From today's UK papers
Students paying too high a price Universities must be given tax breaks to build up funds to finance higher education, says Kenneth Baker, former education secretary, in an article extracted from a...
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Morris to cut bureaucracy Education secretary Estelle Morris is to cut red tape and improve professional development for college staff. Speaking at the Association of Colleges annual conference in...
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Canada opens up academic jobs market The Canadian federal government has announced that universities will now be allowed to advertise all vacancies simultaneously in Canada and abroad. Qualified...
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From today's UK papers
Ministers accused of grants u-turn The government was accused of presiding over a "mess" last night after it dropped plans to reintroduce maintenance grants of £3,800 a year for all students, weeks...
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APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS e-Learning Foundation Ray Moore , formerly at Birmingham Local Education Authority where he was programme manager for the city's learning project, has been appointed...
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Older workers to plug skills gap Apprenticeships should be offered to older workers to help tackle the skills gap facing industry, the Engineering Employers’ Federation said today. It called on the...
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From today's UK papers
Oxbridge colleges called to account A Cabinet Office investigation has found that 80 of the best endowed charities in the country do not file regular accounts with the Charity Commission - yet they...
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Academic shot dead in Bangladesh A Hindu academic has been shot dead in the Bangladesh city of Chittagong. Gopal Krishna Mahuri was shot at point-blank range by unidentified assailants who later...
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Don's Diary
Tuesday Fresh snow caps Inti Illimani as the plane lands 4,000m above sea level at La Paz airport in El Alto, Bolivia. Relishing the fresh, oxygen-starved air, I walk across to the airport buildings...
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Eyewitness: Shevardnadze meets students
Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze may have averted a potential threat to his power by meeting university students to defuse tensions after a week of anti-government demonstrations in the capital...
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First seeds of a fairer future
Stephanie became Steve to save her firm. Her gift to Balliol means women can thrive as themselves, Dorothy Zinberg says Oxford's Balliol College has excitedly plunged into a new venture - the...
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Only a spin doctor would prescribe a graduate tax
Labour's purported remedy for the crisis in universities is only a superficial solution, argues Kenneth Baker The crisis hitting our universities is caused not by social exclusion but by constant and...
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Last week in The THES ... Ron Iphofen presented his contract for supervising PhD students. If I am to be your PhD student, please understand the following: * Before you begin supervising me, please...
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Forget copycat management
Universities cannot get their management solutions off the peg, Michael Shattock writes. It is an open secret that the government does not think much of the way universities are managed, but it...
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Underpaid, overlooked
Universities should recognise the value of non-academic support staff, argues Valerie Atkinson. The problems experienced by academic support staff are well known: their increasing isolation; their...