CIHE okays fees, CBI says no
Staff still unhappy about pay, students alarmed at the prospect of fees and vice chancellors squeezed in the middle. Funding pressure built up as v-cs gathered in London this week to discuss the...
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You must wait for Dearing, NUS tells v-cs
Staff still unhappy about pay, students alarmed at the prospect of fees and vice chancellors squeezed in the middle. Funding pressure built up as v-cs gathered in London this week to discuss the...
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Fees split Russell 17
Staff still unhappy about pay, students alarmed at the prospect of fees and vice chancellors squeezed in the middle. Funding pressure built up as v-cs gathered in London this week to discuss the...
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Pay in the sky
A wrangle between the Treasury and the Department of Trade and Industry over who should meet the cost of privatising the Royal Observatories has delayed the initiative. The Particle Physics and...
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Shell not out
The Royal Geographical Society has voted overwhelmingly to retain Shell International as a corporate sponsor, following an academic-driven move to sever links with the company. There were fears about...
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Greenwich may strike
Lecturers' union Natfhe is to ballot members on industrial action at the University of Greenwich over management proposals to axe 20 jobs. Natfhe branch spokesman Les Garner said that a ballot could...
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Dundee downer
Dundee University's senate was this week set to consider a proposal to axe undergraduate teaching in education. Students have already protested at plans to withdraw the department of educational...
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Foresight cash
More than Pounds 50 million of advanced equipment is to be provided for universities and colleges through a partnership between funding councils, research councils and Government departments. The...
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Target horrifies teacher trainers
Staff still unhappy about pay, students alarmed at the prospect of fees and vice chancellors squeezed in the middle. Funding pressure built up at v-cs gathered in London this week to discuss the...
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Union threats unlikely to work
Staff still unhappy about pay, students alarmed at the prospect of fees and vice chancellors squeezed in the middle. Funding pressure built up at v-cs gathered in London this week to discuss the...
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Evans above!
Wales may no longer export coal and steel, but the new Political Studies Association's Directory of Staff suggests that the trade in academic political scientists is still going pretty well. It is...
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A call to Arms
Whether or not ethnicity predisposes you to certain types of career, names might. Jane Arms certainly has a surname that seems to fit her. She returns to Australia this month, after four years at LSE...
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What a coo
A real coup for The University of Central England in last month's Shakespeare lecture. To offer a biting analysis of the failings of British management, they secured as speaker Sir Alistair Morton,...
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Plato's outed
Glasgow University students clearly have little time for the Platonic ideal. A poster put up by the Campaign for the Highest Education, promoting Plato's view that "The life without examination is a...
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Cash sweeteners
The most innocent gesture is in danger of being misconstrued these days amid concern over standards in public life. At the Scotcat lunch, Jim MacCallum, vice principal of St Andrews University,...