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Human cost of the pay dispute The lecturer, the vice-chancellor and the student tell their stories Plus David Cesarani ponders anti-Semitism and double standards in academe
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Concordat cuts red tape
A Higher Education Concordat designed to cut red tape has been signed by 16 agencies, including the Department for Education and Skills, Research Councils UK, the Quality Assurance Agency and the...
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Loan repayment plan
The Government has unveiled plans to ensure the repayment of loans by students from all European Union countries who complete degree courses in the UK. Students will be committed to repay loans on...
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Loss for languages
Anglia Ruskin University will close its languages department in 2008-09. The decision, announced this month, could lead to up to 20 redundancies. BAs in French, German and Spanish will close and...
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Access delivers
Access courses are an important route to higher education, particularly for mature students, says a Higher Education Funding Council for England report. More than half of students who take access...
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Study may save science
The Royal Society is launching a study into the UK's science skills to put the debate over the closure of science departments into the broader context of the economy. Judith Howard, professor of...
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Teaching courses prove a struggle
HEA study finds that workloads are too heavy for junior staff. Jessica Shepherd reports Many junior academics struggle to complete the extensive workloads demanded by courses that aim to improve...
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Lights, camera and a colony of bats
Most universities are familiar with the nightmare of planning negotiations. But few have attempted to turn an ancient castle, complete with bat colony, into a cutting-edge laboratory. Against all the...
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QAA links to sector betray students
Higher education watchdog the Quality Assurance Agency risks being too deep in universities' and the Government's pockets to expose failings in the sector, according to a damning report, writes...
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Dispute dispatches
* Managers at Northumbria University insisted this week that they had not abandoned plans to dock 100 per cent pay from all staff taking part in the boycott of exams and assessments. After an...
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UEA v-c threatens staff with legal bills
Students increasingly oppose the boycott, Ucea is forced to eat humble pie and examiners are up in arms. The Times Higher reports on the pay dispute. A vice-chancellor is threatening to pursue...
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Up to 100% of pay withheld
V-cs believe wage docking could force an end to the dispute, reports Anthea Lipsett. Two out of five vice-chancellors are docking pay in a bid to force academics to abandon industrial action, a...
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Finger points at managers
40 per cent of students say those in charge are responsible for the pay dispute. Jessica Shepherd reports. Two fifths of students blame university managers for the lecturers' pay dispute while an...
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Examiners prepared to resign
Almost a quarter of external examiners at Worcester University are threatening to resign over the university's plans to counteract the exams and marking boycott, writes Phil Baty. Worcester wrote to...
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UCEA is sent to the headmaster for a severe ticking off
The news that the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association had been called before the House of Commons' Education Select Committee to face a dressing down over "misleading" statements it had...