Payment stoppages pose legal problems
Ministers' clampdown on salary payments to suspended college managers will create a legal minefield, the Association of Colleges has warned. Following a string of scandals in which suspended college...
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Police training scheme under fire from both sides
Politicians from both sides have criticised the University of Ulster for deciding to validate part of a new training programme for police recruits. The future of policing is at the centre of...
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An unloaded chamber
The Lords have furthered the cause of higher education in the past. Alan Thomson asks whether a diminished upper housecan help in future. The histories of universities and the House of Lords are...
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Lost on the third way
Anthony Giddens's third way ("Giddens defends third-way politics", THES, October 29) is a muddle. First, state control does not equal "socialism" - what about the United States aerospace and defence...
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Software firms pay students on tailored degree
HAMBURG German software engineering companies are overcoming a chronic shortage of new recruits by offering students a salary to study a degree course specially tailored to their needs. Twelve...
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Lecturers strike for 19 per cent
MELBOURNE Universities across Australia are facing their worst industrial upheaval in more than ten years as academics and general staff push for a 19 per cent pay rise. Stoppages and strikes have...
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Sources for research funding
Each week this section list funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk. ROYAL SOCIETY www.royalsoc.ac.uk/ ies/ies.htm Study Visits to...
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Commons inquiry focuses on quality
MPs have made learning and teaching quality the main thrust of a Commons inquiry into higher education. The education select committee has identified nine areas of major interest for their inquiry,...
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World watch
Vice-chancellors and registrars of the francophone universities of Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Madagascar, the Central African Republic, Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda,...
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World watch
Final-year students at Italy's fine arts academies are to use their artistic skills to redecorate children's hospitals nationwide. The ministerial campaign to raise patients' spirits is jointly...
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Jordan leans on critics to quit
AMMAN Two human rights organisations have claimed that high-level political interference led to the resignation of a senior academic at Jordan University. Human Rights Watch's academic freedom...
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Science profits from 'hot' fossils
European palaeontologists are benefiting from the illegal side of the international fossil trade. Rare specimens of extinct life, such as Brazilian Pterosaurs and Chinese dinosaur eggs, are being...
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Part-time men reap rewards
Men rather than women, and young people rather than old, are likely to reap the greatest employment rewards from part-time higher education study, an Open University Quality Support Centre study...
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Tribunal leaves Mason Pounds 156,700 out of pocket
(Photograph) - The former principal of Glasgow Caledonian University had his compensation for dismissal cut from Pounds 168,000 to Pounds 11,300 by an employment tribunal this week. The Glasgow...
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N. Ireland seeks fairer research funding
A consultation paper issued by the Northern Ireland Higher Education Council invites suggestions before the end of January for an "equitable" and "transparent" research funding method. The paper says...