Moral anchors spin on centralising axis
A colleague from one of the former polytechnics is retiring this year. He is a professor and head of department in the humanities; as well as an excellent teacher and a sound administrator. He is too...
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Observatory chiefs eye cuts
DIRECTORS of the Royal Observatories in Edinburgh and Cambridge are being asked how to restructure the observatories, which are believed to be facing staff cuts of up to 50 per cent. The exercise is...
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Italy guilty of discrimination
ITALY discriminated against 1,500 foreign language lecturers excluded from competing for supply-teaching jobs at Italian universities over the past 16 years, the European Court of Justice has ruled....
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Jobs framework under fire
GOVERNMENT plans to subject higher education staff to a common framework of occupational standards based on national vocational qualifications have caused controversy even before their publication....
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Odds on
While his unlucky seat-hunting exploits have had a fair amount of attention, Labour's further and higher education spokesman Bryan Davies still has a better chance of becoming minister for further...
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Cash drought in climate research causes alarm
MPs on the Committee for Science and Technology are concerned at the inadequate funding of climatic change research. In its last report before the general election, the committee is expected to...
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Upton takes helm at Oxford Brookes
Graham Upton, pro vice chancellor at Birmingham University, has been appointed as the new vice chancellor of Oxford Brookes University. He will take up the post in September. Clive Booth, who has...
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Government urged to be mother of invention
Britain has become more innovative in the 1990s but still fails to match the performance of the United States, according to the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee. The Lords' report...
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Sen awarded Edinburgh Medal
Amartya Sen, professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University, was this week awarded the Edinburgh Medal at the Edinburgh International Science Festival. The medal is awarded annually to...
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Car dealers offered educational accessories
LOUGHBOROUGH University is the driving force behind a new degree designed exclusively for car dealers. The BSc in retail automotive management, developed in conjunction with Ford, is the world's...
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Customer pays price for rising costs
Reports by Phil Baty from the Royal Economic Society's annual conference at Staffordshire University this week. See research papers. Companies tend to raise prices when their costs go up, not when...
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New-style degrees get convert
The first signs of a consensus over abolishing traditional degree classifications may have been seen at last week's quality conference staged by Goldsmiths College. Calls for a review and possible...
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Phoenix focuses space hopes
Space scientists are expected to learn next week whether their dreams of relaunching the ill-fated Cluster mission, which came to an abrupt end last June, will come true. Nine months after the rocket...
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Bring FE into the fold, urges NUS
Students have pledged their support for Sir Ron Dearing's inquiry into the future of higher education, but want more of a voice for further education. More than 1,500 delegates at the annual...
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Tory MPs angry at Welsh funding plan
A House of Commons committee with a Conservative majority has criticised the funding of further education in Wales. The Welsh Affairs committee, in a report issued this week, said the Government...