V-cs ask for five-year tax clause
Vice chancellors, who signed up to the tax-driven Qualifying Indexed Securities scheme, this week demanded a five-year exemption to tax changes announced in the November budget. They calculate that...
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First sight for Foresight
The Office of Science and Technology this week declared the first batch of reports from the Government's Pounds 1.6 million Foresight exercise on research needs and market opportunities for the...
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Foresight study puts biology in top place
Biology will be the dominant science of the 21st century and Britain should commit itself to a big drive in research and exploitation of areas such as ageing and disabling degenerative diseases, the...
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Headhunters out
Portsmouth University is establishing a search committee, with members from its five faculties to encourage staff to recommend candidates for the vacant vice chancellorship. The university governors...
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Lack of trust at Guildhall
An inquiry into London Guildhall University has warned that addressing the reasons for low morale is more important than debating whether the complaints underlying it are justified. The inquiry was...
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Boosting morale
(Photograph) - Boosting morale: Members of Natfhe college branches around London joined demonstrating lecturers from Southwark College in support of their all-out strike which began on March 14. The...
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Manchester opts against sackings
Manchester University has ruled out redundancies as a means of dealing with its poor 1995/96 grant settlement. Martin Harris, vice chancellor of the university, said: "There is absolutely no plan for...
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Irish university in offing
A religious group at the University of Coventry is coordinating plans for a new Catholic university for the West of Ireland. The Faith Alive organisation is believed to have secured the backing of...
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Git grads
Private Eye's reprint of a BBC memo explaining the proportion of the population finding certain swear words offensive should be creating a stir in the more market-research conscious parts of Oxford...
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A mite clean
At this delicate stage of the annual pay round, the Association for University Teachers is taking no chances on its office being bugged. Such is the diligence with which staff protection measures are...
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Bright girl
One of the first recruits to the University of Warwick's prestigious research fellowships is Sadie Plant, now at the University of Birmingham, who has been described in another newspaper as the...
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Lounge lizards
Good news for Saville Row. The highly tasteful invitation to the National History Museum membership scheme launch, sponsored by Glaxo, includes the invaluable information that it "Admits Two Lounge...
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Good God!
Reassurance for those with doubts about the Foreign Office's sources of advice from the latest issue of PSA News: "Basil Eastwood (Head of Research and Analysis Department, FCO), spoke to GOD at...
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Freebie deal
(Photograph) - Freebie deal: Students at the University of Plymouth's new Pounds 14 million Robbins hall of residence have ended a nine-week rent strike in return for a Pounds ,000 rent cut and...