Commonwealth association debate
A number of London-based organisations, including the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the Association of Commonwealth Universities, has called an open meeting to discuss creating an Association...
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AoC puts past behind with board election
The Association of Colleges has elected a new board to break from the regime associated with former chief executive Roger Ward. In February, the board stood down after a vote of no confidence over...
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Pounds 1m a month to service loan debt
THE Department for Education and Employment will pay millions of pounds in annual subsidy charges to the company that bought the the first chunk of student loan debt, it was confirmed this week....
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Unions fight casualisation trend
MORE than 40 per cent of academic teaching and/or research staff in universities are on fixed-term contracts, according to figures published by the eight main higher education unions, which launched...
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Pay deal on the cards
Delegates to Unison's higher education service group annual conference last week voted against throwing out the current pay offer before balloting members, but in favour of preparing for strike...
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Union members ask for large wage increase
Further education college lecturers will formally submit this year's pay claim to employers today. Members of the Natfhe and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers are asking for "a substantial...
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Profits row set for court
The Association of University Teachers is considering legal action against Nottingham University because, it claims, the profit-related pay scheme fails to offer a fair deal to fixed-term employees....
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AUT 'names and shames' on equality
LEAGUE tables of institutions with a low number of women in senior posts have been published for the first time, writes Harriet Swain. The tables, drawn up by the Association of University Teachers,...
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Low pay, low gain
EACH WEEK Gwen Brymer takes home Pounds 112, from which she needs to pay for council tax, rent, food, clothes, water, gas and electricity. She has worked at the University of Surrey for 20 years and...
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Cannadine aims to raise cash
London's Institute of Historical Research is set to embark on a fundraising drive under its new director, writes Huw Richards. David Cannadine, who succeeded Patrick O'Brien at the start of the month...
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Police in dispute on APU claim
Hate-mail against staff who have supported complaints of nepotism and bullying at Anglia Polytechnic University is not being investigated internally, despite an initial assurance that it would be. A...
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Iceman cometh
The twists and turns of industrial relations are evidently exciting enough to persuade Bleiman's employer, David Triesman, AUT general secretary, that something equally exhilarating is needed to fill...
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Celtic boycott
Despite the difficulties besetting further education, not one critical motion was passed at the annual conference of the Educational Institute of Scotland College Lecturers' Association on Saturday....
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Wage admittance
A psychologist at Leeds University wonders whether any significance should be attached to the fact that the university's pay slips now advertise loans. Perhaps, he muses in the University Reporter,...
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Hancock's half minute
Is London Guildhall University never going to be able to forget the financial troubles that nearly capsized it? Take this week's gathering in Victoria Tower Gardens, next to the Houses of Parliament...