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That's it, I'm going back to school
Many female academics are deserting universities and retraining as school teachers. Is it the better pay, the promotion prospects or the child-friendly holidays? Helen Hague reports on why it might...
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Imagine you had a Pounds 1.4bn windfall
Actuary Zaki Khorasanee sets out why academics should demand that their pension fund's surplus be used to improve their 'mediocre' rights. I joined the Universities Superannuation Scheme in September...
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'I could say it 1,000 ways and they'd probably all offend'
Never get into a slanging match with a lexicographer, because he'll always have the last word. Nick Groom reports. How do you write a dictionary? Well, Jonathon Green should know. He is an autodidact...
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Don't just talk the talk
Universities are closing language departments nationwide, but some professors are fighting back with exotic courses designed to appeal to reluctant students. Anne Sebba reports. To speak a language...
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Innovative language teaching
California-born Elizabeth Ezra accepted a lecturer's job at Stirling University in Scotland five years ago after taking her PhD at Cornell and teaching in New York. She was attracted to Stirling...
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AoC fears Ofsted will bring 'name and shame' culture to FE
Further education colleges fear they may be entering a "name and shame" culture under the proposed post-16 inspection regime. Delegates at an Association of Colleges consultation conference on the...
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Help is urged for vital sector
The voluntary sector is under threat and needs more help from universities to ensure its long-term survival, the UK's first professor of voluntary sector organisation has warned. Higher education...
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Cubie petition arrives via net
Scottish students are taking democracy into the digital age though a web-based petition to the Scottish Parliament demanding the full implementation of the Cubie report, Olga Wojtas reports. One of...
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Scottish Executive's praised for further education Pounds 6 million childcare costs
The Association of Scottish Colleges has praised the Scottish Executive's "vitally important" proposals of Pounds 6 million towards part-time further education students' childcare costs. Tom Kelly,...
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Loss of bargaining means higher fees, union warns
The battle over the future of national bargaining could dictate whether top-up fees will be introduced, lecturers' union Natfhe warned this week. Natfhe has launched a campaign, threatening national...
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Scots student numbers to rise
Student numbers are expected to rise dramatically in Scotland following the abolition of up-front tuition fees and restoration of bursaries, economic analysts have predicted. The London and Edinburgh...
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Surge of interest in teacher training
New teacher training salaries have pushed teaching career inquiries up from about 2,000 a week to a peak of nearly 11,000, but applications are still below last year's. The latest Teacher Training...
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Minister to get tough on sleaze
Lifelong learning minister Malcolm Wicks threatened tough financial sanctions against mismanaged colleges, as lecturers' union Natfhe warned that universities and colleges continued to be "riddled"...
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Mass campaign threat over PRP
Further education colleges look set to introduce performance-related pay, raising fears that universities may follow suit, it emerged at lecturers' union Natfhe's annual conference. Lifelong learning...