“A Trinity College lecturer at the centre of an eight-year harassment investigation involving a female colleague has said such claims should be handled by gardaí and not college authorities …” (more)
[Mark Hilliard, Sunday Tribune, 30 May]
“… My personal reaction on hearing of the petition was to check a few facts to see if there was another side to the story. The first point to emerge was that neither Evans nor his colleague worked in evolutionary biology or zoology. His post was in a Medical Education Unit in the School of Medicine, and his PhD was in philosophy …” (more)
[BishopBlog, 30 May]
“Universities overlook ways to make savings simply because they do not focus on institution-wide schemes. Although the chancellor has just announced £200 million in cuts across the higher education budget, on top of cuts announced by the last administration, there is concern that with a new government and an empty Treasury, more reductions lie ahead …” (more)
[Ray Fleming, Times Higher Education, 30 May]
“Ellen Schrecker, a history professor at New York City’s Yeshiva University, starts The Lost Soul of Higher Education with a blunt assessment: ‘In reacting to the economic insecurities of the past forty years, the nation’s colleges and universities have adopted corporate practices that degrade undergraduate instruction, marginalize faculty members, and threaten the very mission of the academy as an institution devoted to the common good’ …” (more)
[Eleanor J Bader, truthout, 28 May]
“A teacher support charity says more lecturers in further and higher education are seeking support because of the current funding crisis. Calls to the College and University Support Network rose by a quarter to 10,162 in the year to May 2010 …” (more)
[BBC News, 29 May]
“The European University Association has called on the continent’s governments to commit to major investment in higher education and research, and to renew efforts to reach the Barcelona target of 3% of GDP investment in research and the 2% investment in higher education proposed by the European Commission …” (more)
[University World News, 30 May]
“As technologies such as virtualisation and cloud computing assume important places within the information technology landscape, higher education leaders will need to consider which institutional services they wish to leave to consumer choice, which ones they wish to source and administer ‘somewhere else’, and which services they should operate centrally or locally on campus …” (more)
[University World News, 30 May]
