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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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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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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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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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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Colleges fight to avert strike
Scotland's former centrally funded colleges are lobbying their staff in a bid to avert industrial action in the coming term. Academic staff unions at the 13 institutions, which include Glasgow...
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A malady, ma'am!
MANAGERS at Manchester Metropolitan University this week dismissed as "mischievous" union claims that an Pounds 11 million humanities building, opened by the Queen yesterday, is unsafe and unhealthy...
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Universities should buy loans
THE Dearing committee will be asked to consider radical proposals to sell off the Student Loans Company to the UK's universities, it was revealed this week. Two academics from the London School of...
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Four in five want to get out
EIGHTY per cent of staff in new universities and further education colleges would seriously consider early retirement if offered, according to a new survey. The survey, to be published next week by...
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Cuts force university to extend Xmas holiday
STUDENT anger at the deterioration of Bulgarian universities is spilling on to the streets with both local protests and a one-day strike. Students are frustrated with government's seeming inability...
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Troubled Soton institute gets second council visit
Funding council officials are to re-visit Southampton Institute just a month after a council audit described irregularities at the institute as "minor". The Higher Education Funding Council for...
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Looking up: Alec Shepley
(Photograph) - Looking up: Alec Shepley, a PhD art student at Manchester Metropolitan University, displays his work "Watch the Birdie", which is images of birds projected on to scaffolding and...
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Leeds courses axed
LEEDS Metropolitan University is planning to restructure 20 courses, axing three. Intake to all chemistry courses could stop from next year. BA hons courses in consumer services management and in...
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Cross word
Coincidence or covert support? Clue 19 down in The Times crossword on Tuesday November 19, the AUT Day of Action, was "University professors, discontented, press for a rise" (7 letters). Answer :...
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Jobs docked
Thirteen teaching and seven support staff jobs could go at Greenwich University amid union claims that plans to rationalise the university's property portfolio, including moving departments into the...