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Big guns roll out to fight top-up fees
The National Union of Students this week claimed to have the backing of vice-chancellors and 100 Labour MPs as well as academic unions as it prepared to launch a national campaign opposing top-up...
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Province gets Pounds 40m
Northern Ireland's two universities are set to get a Pounds 40 million boost for research over the next four years. Ulster University and Queen's University, Belfast, have long complained about...
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Birmingham v-c rounds on Blair
Prime Minister Tony Blair has been accused of running a "dishonest government" in an open letter from Birmingham vice-chancellor Maxwell Irvine, writes Tony Tysome. The letter condemns higher...
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Rich rewards for good teaching and learning
Twenty academics from England and Wales are Pounds 50,000 better off this week, following the announcement of the winners of the first National Teaching Fellowships Scheme. Funded by the Higher...
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Researcher murdered 'for being kind'
(Photograph) - A depressed psychology lecturer at Westminster University murdered a young colleague because "she had been kind to him", Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court heard this week. Loner Steven...
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Union furious at settling of claim
Cricklade College has settled a claim for unfair dismissal by its former principal, Richard Evans, who was sacked for mismanagement and for "bringing the college into disrepute". An internal inquiry...
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'Wage scandal' of campus workers
The Transport and General Workers union has accused universities of paying "poverty wages" to the "forgotten army" of cleaners, porters, catering, security, gardening and clerical staff. General...
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Call for meeting over Highlands 'cover-up'
There are growing calls for an emergency meeting of the University of the Highlands and Islands foundation in the wake of allegations of mismanagement by UHI chief executive Brian Duffield. Eric...
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Sale of defence agency will cost HE millions
University research income worth Pounds 25 million a year could be lost if government sells off parts of the United Kingdom's defence research sector. Part-privatisation of the Defence Evaluation...
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New science centres bring total to 12
Four more science enterprise centres were announced by Stephen Byers, secretary of state for trade and industry, this week, making a total of 12. They will be given a total of Pounds 4.5 million. The...
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Questionnaire to give Europe's youth a voice
The British Youth Council is surveying the attitudes of more than 250,000 people aged between 15 and 25 as part of a pan-European initiative to devise a European youth policy. Peter Facey, BYC chief...
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Fees main barrier to access
A new analysis of application figures suggests that the main barrier to wider access is the government's policy on tuition fees, the Liberal Democrats claimed this week. The House of Commons research...
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RAE squeeze poses threat to Russell Group
Russell Group universities stand to lose out following next year's research assessment exercise, further raising concerns that the institutions will charge top-up fees. RAE results are expected to...
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Researchers predicted violence
The hooliganism that has marred the Euro 2000 football championship was inevitable and is too deep-rooted a problem to be resolved by traditional measures, football researchers have warned. Experts...