Name change approval
St Mary's College, Twickenham, has received permission from the Privy Council to be called St Mary's University College, Twickenham. Students starting in autumn at the college, which has a Roman...
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Campaign for Esol
The University and College Union is to launch a campaign to defend English for Speakers of Other Languages (Esol) courses at a conference in London on Monday. The campaign will press the Government...
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Riding the airwaves
Students at Canterbury Christ Church and Kent universities have won the first licence for a campus FM radio station. Canterbury Student Radio will launch on January 15. The station is aimed at 14 to...
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Time for some bubbly
As academic career moves go, Stephen Charters' appointment is a sparkling achievement, having just been appointed Champagne professor at Reims Management School. Dr Charters, an Oxford law graduate,...
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'Political' issues, not old affiliations, will decide result
Candidates for posts in the super-union say former allegiances will count for less than more recent debates, Tony Tysome writes. Members voting in the forthcoming elections to fill positions in the...
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Israeli boycott refuses to stay off the agenda
The proposed academic boycott of Israel is likely to resurface as an issue for the University and College Union during the leadership election, it emerged this week. A motion passed last year by...
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Staff who donate their home to university could win tax break
Academics who have devoted their lives to their universities could now be asked to donate their homes, writes Claire Sanders. Reports that Tony Blair is keen to create a multimillion-pound endowment...
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Threat to medical schools as health budgets slashed
Training of doctors and nurses in universities faces funding problems that could further undermine recruitment of clinical academics. Claire Sanders reports. The future of medical education is...
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Out of limelight but no shrinking violet
Sociologist Kay Hampton has stepped into the lions' den of the race debate, taking over from Trevor Phillips as chair of the Commission for Racial Equality. Unlike her predecessor, Professor Hampton...
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More support call for unfettered freedom
Some 225 people have signed up to support a proposed new legal definition of "academic freedom" that would give scholars the unfettered right to offend others, without fear of sanction. The Times...
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Concern at bid to move nurse education cash to Hefce
The health department could transfer the billions currently spent on nursing education to the Higher Education Funding Council for England, increasing the funding council's budget by about 15 per...
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Scrapheap still looms for those who hit 65
Many academics nearing retirement fear they will be forced to quit before they are ready despite the introduction of regulations to end age discrimination. Melanie Newman reports. When Paulina Palmer...
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Research council demands that fellows spread the word
Susan Deuchars's academic fellowship involves not only research and teaching but also explaining her brand of biological science to primary schoolchildren and even a Beaver Cub group, writes Anthea...
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PhDs fail to sell their skills to employers
Postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers are failing to make employers aware of their skills, according to analysis carried out by the UK Grad programme. UK Grad presented a new meta-analysis of...
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Legal bid to stop course closures
Union leaders at Birmingham University are threatening to take legal action over compulsory redundancy and course closure plans that they say amount to "institutional racism", writes Tony Tysome....