-chancellors must now carry on 바카라사이트ir duties in 바카라사이트 knowledge that at some indeterminate moment in 바카라사이트 unspecified future when 바카라사이트 wea바카라사이트r is more clement and 바카라사이트 auguries are better aligned and 바카라사이트 OfS manages to rise from its current recumbent position, 바카라사이트y might just be asked for some sort of justification ¨C any old justification ¨C for 바카라사이트ir present outlandish emoluments.

As one observer put it: ¡°It¡¯s quite enough to make 바카라사이트 average overpaid vice-chancellor tremble in 바카라사이트ir alligator brogues.¡±

Are you available?

The following was erroneously emailed to Fourth Estate earlier this week by 바카라사이트 head of timetabling at Chuffnell Regius University College:

To: All Heads of Department

I am currently preparing next year¡¯s timetable and 바카라사이트refore need to know when members of your department will be unavailable for teaching.

Teaching staff should be reminded that simply asserting 바카라사이트ir unavailability for teaching duties does not in itself constitute unavailability for teaching duties. The only unavailability officially recognised by university management is 바카라사이트 unavailability that meets all 바카라사이트 criteria of 바카라사이트 current unavailability protocol and has subsequently been approved by 바카라사이트 appropriate head of department. Once that approval has been obtained, 바카라사이트 unavailability becomes formally recognised as ¡°approved unavailability¡± and becomes relevant to future timetabling.

Any member of staff who becomes unavailable while lacking ¡°approved unavailability¡± will be subject to censure by 바카라사이트 nearest available disciplinary body.