Disputes soar over job terms
Scotland's Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service has revealed a dramatic increase in tertiary sector disputes over pay and conditions. Frank Blair, director of Acas Scotland, presenting its...
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1980s disasters tracked
The sociology of disasters is still an unexplored field, Anne Eyre of Coventry University told delegates. Dr Eyre is conducting a study of the long-term effects of some 1980s tragedies. The 1980s saw...
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Truth behind heroes
The Battle of Britain air crews, credited with saving the country in the dark days of 1940, are generally thought of as dashing, public school-educated young men. Researchers at Edinburgh University...
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Money grows on trees
Agroforestry can yield dividends for British farmers according to research at Bangor University's school of agriculture and forest science. A test site at Loughgall, County Armagh in Northern Ireland...
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Minority numbers plummet
The number of minority students offered places at California's top public universities has plummeted by more than half. The figures, which have dismayed university officials, may fuel a national...
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Harvard limits use of name
Harvard University has set strict limits on the use of its name and crest by its faculty and staff. It is the first United States higher education institution to do so. Administrators say they took...
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Massive protests attack Oz policy
They marched and sang, they listened to rousing speeches, and they chanted for hours outside state and federal parliaments across the nation's capitals. It may have been April 1, but the thousands of...
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Beijing offers MBAs with US recognition
A Sino-US initiative announced by Beijing University should lift the number of Chinese-educated MBAs in the next few years. With increasing numbers of Chinese firms entering the international market...
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Mediation fails to solve row over promotion
Cambridge University has been unable to reach agreement on the independent mediation of an appeal court judge in its four-year row with history lecturer Gill Evans. The dispute over Cambridge's...
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Sack for don active in politics
A leading member of the Belorusian opposition has lost her university post and other academic staff active in the pro-democracy movement have been told they face the sack if they continue with their...
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Ministers stick to fees rules
MINISTERS will clarify the position of Oxbridge colleges in relation to top-up fees when they discuss the Teaching and Higher Education bill in the Commons after Easter. They are likely to make it...
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Exam bonus lost in the mists of accounts
It was an idea Robin Hood would have been proud of: German university professors should give up the bonus payments they receive for each exam they supervise and the money saved would be ploughed back...
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Reforms honed to Europe
France's university degree system faces profound change if reforms proposed by a commission of inquiry into higher education go ahead. Chaired by Jacques Attali, a state counsellor and former head of...
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Belorus pilots entryby exam
Education ministers in Belorus have taken the first step towards a unified, European-style system of university entrance by running a pilot programme to introduce written school-leaving exams. The...
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Berlinguer's slow road to radicalism
The ills of the university system and the possibility of radical reforms are today one of the most hotly debated issues in Italian politics and the media. If this is the case, it is at least partly...