New hires:
https://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/our-people
de Ferra, Nathaniel Lane, Romei, Moneke
Exodus from Oxford
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Crazy ... and you still get some people saying this bunch is like LSE or UCL and better than Warwick. I just went through their faculty ... if you remove the amazing but old people (Klemperer, Crawford, etc) this is a complete joke of a department ... how is this possible? Why they don’t bring in some good young / active guy to turn things around?
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Crazy ... and you still get some people saying this bunch is like LSE or UCL and better than Warwick. I just went through their faculty ... if you remove the amazing but old people (Klemperer, Crawford, etc) this is a complete joke of a department ... how is this possible? Why they don’t bring in some good young / active guy to turn things around?
Almost no one at Oxford is a joke, you are not serious. This being said, it is true that other than the Nuffield fellows, the only people they manage to keep are the weaker ones of their hires. This should preoccupy them. But it seems like it does not.There are serious management issues at Oxford, that is for sure.
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Real profs don't do tutorials and find low paid tutors to do it for them. No prof at oxford wants to do tutorials, and exploit low paid phd studenrs and post doc in exchange. Guess what kind of tutor you can find for a room and a meal... the best undergrad teaching on earth.
Whereas at a US university you're taught by lowly paid PhD students, but in large classes.
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Crazy ... and you still get some people saying this bunch is like LSE or UCL and better than Warwick. I just went through their faculty ... if you remove the amazing but old people (Klemperer, Crawford, etc) this is a complete joke of a department ... how is this possible? Why they don’t bring in some good young / active guy to turn things around?
Almost no one at Oxford is a joke, you are not serious. This being said, it is true that other than the Nuffield fellows, the only people they manage to keep are the weaker ones of their hires. This should preoccupy them. But it seems like it does not.There are serious management issues at Oxford, that is for sure.
Sounds about right, they only keep the very weak hires, good people leave. GU leaving soon also.
Why they don’t bring in some good young / active guy to turn things around?
Low pay, very high housing costs, backward colleges with old arrogant fellows, endless bureaucracy at colleges, very low research budgets. Expectations by the university (division) that Professors live out of prestige, and unnecessary incentives to get grants instead of actual top publications. Add to that the UK is leaving EU soon and as a result, the pounds will keep falling.
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New hires:
https://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/our-people
de Ferra, Nathaniel Lane, Romei, MonekeFour ASSOCIATE professors at Oxford, they add a grand total of 1 top publication (pub coauthored with senior academics). Also, two of them were a partner hire, one with very little prospects. Guess they needed people to endure endless college teaching. Let´s do a predictive model here:
Four ASSOCIATE professors at the "top" university of the world, gives you how many top pubs gathered? .... 1
Standards for being ASSOCIATE prof at the "top" university in the world higher than ever!
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GU already at UCLs page
Good for him! Great academic. Most likely Oxford in its never-ending arrogance made no effort whatsoever to keep him. Maybe offered a couple of extra glasses of wine a week, or maybe an extra dessert on Tues and Thurs during term time.
Most likely they thought they could hire equally good or better people, because anyone would go to Oxford .... yeah right. Clearly deluded and out of touch administration with econ job market.
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2 top 5s in 20 years = endowed chair at Oxford.
This is worse than I thought. Competition at the top, lol
Oxford has just hired a QMUL star, who was given an endowed chair. Tough competition at the top, Warwick out of the game.
only Warwick, UEast Anglia and Queen Mary are top top. Oxford doomed.
Yep, and now she's listed on the website...