UUK: cast net wide for top staff

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Universities UK has published a new set of guidelines for university chiefs in which it urges them to look outside the traditional old boys' network when they are looking for their senior managers. The guidelines, which aim to improve the diversity and quality of leadership in the university sector, also advises universities to remove the process of decision-making over top appointments from metaphorical smoke-filled rooms and open deliberations up so that failed applicants can scrutinise them.

Human resource management, College administration, Company personnel management

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High on class, low on content?

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An analysis of a survey of 376 academics at universities in the United Kingdom in which questions were asked about the standard of college degrees. The survey revealed that 55% of academics believed that students at their institutions were getting degrees that their work did not warrant, while 50% of respondents believed that the rigour of assessment in their departments was being reduced in order to improve student success rates.

College teachers, College faculty, Surveys, Educational standards

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Liverpool slated as number of firsts soar

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Liverpool University has been accused of lowering academic standards after reforms introduced during the pay dispute led to 72 percent of students reciving a first or upper second, compared with 63 percent in 2005. An internal analysis of degree results carried out by history staff shows that 23 of the 37 history students receiving firsts this year would not have gained a first prior to the reforms.

Reports, Labor relations

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