Uni boss's pay tops Pounds 250,000
Britain's highest paid academic has broken through the Pounds 250,000 barrier, The THES can reveal. John Quelch, dean of the London Business School, earned Pounds 252,000 from public funds in the...
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Dundee University drugs research has been given a Pounds 1.3 million boost. Researchers, backed by the Medical Research Council, have been working with a consortium of major companies to create new...
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A new archive and research unit on German-Jewish communities was opened at the University of Sussex yesterday, on the day Germany held its official Holocaust Memorial Day. The centre for German-...
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Astronomers have resumed their exploration of the universe with the Hubble Space Telescope. Images of remote galaxies and dying stars have been issued for the first time since the Earth-orbiting eye...
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Vice-chancellor and top academic pay 1998-99
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* One of the United Kingdom's most respected scientists has been suspended from his post at Oxford University and has temporarily stepped down as a governor of the Wellcome Trust after complaints...
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Students occupied the School of African and Oriental Studies in London this week demanding that those unwilling or unable to pay tuition fees not be penalised. The college was closed after students...
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The number of computing and information science students at Scottish higher education institutions has risen by 9 per cent this year compared with 1998-99. This is the biggest rise in any subject...
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John Williams (above) has applied for early retirement as principal of North East Wales Institute. The institute faces an investigation into allegations of mismanagement, but Professor Williams says...
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Glasgow Caledonian University has reached a private settlement with former vice-principal John Phillips, fired for gross misconduct in July. Professor Phillips was vice-principal under former...
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Oxford Brookes University has been forced to back down on charging full-time undergraduate tuition fees of up to Pounds 4,700 for "private" courses. The fee was introduced for courses run principally...
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It would bring a tear to the eye of the most hardened vindaloo aficionado. Scientists have created a chemical compound that is 100 times hotter than the most potent chilli pepper. Fortunately,...
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* Courses in conservation need to involve more work experience and careers advice because of increasing self-employment among graduates, says a report published today. The study, carried out by the...
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Female figures that don't add up
Diana Green, salary:Pounds 101,000 + Janet Finch, salary: Pounds 93,000 + Alaine Sommerville, salary: Pounds 46,000 = Pounds 240,000. John Quelch's salary = Pounds 252,000 Female vice-chancellors are...
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In brief
Reading Jay Pasachoff's review of Carl Sagan: A Life, (Books, THES, January 21) reminded me of Sagan's appearance in Private Eye's Colemanballs. His contribution was: "The speed of light is very fast...