Teaching is decent where I work, albeit with some shit-shadows. Elsewhere......I was looking at Medway University (or whatever they call themselves) a while ago. It is clearly a glove-puppet institution.
My worst ever PhD student, lazy, dissembling, submitted her thesis hours before being...
I suspect you may have misunderstood my point. I said 'that's like saying Johnson set is free is naïve'. Meanining, it isn't naive. It is Utter Bollocks. As was the explanation given by my head of department. I hope I have explained better what I meant. :thumbsup:
From what I have seen of 'new' (built from the mid 50s onwards) universities and former polys (a good pal is a head of department at one) and from my 40 year 'career' in academic research, there is no chance of obtaining research cachet and income if you are outside the top 20. And outside the...
In Canterbury there has been masses of new building - halls of residence. I smell a tory cash cow on a par with residential care homes. At my uni in London there is a prime piece of real estate demolished and new-built as halls. Does my uni own these new halls? Nope.