by CDBU Admin | Mar 17, 2015 | CDBU Updates, Opinion, REF
By the CDBU Steering Committee Last Thursday evening, academic staff at the Department of Politics at the University of Surrey received a communication from the department of Human Resources informing them of a proposal for ‘restructuring’ the Faculty of...
by CDBU Admin | Nov 13, 2014 | Casual staff, Opinion, TEF
Opinion piece by Dorothy Bishop, 13 November 2014 Universities have become obsessed with competition: it is no longer enough to do well; you have to demonstrate you are better than the rest. And to do that, you need some kind of metric. Organisations have grown up to...