Controversial Cardiff keeps it in the family
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It is suggested that Cardiff University is earning itself a reputation for nepotism in its recruitment policy following the announcement that Helen Sampson has been appointed to the position of director of Cardiff's Seafarers International Research Centre, which is part of the School of Social Sciences, which is run by her husband, Huw Beynon. Sampson, who had been deputy director of the centre, did not initially apply for the job, but after the appointment panel, which included her husband, rejected the first three applicants for the post, Sampson put her name forward. The appointment follows the controversy generated in late-2002 when the University awarded an un-advertised special UKPd11,500 research bursary to the sister of one of the university's senior staff when she failed to win PhD funding through the school's nationally advertised doctoral studentships competition.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2003
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College heads criticise AoC selection process
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The search for a new chief executive of the Association of Colleges has been blighted by allegations of a potential conflict of interest. Imogen Wilde, a senior civil servant at the Department of Education and Skills who is currently on secondment at Norman Broadbent, an executive recruitment company, is handling the search for potential candidates for the UKPd120,000/yr role, and the Council for Academic Freedom and Academic Standards has complained that Wilde's position compromises the selection process and brings up wider concerns about civil servants using their knowledge in order to help commercial organisations. Concern has also been expressed by college principals.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2003
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Marks U-turn is 'mockery of exam process'
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Professor Buckland has resigned from Bournemouth University, displeased that his decision to fail 13 students had been overruled by senior managers and the students had been re-marked and allowed to progress without consultation. He states that the process of examination has become a mere formality, and the unfair process of marking totally negates the hard work of other students.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2007
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