Monthly Archives: January 2015

The Ugly Duckling

Ratty’s twitching snout has spotted another potential award, a race equality charter mark, which is something like the Athena SWAN he’s been crowing about lately, the award for widening participation but more an ugly duckling with this VC’s track record. … Continue reading

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Tales of the Riverbank – January

Welcome to 2015 – Hapless New Year. Janus the Roman God of transition looked forwards and back. A lot of people call me “two-faced” nowadays! – not surprising when I call you all “great” on the one hand, and threaten … Continue reading

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Festival of Lesley

Dear All, Given that we are ‘Led by Lesley’ this showcase of me and my so-called scholarship is clearly of equal importance to my reputation and the REF and is a key way of pretending we are actually doing key … Continue reading

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18% to 42% bullying rate in HE

This blog has mentioned bullying rather a lot lately … well, there’s a lot of it about, not just in Kingston. The Guardian has published a series of articles on the subject. Kingston has its share of bullies from top … Continue reading

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Well RCUK me, I’ll be a son of a REF!

“… if you design a Soviet-style planning system, you will get tractors.” It takes a bit of nerve to criticise the march towards totalitarianism in universities, especially if you work at Warwick, but Andrew Oswald, professor of Economics at that … Continue reading

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