Projects tackle disability
A network of 50 projects to improve university provision for students with disabilities is to be coordinated by a National Disability Team, based in Coventry University's Centre for Research and...
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John Patton
The president of the EIS, John Patton, has called for the restoration of national negotiating rights for Scottish further education lecturers. The then employers' association withdrew from national...
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UfI pockets Pounds 84m for autumn launch
The government gave its lifelong learning flagship, the University for Industry, a fair wind last week with an Pounds 84 million budget for its autumn launch. Higher education minister Baroness...
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Conflicting interests in the grey market
The Universities Superannuation Scheme has a surplus of 8 per cent - Pounds 1.44 billion. Of this, Pounds 201 million will go to improve member benefits and Pounds 561.3 million has gone to lower the...
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Levelling the pensions field
Keele University could become the first university to bring its academic-related staff into the Universities Superannuation Scheme, under rule changes announced by the USS in March. A spokesman for...
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Newi accepts rebuke
The extent of mismanagement at the North East Wales Institute is revealed in the unpublished recommendations of an investigation by the Welsh funding council, obtained by The THES. The...
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FEFC gives Bolton 'worst possible grade'
Governance and management at Bolton College is so weak that the college has been failing to meet its statutory responsibilities, according to an inspection report from the Further Education Funding...
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Student rags are hard up for news hacks
Rising levels of student debt could damage one of Britain's oldest traditions - the student newspaper - according to leaders of the recently created Student Press Association. Chris Wright, Spa chair...
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EIS set to negotiate new staff contracts
The Educational Institute of Scotland is preparing for local talks in the new universities following its members' acceptance of a revised contract for new staff. The EIS University Lecturers'...
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Robots fail to spark interest
Students are proving uninterested in creating the robots needed for Britain's future factories as numbers enrolling for manufacturing courses continue to fall. Two leading university-based groups in...
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Peter Lampl
It was when Peter Lampl returned to England after 15 years in the United States and found that his old grammar school had gone private, his school friends were paying for their children's education...
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Beyond obvious talents
TV heroine Xena is used to overcoming opponents, but can she survive academic scrutiny? In the latest issue of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, David Adcock, a religious studies...
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Media hard times
The press has given Oxford vice-chancellor Colin Lucas a hard time over the Laura Spence case. But he has had worse run-ins with the press. In an interview in UK Press Gazette, Boris Johnson, Lucas's...
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Changing standards
Amid all the talk of elitism, Oxford and Cambridge must be relieved that Prince William seems to have set his sights on Gordon Brown's alma mater. To gain his chosen place at Edinburgh University to...
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Not even if you pay me
Mention parking charges and most academics perk up. So Coventry University decided to try to raise the profile of its city via a competition offering a prize of a free parking permit. The catch?...