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The weekly magazine Referee tactics for higher education Students shown redcard forbad behaviour 7 We sing their praises THE’s different take on NewYear Honours 24 Public vision and values Elite rewards: pay David Willetts on lifting for Russell Group thecap on numbers 36 v-cs rockets 6 Elementary force www.timeshighereducation.co.uk Sherlock, averyBritish Twitter: @timeshighered superhero 40 The outsiders Non-EU scholars in theUKtell of lifeinterrupted £2.90 2-8 January 2014 No. 2,133 CONTENTS News People Features 4 The week in higher 22 Obituary 30 Cover story education Rulan Chao Pian Legal limbo 6 As tuition fees rise, 22 HE &me 26 Cap’soff, door’sopen: v-cs’ pay soars Simon Marginson David Willetts on the case 7 Lecturers show red cards 23 THE Scholarly Web for freeing student numbers to Jack the Lad Campus cartels 8 Potential winners: use of Culture tests of thinking skills for Opinion Arts admissions set to grow 5 Leader 40 9 More promotions are The gap between words the aim of axeing of posts, and actions says Kingston’shead 24 The exploitation of junior BBC/HArtswood Films 10 Uclan’sworld of woe researchers by supervisors 11 You’re with us or against must be halted, declares us, King’stells students’ Brian Martin legal champion 24 12 Apersonal angle keeps miles Cole postdocs interested Man of steel true 13 Drive-by beauties Books 14 Campus round-up 42 Old ways 16 Sifting Soviet archives 43 What are you reading? to get to the truth 44 One question: ‘cui bono?’ 16 News in brief 46 Those magnificent men 17 Dealing with dissent and their sailing machines on the West Bank 18 UK-Israel scheme is 48 THEAppointments rebuilding, on many fronts 20 Getty Title matches: an 56 Laurie Taylor alternative honours list 56 Index 26 Status hunger games: Roger Brown on the cost Next week of building brands 27 Kevin Fong We are not worthy: Present and correct why do many academics 28 Letters secretly feel they are not up to the job? Sir Ivor Crewe on the UK’s Cabinets of Blunders 21 Grant winners Cover/AlAmy 2January2014 Times Higher Education 3 neWs The year in higher educaTion quoTes Christmas is over and winter’s lll“I can’t believe you can’t alignment across ateam through always accurate) also produced grip will tighten in the grey weeks think of better questions than this co-creation and addressing all some memorable quotes. “Ready, ahead. The only crumb of dude, Ireally can’t.” THE was needs.” Meanwhile, for Rebecca fire, aim” was the radical strategy consolation offered by the again addressed as “dude” by Price, partner at marketing agency proposed in March by Nick Pet- New Year is the chance to take aman of acertain age –this time Frank, Bright &Abel, universities ford, vice-chancellor of the Uni- stock of the past 12 months and by writer Hanif Kureishi in a trying too hard to emulate their versity of Northampton, who told to learn some lessons for the November “HE &me” interview high-status rivals were like ateen- aconference that universities future in aspirit of clear-eyed after he was appointed professor age girl “who’s got black hair and should “get ready, fire and then self-knowledge. For Times Higher at Kingston University. Was Mr brown eyes who longs to be think about it afterwards” when Education one lesson is crystal- Kureishi skilfully deconstructing blonde-haired and blue-eyed”. In trying new ideas. That strategy clear: never interview Bob Geldof the format of the Q&A interview November, she advised institutions had already been adopted by the again. Here are afew of the most or is he just apain? We leave it “to get to the point where they University of Central Lancashire memorable –and sometimes least to his new colleagues at Kingston realise: ‘Look love, you may not be when it inserted itself into one lucid – THE quotes from 2013. to judge. blonde-haired and blue-eyed, but of the most heavily militarised you’re lovely, and this is how you’ll places on the planet –building lll“Dude, Ihaven’t afucking lllMarketing and branding make the best of it’.” Ms Price’s its Cyprus campus in the United clue.” It may sound like David consultants would tell you that problem was the opposite of Nations buffer zone separating Willetts explaining the long-term their expertise is needed more eatbigfish’s –her meaning was clear. the island’s Greek and Turkish funding plan behind the abolition than ever by universities seeking communities. That brought of student number controls. But it to navigate an emerging market. lllUniversities and the men criticism from the UN secretary was actually Mr Geldof, after But marketing and branding con- who lead them (that’s nearly general, Ban Ki-Moon, who said being asked by THE about the sultants do, also, talk some formid- the campus “raised concerns with topic of aguest lecture he was able nonsense. September brought regard to security, and law and about to give afew minutes later. news that the University of Essex order”, it emerged in January. Speaking before the January event had shelled out for advice from News, page10 at Hult International Business the consultancy eatbigfish and its School, he cheerfully admitted “Challenger Lighthouse Identity lllFinally, there was afond that he had “never heard of the Programme”. The scheme is for farewell to the 1994 Group, place”. Luckily, he managed to brands that “project what they which disbanded in November pull together some thoughts believe like alighthouse” and are with its member vice-chancellors on the lecture topic of leadership “anchored on aproduct rock”. In declaring that it had come to a and entrepreneurship based on what appears to be English, the “natural end point” –sonatural his career in the Boomtown Rats. firm added of the programme: an expiration that it happened at Mr Geldof concluded: “Now “With strategy and execution run- aboard meeting only days before I’ve thought about that I’ll waffle ning together the deliverables for the group was to relaunch after on about that for an hour [for the process are both tangible –a acostly rebranding exercise. the lecture] and that’ll be it… 3-5 year vision and illustrative Hopefully higher education can what was the other thing Iwas executional ideas to accompany it avoid too many sudden “natural supposed to be talking about?” –and intangible –ownership and end points” in the year ahead. 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She is referring to its insistence that it wants Whether it convinces depends, perhaps, on to nurture higher education as aglobal trump whether you see the latest policy bombshell – card while simultaneously engaging in the the lifting of the student numbers cap –as but found immigration-bashing that hits overseas staff arelease from state shackles or the unleashing and students. of yet stronger market forces that will further It’sclear that the government has asplit undermine the pure purpose of higher educa- personality on this issue, with the Home Office tion (the waters are muddied further by the wanting? openly at war with the Department for Busi- absence of acredible funding plan). ness, Innovation and Skills –but is it the only It also depends on what you think the example of acontradictory approach to higher impact has been of shifting so much of the David Willetts’ finely balanced education? funding burden from the state to the student. aims for higher education are While David Willetts has been astaunch In our opinions pages this week, Roger defender of higher education as an inter- Brown, emeritus professor of higher educa- too often belied by the impact national export, there is afeeling among some tion, argues that to preserve both the public of his government’spolicies that the universities minister has said one thing and private benefits, “tuition fees need to and done another in the course of his reforms.
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