Most students back deferred fees plan, survey reveals
A majority of students support the government's decision to defer payment of tuition fees until after graduation, but most balk at the £3,000-a-year charges proposed by ministers, according to...
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Email embarrasses Birkbeck
As ill-judged remarks go, it is not on the scale of Jo Moore, the public relations consultant who dubbed September 11 "a good day to bury bad news". But Birkbeck College's media and publicity officer...
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Scottish contract culture continues
The proportion of researchers on short-term contracts in Scotland is likely to remain high despite demands that institutions take action to reduce it. Most of Scotland's higher education institutions...
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'Role split is an attack on identity'
Do you really need to do research to be a good tutor? Pat Leon reports The fury over proposals to create a teaching-only tier of universities is based partly on a belief that students benefit when...
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Fellows: on the front line
Pat Leon asks a winner of one of this year's national teaching fellowships how she manages. Name: Vicki Tariq Age: 46 Job: Senior lecturer in biology, Queen's University, Belfast. I'm a "skills...
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Pandemic fears over training gap
Medical students are receiving "patchy" training on infection, despite a growing risk of a new pandemic, the Lords science and technology committee said last week. At the release of a report on...
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Today's news
Top universities make breakaway move on pay The Russell Group of universities, representing 19 of the top research-led institutions, including Oxford, Cambridge and Bristol, is planning to break...
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Elite 19 to set own pay agenda
Top British universities are to break ranks with the rest of the nation's higher education institutions by setting their own policy on issues such as academic pay and student tuition fees. The move...
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Winston IVF clinic loses case at tribunal
A scientist who was dismissed from her job at Lord Robert Winston's world-renowned fertility unit at Imperial College London just days after she had suffered a fourth miscarriage has won a case...
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In the news: Alan Gilbert
Alan Gilbert was this week named the first vice-chancellor of the merged University of Manchester and University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. Professor Gilbert is the...
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Appointments
* Ralph Seymour-Jackson, former IT director of Abbey National and head of UK operations at Scottish Provident, has been appointed chief executive of the Student Loans Company. * Richard Tait, former...
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Shake-up is price of 7.7% pay offer
Lecturers have been offered a pay rise of 7.7 per cent over two years if they accept the biggest shake-up in their career structures for 40 years. After more then 28 hours of intensive talks last...
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Pension crisis on cards
University non-teaching staff are more likely to become embroiled in the pensions crisis besetting the private sector than their academic colleagues, according to credit ratings agency Standard &...
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Wary FE unions say yes to deal
Further education employers and union leaders have agreed to recommend a two-year pay deal to address recruitment and retention problems in colleges. Union leaders have accepted an offer of a 3 per...
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Nottingham Trent art professor who organised striptease loses director post
The art professor who invited a former lap-dancer to perform a striptease for his students at Nottingham Trent University has lost his role as the UK's only university artistic director, writes Phil...