'Universities are not businesses'
Although vice-chancellors' pay packets rival those of top private-sector CEOs, they shoulder few of the same competitive burdens, Iain Pears notes, while doing great harm to UK academia
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1 April 2010
Pay points - Vice-chancellors and academics both got more, but did some get more than they deserved?
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University is catching on, statistics show
Young people’s participation rate rises to 45% in 2008-09. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Link postgraduate expertise to enterprise, review says
Report recommends tailoring provision to secure high-value business for the UK. John Gill writes
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UEA mishandled ‘Climategate’ Freedom of Information requests, say MPs
Science and Technology Committee report finds no dishonest behaviour by Climatic Research Unit or its head, but urges greater transparency. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Unions rebuff Ucea’s one-off 0.25 per cent offer
Employers’ ‘modest, non-consolidated’ pay proposal falls short of joint staff demands for 4 per cent hike and job security assurances. John Gill reports
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Standing room only at 60th anniversary conference
Since its inception in 1950, the Political Studies Association has seen a surge in interest in the discipline, says treasurer John Benyon
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Souls to Newcastle?
HR ‘success factors’ accused of imposing conformity of body and spirit that runs contrary to academy’s values. Melanie Newman reports
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The high watermark of the Anglo-American academy
US and UK reign over the ‘global research university’ will be overthrown by the East’s rise and mainland Europe’s resurgence, expert predicts. John Morgan reports
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Gloucestershire vice-chancellor steps down
Broadfoot says institution is ‘on the road to recovery’ as she announces early retirement. Melanie Newman reports
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Overseas students ‘are not cash cows’
Universities warned that they must show international students that they are wanted for more than their fee income. John Morgan reports
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Government announces medical research review in bid to cut red tape
Independent look at regulation is needed to bring greater coordination and ‘freedom from unnecessary bureaucracy’, Zoë Corbyn reports
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Budget windfall for STEM places and spin-offs
Chancellor promises £305 million for ‘key subjects’ and commercial initiatives. Melanie Newman reports
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The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-being
Basing politics on what makes people happy is a good thing, isn't it? Maybe, says Paul Stenner
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Michelangelo's Finger: An Exploration of Everyday Transcendence
Raymond Tallis, gerontologist and philosopher, has something in common with Coleridge's Ancient Mariner. He grabs readers as they pass and regales them with extraordinary accounts of impressive...