Plan to scrap national pay deals
University unions have reacted angrily to proposals to scrap annual pay increments and establish a single pay structure for all staff, from porters to professors. The suggestions form part of...
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Carnage blamed on old buildings
European earthquake experts sent to Kobe, Japan, to carry out a detailed study of how, why and which buildings failed during January's earthquake say research on strengthening old buildings should be...
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Welsh adopt credit funding
Higher education funding in Wales is to be linked to a new credit framework for courses. The Higher Education Credit Initiative, launched by the Welsh HE CATS Forum, involves all Welsh universities...
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Made to measure
Given that second-hand buildings generally adapt best to purposes close to those for which they were originally intended, one can only applaud the initiative of the University of Cork, currently...
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Career tonic
Lord Butterfield, distinguished medic, member of the House of Lords science and technology committee and former vice chancellor of Nottingham and Cambridge universities, suggested a simple solution...
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Costing the earth
While higher education's in-ternationalist instincts meant there was a certain regret at Norway's decision last year to reject European Union membership, this may not have been shared at Newcastle...
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Thanks a bunch
Never let it be said that Sir William Stubbs, chief executive of the Further Education Funding Council, lacks compassion. An exasperated member of North Warwickshire College complained that fears...
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Hard fax
Colleges Employers Forum chief Roger Ward likes to be known as a grand talker. When the man who spent the eve of his wedding in constant negotiation with Natfhe officials decided to treat his patient...
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Digital diet
Scottish universities and colleges are being connected by a series of information superhighway links, or Metropolitan Area Networks, known rather ungrammatically as MANs. One of these is in Fife and...
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Late leaver
Never famed for its ability to react rapidly, the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Prinicpals appears to be getting slower as it expands. With staff member Sean Fielding off to a new job at Exeter...
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Rouge faces
Until a couple of years ago, the grandly titled Pol Roger Oxford v Cambridge Blind Wine Tasting Match used to take place at the Oxford and Cambridge Club. But no longer: according to a Pol Roger...
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Copy cuts
Agitation about plagiarism is getting through to students. As Shaun Breslin, acting director of Newcastle University's East Asia centre, finished a distinctly lively paper on the future of China at...
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Top quark find solves matter puzzle
Scientists in the United States believe they have virtually completed the jigsaw that describes the structure of matter with the discovery of a subatomic particle that has not existed since the...
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Oxford bags under the eyes
Oxford University students need lessons in how to revise and sit for finals, as well as more time off between exams to recover from the experience, say student union leaders. The gruelling high-...
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Countdown to 1997
(Photograph) - Countdown to 1997: Henry Tang Ying-Yen, member of the Hong Kong legislative council and adviser to the Chinese government, emphasises a point during his address to the THES-Newcastle...