When a refugee is stranded in funding limbo
Changes to overseas student fees and awards rules will exclude asylum seekers, warns Michael Brophy. Given the number of stories and reports in the media about the plight of Rwandan, Bosnian and...
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Partners for better not worse
Phil Walkling wants improved quality control of HE in FE colleges. The English higher education funding and quality councils have each recently produced reports on the relationship between higher...
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Frogs spawn a research success
In the first of an occasional series John Habgood, Archbishop of York, tells Martyn Kelly about his first academic publication in 1950 in the Journal of Physiology. One of the tasks of moral...
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Darned mystery
Fifty years after the Red Army fought its way into Hitler's bunker the manner of the Fuhrer's death and the identification of his body remain in dispute. John Erickson recounts the tales of those...
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Loans bite
The British Dental Association has joined the campaign urging the Government to increase student loans to medical, dental and veterinary students. Katy Clarke, association student liaison officer,...
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Natfhe strikes ahead
Lecturers' union Natfhe has pledged more industrial action as it seeks local agreements at further education colleges after the breakdown of national contracts talks. The union refused a last-minute...
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Pensions claimed
The AUT this week urged part-time lecturers in the old universities to lodge claims for retrospective pensions rights by May 3l. This follows a Government amendment to the l993 Pensions Act which now...
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AUT accepts 2.7 per cent
University lecturers have accepted a 2.7 per cent pay rise and claimed victory in their campaign against sweeping changes to their salary structure. David Triesman, general secretary of the...
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Kickstart for small business
Small firms are to be the main beneficiaries of a host of measures to boost the competitiveness of British industry. They will get the lion's share of Pounds 200 million, of which Pounds 125 million...
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Bubble trouble
No smiles at Glasgow University, whose staff newsletter offered champagne for replying to a questionnaire. But instead of replies, it was objections that fizzed in to the next newsletter: "I find it...
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Union chief predicts recruitment crisis . . .
Old universities are likely to face a major recruitment crisis in the next four years because of a retirement bulge and poor academic pay, Peter Breeze, president of the Association of University...
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Wellcome guards its property
The Wellcome Trust plans to set up a technology transfer company to exploit intellectual property rights associated with research work it backs in universities. The idea was floated by the Wellcome...
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Glaxo gift will reopen property debate
A new laboratory at Bradford University funded by pharmaceutical giant Glaxo has reopened the debate over ownership of intellectual property rights in joint ventures between academics and industry....
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The THES Internet Service, carries details of the contents of this week's newspaper including all job advertisements, quality assessments for teaching and research and other information. It is...