Cuts cut back
Cuts to the Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme have been restored following a meeting of the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The grant for 1996/97 will be Pounds 10 million,...
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Homes left alone
Academics have condemned the Government's decision to halt the General Household Survey, which gives an annual snapshot of social, living and working arrangements in 10,000 households. The Office of...
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Jordan forges Malaysian link
THE AL al-Bayt university in Jordan has applied to set up a branch campus in Kuantan, West Malaysia. About 800 Malaysian students study at the university in Jordan. Its degrees are recognised by...
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Get chartered
Universities and colleges have been urged to apply for a Charter Mark by Lord Henley. The education and employment minister said none were awarded in higher education last year. The scheme recognises...
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Brum goes Pounds 1m in red
THE UNIVERSITY of Birmingham has a Pounds 1 million projected deficit for next year and is planning up to 15 job cuts, but no top-up fees. Its prospectus has gone to the printers without the "health...
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Staff get under Pounds 4 an hour
THE Transport and General Workers Union has delivered a four-point submission to the Dearing committee highlighting the poor pay and conditions of the higher education sector's 32,000 manual and...
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Crunch time for fee warning
MOST universities have to decide this month whether to include a disclaimer in their 1998 prospectuses warning that fees could be introduced. Advice issued last month to the Committee of Vice...
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College saves with profit-related pay
UNIVERSITY College London is considering a profit-related pay scheme even though tax relief on PRP will soon be phased out. Provost Sir Derek Roberts said the proposal was unrelated to attempts to...
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Lecturers set to break rules
LECTURERS in the old universities have voted to escalate industrial action in the dispute over pay, potentially fracturing the unity forged by higher education unions. The Association of University...
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Grassed up
So where did the spirit of 1968 go? Perhaps the Solomon Islands, where deputy prime minister Danny Phillips has accused students of contributing to the mounting problems of marijuana use. Students...
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Guest blitz
Bad news for those who look forward to the annual Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals' garden party. CVCP parliamentary worker Mary Morgan, long-time vigilant gatekeeper for the event, got...
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Phil the beak
None of this wishy-washy business about being kind to the animal kingdom at the Open University. A poster seen on noticeboards this week promises a seminar with a speaker from the "Royal Society for...
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On the money
Vice chancellors not amused at earning less than professors in their medical schools can reflect that it could be worse. Sports Illustrated reports that one Mark Yudof was appointed as president of...
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Football bad
The university soccer clubs in Edinburgh look as though they could do with Minnesota-style high-priced coaching. As of last weekend the bottom club in the Premier Division of the extremely tough Pro...
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Fax alert
While we do not know about the staff, there appears to be a crisis of morale among the office equipment at the CVCP. Staff were shocked last week when two police officers burst in and dashed up the...