Union members ask for large wage increase
Further education college lecturers will formally submit this year's pay claim to employers today. Members of the Natfhe and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers are asking for "a substantial...
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Profits row set for court
The Association of University Teachers is considering legal action against Nottingham University because, it claims, the profit-related pay scheme fails to offer a fair deal to fixed-term employees....
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AUT 'names and shames' on equality
LEAGUE tables of institutions with a low number of women in senior posts have been published for the first time, writes Harriet Swain. The tables, drawn up by the Association of University Teachers,...
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Low pay, low gain
EACH WEEK Gwen Brymer takes home Pounds 112, from which she needs to pay for council tax, rent, food, clothes, water, gas and electricity. She has worked at the University of Surrey for 20 years and...
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Cannadine aims to raise cash
London's Institute of Historical Research is set to embark on a fundraising drive under its new director, writes Huw Richards. David Cannadine, who succeeded Patrick O'Brien at the start of the month...
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Police in dispute on APU claim
Hate-mail against staff who have supported complaints of nepotism and bullying at Anglia Polytechnic University is not being investigated internally, despite an initial assurance that it would be. A...
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Iceman cometh
The twists and turns of industrial relations are evidently exciting enough to persuade Bleiman's employer, David Triesman, AUT general secretary, that something equally exhilarating is needed to fill...
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Celtic boycott
Despite the difficulties besetting further education, not one critical motion was passed at the annual conference of the Educational Institute of Scotland College Lecturers' Association on Saturday....
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Wage admittance
A psychologist at Leeds University wonders whether any significance should be attached to the fact that the university's pay slips now advertise loans. Perhaps, he muses in the University Reporter,...
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Hancock's half minute
Is London Guildhall University never going to be able to forget the financial troubles that nearly capsized it? Take this week's gathering in Victoria Tower Gardens, next to the Houses of Parliament...
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Expenses joke
David Bleiman, the Edinburgh-based assistant general secretary of the Association of University Teachers, has had an arduous time filling in complex new expenses claim forms, which have separate...
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Science blab
Any lingering hopes scientists may have had that the Office of Science and Technology would make a hasty move from the Department of Trade and Industry to a more central role under Labour were...
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Dome thirst
Almost as an afterthought, it seems, the New Millennium Experience has announced that British beer is to have a place at both the Dome and the "Baby Dome" located next to the real thing. In keeping...
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Out on Africa
"Nobody has really noticed his existence." While politicians operate on the oxygen of publicity our Alumnus to be proud of No 173, foreign office Africa minister Tony Lloyd, could be forgiven for...
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FO fear sparks Sino inquiry
Foreign Office pressure has led to the setting-up of a funding council inquiry into the state of Chinese studies in United Kingdom universities. The review, headed by Bahram Bekhradnia, head of...