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...
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Clunky writing is proof positive of lazy thinking
Academic writers have no excuse for failing to communicate their ideas clearly, argues Michael Bulley. I've been sacked as an academic proofreader. At least, I haven't been sent anything to proofread...
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Gary Day
The renowned vice-chancellor I. A. M. Wortheverypenny staggered through the vaulted archway of the university information centre and collapsed. He was definitely out of condition and the port didn't...
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Battered treasures are the best
TREASURES OF THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford. Until December 31, 2008 What do you buy someone who has everything? It's not a problem that keeps many of us...
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Staff face virtual redundancy
Academics at Manchester University were last week seen walking aimlessly down corridors trying to think of something to do. No, not another symptom of the pay dispute. The university's internet...
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Charity spokesman
Oxford Brookes University vice-chancellor Graham Upton raised a few eyebrows when he took off on a bike ride from Land's End to John O'Groats last week, the day before the latest pay talks. But it is...
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'Did you just call me a snake?'
During this weekend's Natfhe annual conference, the union's general secretary Paul Mackney finally gave his official backing to colleague Roger Kline in the long-haul race to lead the merged...
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A case of duplicate campaigning
Roger Kline has received many plaudits after his pledge to publish his monthly expenses online to show that he is not spending Natfhe members' hard-earned subscription payments on his personal...