Education Matters: It's Time to See Through the Name Game ; Never Mind the Bullock

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Reading recently that Warwick University has decided to give all its lecturers the title of "professor" (either "assistant professor" for junior staff and "associate professor" for senior lecturers), I couldn't help thinking of WS Gilbert's words: "When everyone is somebody, then no-one's anybody."

It doesn't, however, surprise me, given the semantic gymnastics that have characterised education as a whole in recent years. First, "polytechnics" became "universities" to prove that they were not inferior establishments, and since then, the practice has really caught on in other branches of education.

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Education Matters: It's Time to See Through the Name Game ; Never Mind the Bullock

Schools soon latched onto the giving of pompous titles for straightforward things by replacing...

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