Grid group wins funds
A grouping of computer software development teams at Southampton, Edinburgh and Manchester universities has received £5.6 million from the research councils' e-science scheme. OMII-UK (the Open...
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Staff in boycott could be sued
Abertay's vice-principal issues warning backed by legal experts. Abertay Dundee University has warned staff that it could sue them for taking industrial action short of a strike. Abertay appears to...
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Unions and universities call in Acas
The national arbitration service has been called in to help break the deadlock between the lecturers' unions and the employers ahead of next week's formal pay talks. But even if the parties can...
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Dispute dispatches
Warwick University this week became the first confirmed university to deliver on its threat to dock the pay of staff taking part in the assessment boycott. In a memo to heads of department, vice-...
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Ordinary Jo puts Sebastian to flight
Students were once a rare breed, writes Harriet Swain, but now they are anything but extraordinary. Students and student life have gone from the elite to the commonplace in the past half a century,...
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Staff fear for jobs over UCL deficit
Academics at University College London fear that a wave of compulsory redundancies is about to hit their institution. Malcolm Grant, UCL provost, said that he intended to cut the number of teaching...
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Long summer break may be cut short by two-year degree plan
The introduction of two-year degrees could herald the end of the long academic summer holidays, according to universities involved in piloting the courses. Steve Wyn Williams, responsible for the...
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PCs pocket PCs-to-go
Policemen can now fight crime and excess paperwork simultaneously thanks to a Glasgow University spin-off company. Lothian and Borders Police, as part of a four-month trial, have issued 300 officers...
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Mark-up of 14% gave 'fails' a pass
De Montfort staff say they were pressed into inflating grades. Phil Baty reports. The full story of how De Montfort University raised failing students' exam results, in the face of furious opposition...
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Oxford is urged to split v-c role
As John Hood prepares to issue a white paper on governance, Claire Sanders reports on divisions among staff. Oxford University should adopt a US style of academic leadership, with the vice-chancellor...
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Rising stars in the market and on the shelves
Business Initiative of the Year It can be all too easy for spin-off firms to feel that they are losing their ties with parent universities. But The Times Higher Award for Business Initiative of the...
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When utopia beckons: profile of Dylan Evans
Those academics who spent at least part of the Easter break fantasising about escaping the burdens of university life should take heart from Dylan Evans, a Bath University lecturer. Dr Evans, a...
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Striking, sanctions and the battle of statistics
The Times Higher advice panel answers readers' questions on pay docking, pensions and a host of other concerns relating to the industrial dispute If I have taken part in strike action, does it affect...
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Who got that job?
Stewart Muir, research assistant, Real Life Methods Node, Economic and Social Research Council National Centre for Research Methods, department of sociology, Manchester University Job advertised in...
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Hard work, not money, key to luring research stars north
Scottish universities claim that academic resources rather than telephone-number salaries are the key to luring academic research stars, writes Olga Wojtas. C. Duncan Rice, principal of Aberdeen...