Mackney: I'd quit for merger
Paul Mackney is offering to step down as general secretary of lecturers' union Natfhe to smooth the way for a merger with the Association of University Teachers. His announcement came this week as a...
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Staff fear jobs may be shelved at King's
Staff and students at King's College London fear that the institution's £30 million new library will mean possible redundancies and has already led to slashed book budgets, writes Cherry Canovan. The...
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Quality kitsch
One of Scotland's leading contemporary artists has been appointed to a new chair at Dundee University in the faculty where he was a student 20 years ago. Calum Colvin will professor of fine art...
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Ucas looks to record intake
Admissions tutors have got off to a flying start in filling the extra places for the coming academic year. The number of students accepted on full-time courses is up 7 per cent on this time last year...
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Academics set to sell more expertise
Academics' commercial consultancy work is set to join teaching and research as a core university activity, vice-chancellors predicted this week. The Universities UK good practice guide Optimising...
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Campus funded by sale of sites
The University of Hertfordshire is selling two of its sites to pay for a £105 million campus. The move on to a 50-acre site near the university's Hatfield campus means that by September 2003,...
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Green studies 'out of touch'
Environment students are being exploited by universities as "bums on seats", according to a leading campaigner and academic. Shirley Ali Khan, director of the charity Sustainability First and a...
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Divine art
Nick Elphick with his sculpture Man and Nature at the Cathedral Steel exhibition at Sheffield Cathedral. Works by students at Sheffield Hallam and Loughborough universities were commissioned by...
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Law school to merge with City
City University and the Inns of Court School of Law are to merge to form an institute that will offer courses for students and legal practitioners. The school, whose alumni include Tony Blair,...
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Penalties fear over increase in intake
St Andrews University could breach stringent intake guidelines because buoyant applications mean that it need not go into clearing this year. Potentially, the university faces severe penalties from...
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V-c intends to create a richer and larger Bath
The University of Bath plans to become more entrepreneurial while expanding. Glynis Breakwell, former pro vice-chancellor for research and enterprise at the University of Surrey, will start as Bath's...
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LJMU dropout rate criticised
Dropout rates of almost 50 per cent have been identified by teaching quality inspectors at Liverpool John Moores University. The Quality Assurance Agency highlighted students' "financial,...
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Nestlé set for campus debates on boycotts
Nestlé is beginning a charm offensive to try to turn around its poor image in student unions. The company has been vilified for years by students campaigning against its sale of baby milk...
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Teaching assistants fight for rights
A campaign to improve working conditions for graduate teaching assistants at the University of Manchester has attracted support from around the world and may go national, writes Cherry Canovan....
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Analysis: Rich cashing in on student digs
High interest rates and high living costs make investing in a house for student offspring a sound option for those who can raise the capital. Alison Utley and Jared Wilson report. The rich are...