Competitiveness Council, 24 July 2006
Brussels, 20 July 2006 The Competitiveness Council will meet in extraordinary session on 24 July 2006 in Brussels, under the Chairmanship of Mauri Pekkarinen, Finnish minister for Trade and Industry...
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Today's news
Pupils underestimate level of graduate debt, survey finds The average sixthformer expects to leave university with debts of just over £6,000 - less than half the average amount graduates actually owe...
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Laurie Taylor column
Two fifths of academics fail to take proper leave and many struggle to fit any summer holidays between exam boards and clearing. New research suggests that this deprivation can have serious...
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Leader: Work together or keep on failing
Both employers and union officials will be relieved that this week's ballot result shows a convincing majority in favour of ending the higher education pay dispute. The 55 per cent turnout represents...
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Leader: Sinking expectations
For the drop-out rates published among this week's performance indicators to be rising would not be surprising if the measures of widening participation were moving in the same direction. The...
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Equality role not gender-specific 1
Although we wish to progress issues of equality within the University and College Union and to bring the expertise and enthusiasm of all members to its work, we cannot allow the allegations of...
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Equality role not gender-specific 2
I was shocked by the comments about the University and College Union's decision to give Paul Mackney responsibility for equalities. I have worked closely with Mackney for several years. His track...
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Equality role not gender-specific 3
I have no idea whether Sally Hunt or anybody else is the most suitable person to deal with equality matters at the University and College Union but I was depressed by the sexist undertone of the...
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Farewell to Frank Ellis
The devil looks after his own and in the case of Frank Ellis it's a truism. He decided to take early retirement and Leeds University has given him with a sweetener of one year's salary as well as...
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Justifiable concern
I'm sorry to intrude on your navel-gazing but I resent a paragraph in your touching article "Staff exposed to parent rage" (July 7) that is intended to be read as the straw that broke the back of the...
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Quality engagement
You would never have known from the article about the Quality Assurance Agency's report on the outcomes of the institutional audit of 24 specialist institutions that the majority were found to be...
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Terrorism isn't protest
Matthew Humphrey and Marc Stears find the fact that medical researchers are protected by legislation "problematic" ("Disruptive politics must be allowed to muscle in", Opinion, July 7). They suggest...
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No to pension change
University and College Union members in post-1992 institutions are being balloted on proposed changes to their pensions. These changes will have a detrimental effect on future academics and set up a...
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Assess the stress
Health and safety isn't just about physical health ("Sector's safety record slated", July 14). The Health and Safety Executive classes work-related stress as an occupational hazard and has approached...
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Give up citing Galileo
Once again we see the tired citing of Galileo as the exemplification of an anti-education Church of Rome ("Must science always end up on the altar?", Features, July 14). That would be the Galileo who...