Birkbeck ballots on job title change
Hourly paid part-time lecturers at Birkbeck College's centre for extramural studies are to be balloted for industrial action following changes in their job description and non-recognition of their...
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Marionettiste, writer and director Rani Singh
(Photograph) - Pleased as Punch: marionettiste, writer and director Rani Singh pulled some strings at a puppetry symposium organised with Thames Valley University earlier this month. The aim of the...
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ACM accepts 2.7%
The Association for College Management has accepted a 2.7 per cent rise for members along with extra holiday and the setting up of working parties with the Colleges Employers Forum on performance-...
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Tameside revived
A Pounds 5.5 million spending plan will change the face of education at Tameside College of Technology, which is embarking on a rolling programme of regeneration including a Pounds 1.5 million...
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Research panel chairs announced
Chairs of the research assessment exercise panels will be as follows: Clinical laboratory sciences: Prof I. V. Allen (Queen's Belfast) Community-based clinical subjects: Prof M. Marmot (University...
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Internet News
The THES Internet Service includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper and all our advertisements, updated at 3pm on the Tuesday before publication of the paper. The service is...
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IP rules blueprint
A new Charity Commission consultation paper on charities and research supports written agreements between charities, researchers and their institutions on their responsibilities for supervision and...
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Manchester masters of salary universe
The average salary earned by last year's graduates of the MBA programme at Manchester Business School was 18 per cent up on the previous year, way ahead even of the much-criticised pay rises for...
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Not cricket
At last we know who is really to blame for the state of the British economy - Dominic Cork. English cricket's hat-trick hero against the West Indies is exposed by incisive revisionist analysis in the...
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Grant dodging
A Glasgow University research council grants committee member has issued his colleagues with a handy guide on grant applications. In order to avoid the extra work and higher research profile which a...
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Cannon has ball
Is there no limit to the versatility of Manchester Business School director Tom Cannon? Since joining MBS's long list of ex-directors he has impinged on the national consciousness in a number of...
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Leeson gamble
As sweltering graduation ceremonies come to their sweaty end across sun-baked Britain, Antithesis hopes to highlight those heart-warming Alumni To Be Proud Of in forthcoming weeks. Case in point...
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Alexei Sayle judges the Thames Valley University and Trotman and Company Ltd national video competition
(Photograph) - Celebrity stare: Alexei Sayle, one of the judges in the Thames Valley University and Trotman and Company Ltd national video competition for schools, colleges and universities earlier...
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Twin victory against racism
When Bernard Shapiro publicly assumed his role as principal of McGill, Canada's most prestigious university, it was hailed as a remarkable personal feat. Joining the celebratory throng was Shapiro's...
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Bully boy's bunkum
I had hoped that Bill Clinton's election to the United States presidency in 1992 would bring an end to the seemingly interminable culture wars ("the crisis of history", "the battle of the books and...