Pay review or a strike?
THE UNIVERSITIES and Colleges Employers' Forum has become irrelevant to academic salary determination. Steve Rouse, chief executive, says that the UCEA board "does not have a position on a pay review...
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Everest: no summit
THE COUNCIL for College and University English has not "condemned" the research assessment exercise's English panel's approach to grading, nor has it "backed" Professor Everest's open letter to...
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A sample mistake
MARGARET O'BRIEN (THES, February 14) says that "it might have been wiser" to present her findings about the sociology of Barking and Dagenham to an academic audience before contacting the Panorama...
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Graduate bulge strains law
THE LAW SOCIETY has echoed Government concerns over an oversupply of graduates. The society says it is worried that undergraduate courses have "expanded enormously in recent years without sufficient...
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Sea U, see me ready to launch
Seafarers in the remotest locations could soon be using the Internet to keep in touch with friends, family and a wealth of educational opportunities. Technology developed at the University of Wales...
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Degrees for sale on the Internet
An Internet service is selling fake degree certificates for Pounds 70 each. From his website Peter Quinn offers those "who have never had a chance at a university or college education" a choice of A-...
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HEFCE switches PFI project focus
THE HIGHER Education Funding Council for England is considering the launch of a second round of trial projects under the Private Finance Initiative. It is likely to focus on private provision of...
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Assessment reassessed
As Pounds 3,405 million of research funding is distributed according to the 1996 RAE ratings, THES readers examine the flawed basis of its judgements In the year since I wrote in The THES about the...
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Land sale leads to thuggery
AN ANGRY mob of 200 staff at the Quaid-i-Azam University in the Pakistan capital of Islamabad marched on the physics department last month to hurl obscenities and death threats at two professors who...
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CVCP: collaborate or be squeezed
THE Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals is calling for an expansion in university research collaboration projects in order to offset the funding squeeze. In a similar move, Scotland's degree...
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29 September 2000
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Total recurrent funding grant
This is the first year the council has made no separate calculation for capital funding. This is therefore included in the total Pounds 3,405 million recurrent grant. The total is a 2.8 per cent...
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7 December 2007
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Game on
(Photograph) - Game on: Chris Morris, a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, displays his interactive exhibition for teenagers that tackles sex, drugs, health, gambling, smoking, drinking and...
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Conscious union
PHILOSOPHERS and psychologists are putting their heads together in a cross-university project examining consciousness. The project, run by Warwick University in collaboration with researchers at...