Criminal investigation into hate-mail
Police have opened a criminal investigation into a hate-mail campaign against six academics at Anglia Polytechnic University's business school. Five senior staff and one former member of staff, who...
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Science ministers to discuss Framework
European science ministers will meet in London next week to discuss management of the European Union's Framework programme of science research. The informal meeting comes as proposals for the Fifth...
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COSHEP elects Graham-Bryce convener
Ian Graham-Bryce, principal of Dundee University, has been elected convener of the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals. He will succeed Richard Shaw, principal of Paisley University, on...
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Bath joins Swindon/Wiltshire project
The University of Bath and the University for Swindon and Wiltshire Project yesterday signed a formal partnership agreement. In September, full-time students will enrol on HND courses developed via...
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Colleges cough up Pounds 15m to help students
The "collapse" of local authority student support has forced colleges to find Pounds 15 million to help students, says an Association of Colleges survey. This year, more than 14 per cent of full-time...
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Acute lack of childcare for FE student parents
More than 25,000 student parents in further education need childcare places while more than 100 colleges offer no childcare facilities, a survey has found. The report, for FE Now magazine, says that...
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Scots reopen Odessa file
ST ANDREWS University's court is to review links with Odessa in Ukraine following a former student's allegations that she was raped on an exchange course in 1996. The woman is taking legal advice on...
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Widow wins asbestos pay-out
LONDON's Imperial College of Science and Technology has made an out-of-court settlement following the death of a former lecturer from asbestos-related mesothelioma. The claim was settled by the...
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Academy rests case
SOCIAL scientists will today move closer to having their own academy in line with the Royal Society, the British Academy and the Royal Academy of Engineering. If all goes to plan, the academy will be...
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Employers revise pay deal up to 2.9 per cent
INDUSTRIAL action by university staff now looks less likely following a marginally revised pay offer from employers this week. But union negotiators said they remained disappointed at the deal, which...
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Students in dark over loan payments
FIRST-year students will be "signing blind" to loan agreements this autumn because the government is still working out details for a repayment mechanism, it emerged this week. Education minister Kim...
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Brain and brawn
(Photograph) - Brain and brawn: miners at Cleveland Potash are learning to be trainers in a staff development programme organised by Teesside University to encourage staff to take NVQs in various...
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Sociologist fights dismissal
TROUBLED Doncaster College was in the limelight this week as the case of lecturer John Giddins, who claims wrongful dismissal, came to industrial tribunal in Sheffield. Mr Giddins was made...
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Floud to sit on new London board
Roderick Floud, provost of London Guildhall University, is to represent further and higher education on the new London Development Partnership. The LDP has been set up to handle regeneration issues...
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Sectarian killers praise lifelong learning
Northern Ireland's "most vicious killers" could prove role models for community involvement in the country's first post-Dearing campus, an Ulster University professor has claimed. Wallace Ewart is...