Part-timers merit equality
Work practices were key issues at Natfhe's final conference. Phil Baty reports. The fight against the "disgusting exploitation" of part-time and hourly paid lecturers will be a key priority of the...
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Call to use Fol to fight 'abuse' by managers
The University and College Union will turn to the Freedom of Information Act in a concerted campaign to hold university managers to account for "abusive management and financial practices". Delegates...
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Conference round-up
Natfhe delegates warned that the new University and College Union must continue to fight for the proper recognition of lecturers' "teaching and learning" activities following Natfhe's merger this...
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Going underground
Royal College of Art printmaking students are displaying their work in London Tube stations this week. Posters encompassing photography, drawing, etchings, collage, mixed media and digital techniques...
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£5K is limit for postgrad study
Review helps UK target 'hidden' students, writes Olga Wojtas. Most students contemplating postgraduate study are not willing to pay more than £5,000 a year in fees, according to research. The survey...
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Winners will stand out from the crowd
Higher Education Institution of the Year It was testimony to the many strengths of the UK university sector that last year judges found this a tough category to call. Eventually, it was the sheer...
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Internet list leaves out prestigious US names
The UK Government plans to exclude top US universities including Yale, Stanford and Cornell from an internet register of "approved institutions" unless they gain accreditation in Britain, it has...
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Personal costs of a very public dispute
The pay action has seen mounting tensions between academics, managers and students, which will have a lasting impact on academe. Chloe Stothart reports. It is easy to see the pay dispute merely in...
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IT beats health to get the biggest slice of revised FP7 budget
Information technology will get top priority in the rewritten European Union Seventh Framework Programme, commanding 16.7 per cent of the overall budget. According to European Commission papers...
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Lifestyle link to cancer
Female university students best fit the profile for high risk of developing breast cancer, a Spanish study has found. Nicolas Olea examined the data on 500 women admitted to the Hospital Clinico, in...
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Dean sacked 'Soviet' style
Strong-arm tactics by a university rector have left an historian out in the cold, reports Nick Holdsworth. The dean of one of Russia's leading university history faculties is fighting to keep his job...
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Abandoned students fork out for hired help
Students at a German university are tackling understaffing by paying for a lecturer themselves. With just five professors for 3,000 students in the language and literature department, a group of...
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Bristol opens talks on Adelaide venture
State-supported and private UKinstitutions are lining up to establish bases in Australia. Geoff Maslen reports. Bristol University has discussed setting up a base in Adelaide with the South...
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Boards face crackdown over trustee nepotism
Congress has promised to investigate a succession of scandals involving US university boards of trustees. The latest row involved decisions by the board of American University, Washington DC, to pay...
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No digs for foreigners
Foreign archaeologists will be banned from excavations in Belarus this summer, according to Nasha Niva , the Belarusian opposition newspaper, writes Vera Rich. The ban has been imposed by the...