Military metaphor
You report that universities prepared for the millennium "with military rigour" ("Hogmanay tactics", THES, December 24/31). This was a sobering metaphor as it conveyed surprise that universities...
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A Wellcome thought
The Wellcome Trust is concerned about building a synchrotron at the Daresbury site, which is on a slight incline ("Wellcome bias stirs up unions", THES, December 10). The Japanese have built a...
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$25 million way to go
Kristi Coale examines the landmark deal between Swiss biotech giant Novartis and the University of California, Berkeley that frees researchers from the need to pursue funding and gives the company...
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Bett fails to win national support
Universities have voted overwhelmingly to negotiate lecturers' terms and conditions of work locally, posing a threat to the Bett report's central recommendation. Vice-chancellors are being asked to...
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Kindred spirits in South Yorks
Far from being considered neighbours from hell, students are largely seen as a welcome addition to the local community, at least in Sheffield. Steve Huckerby, studying for a joint geography-sociology...
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Tories launch assault on fees 'fudge'
Olga Wojtas on the latest reactions to the Cubie report into student finance. The Cubie inquiry was launched to take the heat out of political battles over tuition fees in the new Scottish Parliament...
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Pounds 5,000 a year proposed to entice trainee teachers
The government should earmark an extra Pounds 150 million to pay student teachers on top of the Pounds 5 billion investment to expand higher education and maintain quality. That is the argument of...
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Students hindered by money worries
Olga Wojtas on the latest reactions to the Cubie report into student finance. Prospective students believe short-term financial sacrifices are outweighed by the long-term gains of a higher "graduate...
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Parliament urged to implement all of Cubie
Olga Wojtas on the latest reactions to the Cubie report into student finance. Scottish students and academics have banded together to urge the Scottish Parliament not to "cherry-pick" the Pounds 71...
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Do v-cs have lifelong habit?
Christine King is vice-chancellor of Staffordshire University. When not engaged in the duties that entails, she writes about Elvis Presley and Nazi Germany, studies garden design and yearns to take a...
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Low pay is at heart of sector's recruitment problems
Low pay is the single biggest reason for the difficulties universities face in recruiting and keeping lecturers, according to a new survey. But the report by Riley Communications says that, as a rule...
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Job pressures keep staff from taking holidays
Academics are too busy to take their holiday entitlement, a survey has found, writes Michael Bird. The University of the West of England branch of the lecturers' union Natfhe found that many take...
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Same fee for all, but three times the value for some
Some students have three times as much cash available to be spent on them as others, in spite of paying exactly the same Pounds 1,025 tuition fee, new figures show. Statistics compiled by university...
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North Brum 'landmark'
North Birmingham College has joined the growing ranks of education institutions facing employment tribunals under new laws designed to protect whistleblowers. Ian Walker, a business studies lecturer...
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Darker shade of Oxbridge blue?
Suicides among the bright young things of Oxford and Cambridge attract a great deal of media attention, but are the rates in fact any higher than for students elsewhere? Claire Sanders reports In...