Your leader says I am not a maverick. But I am, as is anyone these days who believes that universities and their staff should be trusted to do a good job, until they demonstrate that they cannot. This would apply to any university that does not have well-funded and benign appraisal and associated professional development arrangements for its staff, with sanctions for those who show that they cannot be trusted to take advantage of them.
Lewis Elton
Professor of higher education
University College London