Assessment reassessed
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The only publications which appeared to count in the 1996 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) were monographs from academic publishers and full-length papers in refereed journals, but publishers will not produce unsaleable books, however worthy they might be. The RAE also subverts the natural process whereby academics write the 'big' books and articles when young and move towards guiding the efforts of their successors as they approach retirement. The RAE appeared to involve an element of personal assessment yet the individuals concerned had no knowledge of the process by which they were scored.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1997
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An Oksforder's blues
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Internationally renowned Yiddish scholar Dovid Katz is living alone in a cottage in North Wales, with money a serious problem, following his acrimonious departure from the Institute of Yiddish Studies in Oxford, England. Katz claims to be the victim of a plot to oust him from the Institute by merging it with the European Humanities Research Centre. Katz has dropped his claim of constructive dismissal and the allegations of racial abuse he had made against the institute's director of policy Marie Wright, but his relief that the court case is over is offset by the need to pay lawyers' fees.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1998
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An uncertain future without anti-Semitism
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Past persecution has failed to destroy Judaism and has united a people in shared traditions and reinvigorated Jewish life. Rabbi Dan Cohn-Sherbok argues that Jewish survival and Jew-hatred are interconnected.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2006
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