Employers revise pay deal up to 2.9 per cent
INDUSTRIAL action by university staff now looks less likely following a marginally revised pay offer from employers this week. But union negotiators said they remained disappointed at the deal, which...
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Students in dark over loan payments
FIRST-year students will be "signing blind" to loan agreements this autumn because the government is still working out details for a repayment mechanism, it emerged this week. Education minister Kim...
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Brain and brawn
(Photograph) - Brain and brawn: miners at Cleveland Potash are learning to be trainers in a staff development programme organised by Teesside University to encourage staff to take NVQs in various...
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Sociologist fights dismissal
TROUBLED Doncaster College was in the limelight this week as the case of lecturer John Giddins, who claims wrongful dismissal, came to industrial tribunal in Sheffield. Mr Giddins was made...
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Floud to sit on new London board
Roderick Floud, provost of London Guildhall University, is to represent further and higher education on the new London Development Partnership. The LDP has been set up to handle regeneration issues...
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Sectarian killers praise lifelong learning
Northern Ireland's "most vicious killers" could prove role models for community involvement in the country's first post-Dearing campus, an Ulster University professor has claimed. Wallace Ewart is...
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Forum threat to autonomy
Universities should join colleges, local government and employers in proposed new regional forums, which would impose common principles for the planning, funding and inspection of all post-16...
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Cadogan successor
Bets are on for who will succeed Sir John Cadogan as head of the UK research councils. An advert in a Sunday paper seems to dispel any thoughts that the post may be done away with as previously...
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Coy Mowlam
The Department of Education for Northern Ireland last week produced a draft press release on the further and higher education initiative at Springvale, Belfast highlighting a government contribution...
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Cambridge floodlights
The five-year row at Cambridge over plans to floodlight the university athletics track is generating heat as well as light (see page 2). Many astronomers say light pollution will destroy their view...
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Repetitive injury
Forced to leave this week's Quality Assurance Agency conference in Glasgow early David Miller, chair of the Scottish Qualifications Authority, said he was relieved that this would spare him any...
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Crocodile tears
Vice-chancellors found themselves badly in need of leadership as they attempted to make their way across the Warwick University campus from reception room to lecture theatre on the first day of the...
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Slumber party
Delegates thought they were in for a spicy speech when their afterdinner speaker, National Health Service chief executive Alan Langlands, began by rattling off a list of vice-chancellors who had...
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Constable's wane
Alumnus to be proud of No 170 spent this week displaying qualities of adhesiveness previously only associated with Yorkshire cricketers at their most stubborn. Ian Oliver, chief constable of Grampian...
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Research assessment set for 2001
THE funding councils have confirmed that the next research assessment exercise will be in 2001. But dates have to be formally settled between the different councils in England, Scotland and Wales....