Union optimistic over North London contracts
Talks will resume today at the University of North London over new contracts, which reduce holiday time and outlaw strikes. Lecturers union Natfhe was hopeful of reaching an agreement with management...
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SNP presents long-term view of Scotland's HE
The Scottish National Party will today unveil its education policy, which is expected to include a five-year funding programme for higher education institutions to encourage longer-term planning. It...
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Kidderminster wins reprieve from FEFC
Kidderminster College has been given the all-clear by the Training Standards Council just six weeks after a damning inspection report by the Further Education Funding Council. Principal Anthony...
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Pounds 5 million top-up to pull in drop-outs
Ministers have pledged Pounds 5 million to expand the government's New Start scheme to bring young drop-outs back into education. Speaking at a Further Education Development Agency conference in...
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Devolution may bring Scottish pay review
The Scottish Parliament may offer the prospect of a pay-review body for academics north of the border, according to the Association of University Teachers Scotland. The union's council will tomorrow...
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Slavonic school to stay put after UCL merger
The School of Slavonic and East European Studies will stay at its Bloomsbury site and retain its name after merger with University College London. These are two conditions out of 24 approved by SSEES...
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Natfhe calls on MPs in search for salary data
Natfhe has called on the Public Accounts Committee to investigate provision of data on lecturers' pay. In a letter to MP David Davis, chair of the committee, Tom Wilson, head of Natfhe's universities...
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Drinks all round for Coca-Cola graduates
The first students on Coca-Cola's degree in business and management have graduated. Staff from Coca-Cola's sales department studied for the bespoke degrees part-time over four years. The degree,...
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Call to get tough on sex bias
An average female academic in a UK university will earn between four and five years less salary than an equivalent man working the same number of years between starting and retiring, according to...
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Women opt for postgrad diplomas
Women may be finding it harder than men to gain professorships because they are less likely to aim for the most prestigious postgraduate qualifications, a Westminster University study suggests. Men...
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V-cs campaign for paid growth
Vice-chancellors are preparing to campaign for the resumption of funded higher education growth. They are commissioning independent research to support the case for more taxpayers' money to be spent...
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College in disarray
'Inspectors gave the college the worst possible inspection grades in one of the sector's worst-ever reports'. College inspectors have attacked a "failure to account for public funds" at Matthew...
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MP distances himself from failing Bilston
Labour MP Dennis Turner is standing firm as chairman of the all-party parliamentary group for further education, despite a report this week that implicates him in a severe college crisis. Mr Turner,...
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Ethnic recruitment is 'cavalier'
Prestigious London higher education institutions are showing a "cavalier" attitude to ethnic minority recruitment, according to the author of a major study into London skills needs. The study, to be...
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Racism rife in nursing
Lecturers' failure to challenge racist attitudes and their lack of cultural knowledge often upsets and discourages Asian students from pursuing careers in nursing and other health-related jobs,...