Why minds don't meet
Jon Nixon asks why academics are "not guiding their personal tutees on at least a weekly basis through the intricacies of academic choice and those relating to social well-being" (Letters, 7 April)....
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Give jaw-jaw a chance
While I fully accept Tom Hickey's arguments about the unfair and significant losses that university employers seek to inflict on staff by their hard line on changes to the Universities Superannuation...
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Plate-glass perils
To Salford's Sue Powell ("Staines has fallen", Letters, 7 April), surely aiming brickbats at "philistines" is an ill-advised activity for senior academics living in plate-glass universities?Anthony...
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Liam Burns elected as next NUS president
Liam Burns has been elected as the next president of the National Union of Students, pledging to “reject the idea of students as consumers” and “dismantle the fees regime”.
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Scottish universities ‘should follow the Ivy League model’
Scottish universities should privatise and adopt an Ivy League-style system of high tuition fees and bursaries to protect their standing, according to a leading educationalist.
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Nearly one in ten Salford staff jobs may go
The University of Salford has announced that up to 218 jobs are at risk in a move that affects around one in 10 staff at the institution.
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So long and sorry: NUS’ Porter apologises for lack of planning over protests
The outgoing president of the National Union of Students has used an opening speech at its annual conference to apologise for elements of his “controversial” tenure.
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Clegg is odd man out in MPs’ call for University of Sheffield pensions rethink
The University of Sheffield has put on hold plans to cut the pensions of its lowest-paid staff after all local MPs with the exception of deputy prime minister Nick Clegg “urged a rethink”.
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Sheffield, Southampton, Soas, University of the Arts London unveil £9K fees
Four more English universities have unveiled plans to charge the top rate of tuition fees, bringing the number to have opted for the maximum to 32 of the 44 institutions to date that have stated...
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Status report: paper highlights slide in US pay and conditions
US academics are seeing “historic lows” in their pay and conditions, according to a report published today.
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Worcester head: protesters, you have my sympathy
A vice-chancellor has spoken of his “sympathy” for students in England who took to the streets to protest against rises in university tuition fees.
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University College Falmouth and Keele University opt for £9K fees
University College Falmouth plans to charge tuition fees of £9,000 in 2012.
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Used and abused?
External examiner James Derounian seeks respect and fair remuneration for the bastions of the appraisal system
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Liverpool Hope strike: ‘standstill’ or ‘business as usual’?
Striking lecturers are pledging to bring Liverpool Hope University to a “standstill” today, although managers claim two-thirds will turn up to work as usual.
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Pension fund threatens UCU boycotters with legal action
Lecturers from the University and College Union who help to run the sector’s £30 billion pension fund are being threatened with High Court action – by the fund itself.