THE Leadership and Management Awards 2011: Shortlist
Shortlist picks out the people who help keep universities running even in the toughest of times
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TV reviews: Dispatches & Campus
Gary Day finds absurdity in two programmes on universities - and only one is on a fictional campus
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Campus round-up
University of SheffieldMexican wave reaches YorkshireA university has signed an agreement with Mexico's national science body to promote joint industrial research. The University of Sheffield's...
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Odds and quads
This model ship, made of matchsticks by members of the "Upington 26", is on display in the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town.
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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14 April 2011
Into the limelight - Administrators believe reforms herald a bigger role
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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.