Make access stick, Warwick says
Higher education is still vulnerable to claims of self-perpetuating privilege and elitism, Baroness Warwick, chief executive of Universities UK, has warned. Lady Warwick, giving Strathclyde...
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Fight for pay rise suffers reversal
Lecturers taking part in the national dispute over pay had a double dose of bad news this week as some were told that they would not be paid until "normal working" was resumed and as hitherto solid...
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Durham in the dock over race
Durham University is accused of race discrimination in court actions brought by two Nigerian students. The cases follow the bishop of Durham's finding last May that the university has been...
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Schools seek research sabbaticals for staff
School teachers could take sabbaticals to do research in collaboration with universities under proposals from the General Teaching Council. The GTC met school standards minister Estelle Morris last...
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Teacher recruits up by 10 per cent
Numbers of people applying for PGCE places are up nearly 10 per cent compared with this time last year, according to the Graduate Teacher Training Registry. The biggest rise is in numbers applying...
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Staff feel stress of insecure contracts
Almost two-thirds of contract researchers and teachers in geography fear insecurity at work is affecting their health and well-being, a pilot survey has found. Caitriona Ni Laoire of Queen's...
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Graduate job recovery slows
The number and range of graduate employment opportunities is growing again, but not as quickly as employers had predicted, a national survey has found. Employers responding to a salaries and...
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Wales adds up price of freedom
Despite devolution, Welsh education is still under-funded, Tony Tysome finds. When the Welsh National Assembly began to operate in July 1999, further and higher education chiefs in Wales could have...
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Farren pressed to scrap loans
Northern Ireland's higher and further education minister, Sean Farren, has come under pressure to honour a commitment to abolish student loans and introduce a proper grants system. With the province'...
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Scott restoration work reaches halfway mark
An international research team is celebrating passing the halfway point in publishing a revolutionary edition of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels. The multimillion-pound project, published by...
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Bar may compel student support
The Bar Council could introduce a compulsory system of funding for student barristers. At its next meeting in February, the council will consider proposals for funding students on the Bar vocational...
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More pay lures lecturers away
Further education colleges are suffering from severe skills shortages because qualified lecturers are being lured into better paid jobs in industry and schools, a national survey has found. The...
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University mergers loom
Students will have fewer universities to choose from in future as growing pressures force institutional collaboration and merger, a senior vice-chancellor predicted this week. Sir David Watson, vice-...
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MPs warned of risk to quality from student funding squeeze
University standards are being hit by a lack of cash, higher education quality chief John Randall admitted this week, writes Alan Thomson. But Mr Randall, chief executive of the Quality Assurance...
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Correction
In The THES , January 12, we said the Quality Assurance Agency had criticised Exeter University for failing to appoint an external examiner to its BA in business studies and marketing delivered by...