Titles given for 'wrong reasons'

Article Abstract:

Michael Hyland, professor of health psychology at Plymouth University, warned delegates at the National Conference of University Professors that universities are in danger of devaluing the title of professor in their efforts to woo the best new research staff. Hyland argued that new universities are using the offer of a professorship in order to attract good researchers away from traditional universities, regardless of whether the researcher actually deserves the title.

Public affairs, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Speeches, lectures and essays, Hyland, Michael

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Goodbye to Easy Street

Article Abstract:

An examination of how university staff in the UK spend what are called their summer "holidays". It is argued that for university staff, the summer period is now filled by conferences and research and that perhaps a lesson could be learnt from university staff in countries such as France, where for the whole of August the cities effectively empty, or in Scandinavia where the midsummer period is regarded as sacrosanct.

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Attention, s'ilvous plait

Article Abstract:

The innovative efforts by lecturers to meet increasingly diverse needs in language teaching are discussed.

Methods, Study and teaching, Second languages, Second language instruction

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