Pay snub puts strike on cards
The prospect of a winter of discontent in universities loomed large this week as lecturers' union Natfhe joined the Association of University Teachers in rejecting the national pay offer as "...
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Top-ups are real enemy, say Scots
English top-up fees are potentially "much, much more problematic" for Scottish universities' competitiveness than more concentrated research funds, the chairman of the Scottish higher education...
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RS backs cloning ban
The Royal Society has backed calls for a worldwide ban on human reproductive cloning. More than 60 science academies around the world have endorsed a statement urging the United Nations to agree on a...
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Cardiff to lecture online
Students at Cardiff University may soon be able to access lectures and seminars without leaving halls of residence, thanks to a £4.5 million computer network.
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'Ban extremists' call
A study by a University of Leicester professor is calling on the government to ban religious extremists from entering the country. Richard Bonney, professor of history at Leicester and an expert on...
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Warwick ups security
Emergency phones have been installed at the University of Warwick after a foreign student was raped on campus. The phones were imported from the US to increase student safety after the attack in June...
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No support for Welsh
The failure of the Welsh government to give financial backing to the growth of Welsh-medium education in the university and further education sectors came under attack at the annual conference of...
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Easy access to experts
Scotland's scientists have set up a scheme to give the Scottish Parliament rapid and independent expert information. More than 50 "topic coordinators", all fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,...
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Scots unions to merge
Members of the Scottish Higher and Further Education Association have voted overwhelmingly to merge with Scotland's largest teaching union, the Educational Institute of Scotland. The new union will...
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Corrections
• An incorrect email address was included with an article on a conference on "Further and higher education: today's issues" to be held at Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, on October 7. The correct...
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Labour assassin shows her claws to joker in pack
The gloves came off as the Liberal Democrats and Labour supporters tangled over top-up fees at a conference fringe meeting this week, writes Alan Thomson. Sensing a bit of a scrap, Monday night's...
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Lib Dems: we'll tax the rich to scrap top-ups
The Liberal Democrats unveiled a £2 billion tax-and-spend higher education policy at their conference in Brighton this week that would abolish tuition fees and exempt England from the £2,000 graduate...
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Unions vent fury at government
Lecturers' and student union leaders gave a ringing endorsement to the Liberal Democrats' opposition to tuition fees and further research concentration, underlining their disillusion with the Labour...
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No sex please, we're stressed
It's official: university staff make more serious professional errors, suffer more health problems, are more likely to resort to drink and have less sex as a result of stress and overwork compared...