AUT call to action over pay
The Association of University Teachers has agreed to prepare for industrial action, including one-day strikes, if its pay demands are not met, writes Harriet Swain. Members at the winter council...
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Fair pay
(Photograph) - Unison, which has long campaigned to raise wages, has called for further education staff to get a pay rise of Pounds 500 or 5 per cent, whichever is greater. Its claim is linked to the...
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IRC to get Hera data
RESULTS of a study into a controversial job evaluation scheme for universities are to be fed into a major review of academic pay. Details of a six-month pilot study into Higher Education Role...
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MRC cashes in on basic research success
The Medical Research Council this week became the first of the UK research councils to launch a venture capital fund to help commercialise basic research. The UK Medical Ventures Fund, which has so...
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Call for comments on plan for more doctors
Universities are being asked to comment on the recommendation that the UK needs to train an extra 1,000 doctors a year. The Medical Workforce Standing Advisory Committee, chaired by Nottingham...
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He or she who hesitates performs badly
Students who procrastinate suffer more ill health and do significantly worse academically than their non-procrastinating colleagues. Research from the Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, United...
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Women economists discuss scarcity
Women are "seriously under-represented" in economics, research by the Royal Economics Society has found. Women make up 30 per cent of students training for economics doctorates but only 15 per cent...
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Imperial team scoops Pounds 1,000 biotech prize
A team of undergraduates from Imperial College, London last week won a competition aimed at encouraging entrepreneurship among young biotechnology researchers. Imperial's team produced a business...
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Europeans fear loss of electronic publications
The importance of storing electronically published research findings and papers so that they can be easily accessed was underlined this week by Academia Europaea when its representatives met Sir...
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Teacher training in schools gets bad report
School-based teacher training courses, much hailed by the Teacher Training Agency, are not working, the Universities Council for the Education of Teachers has claimed. An Ofsted report on the Oxford...
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MA candidate appeals against 'plagiarism'
Kamran Beg, 26, who was denied his Cambridge University MA following accusations of plagiarism, has won leave in the High Court for a judicial review of Cambridge's disciplinary procedure. Beg, 26,...
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Millett takes teachers back to basics
Some university teacher training departments are far behind the best and risk losing accreditation and funds, Teacher Training Agency chief executive Anthea Millet said this week. Launching a...
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Blackstone calls for research cash boost
BRITAIN should spend more on research and treat it as a long-term investment, says higher education minister Baroness Blackstone, writes Julia Hinde. The minister, who last year felt the wrath of...
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Waiting for Gordon
HIGHER education minister Baroness Blackstone admitted to the House of Commons science and technology committee last week that at times she felt "ashamed" of the equipment in university science...
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Chairs
University of Wales, Cardiff The following former readers have been awarded personal chairs: Michael Bloor, school of social and administrative studies; Kenneth Broadley, Welsh school of pharmacy;...