NUS plans a five-pronged submission
THE National Union of Students is planning to formulate a five-point submission to Dearing, writes Alan Thomson. * NUS consultations with student unions have shown a demand for greater integration of...
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No elite pleads Natfhe
There must be no new divide between an elite group of institutions and the rest, lecturers' union Natfhe has told the Dearing inquiry, writes Harriet Swain. Financial hardship has fuelled calls from...
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Parting gift
Parting gift: London Guildhall lecturer David Lane is one of six academics made compulsorily redundant as part of the university's recovery plan. Mathematician Dr Lane was joined on the picket line...
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Growing gains
University College, Stockton, is to announce plans for a huge teaching and research complex. The college, part of the University of Durham, now has nearly 800 students compared with just 130 in its...
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Cash for directions
The thrust of Department for Education and Employment expenditure must be "directed at preparing people of all ages for their future working life", said the Government this week, responding to the...
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Staff vote for PRP salary scheme
NOTTINGHAM University is to introduce a profit-related pay scheme, even though staff were not allowed to have copies of the rules governing the scheme. The PRP scheme will be introduced with almost...
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Scots student halls get safety upgrade
Universities and colleges in two Scottish cities face bills of millions of pounds for the refurbishment of halls of residence because of an anomaly in the application of local authority housing rules...
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Anger at cut in grants for young engineers
The Government's axing of a bursary scheme for promising engineering students has been slammed as "disgusting and thoughtless" by the Engineering Professors' Council and the Engineering Council,...
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Dogged persuasion
"Passports for pets" may have gained popularity with animal lovers' campaign against Britain's tough quarantine regulations. But it is too late for one university which, in order to tempt a...
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Smacker experts
Strathclyde University press office is urging academics to get in touch for inclusion in its register of experts for the media. "The university, your department, your research and you could be...
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Soul mate
It must be a strange existence when you leave a high-profile job. The phone stops ringing, the press no longer seek your opinion and you might easily get the idea that no one cares. No such worries...
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Gown and grab
Outdated, expensive garment it may be, but the academic gown still has some uses - at least if you wish to avoid embarrassment. The tale reaches us of a young academic elected to a fellowship at an...
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Jude the mature
The recently released film Jude has sent a frisson through university administration departments in the last frantic weeks of trying to hit student number targets. "How times change," remarked one...
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Jammy job
At a time when a PhD at the very least is needed for the lowliest academic appointment, an obituary in Edinburgh University's staff bulletin harks back to halcyon days. Stuart Piggot, one of the...
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Missed mission
Educated by missionaries, then into the army at the age of 18. Just the sort of education guaranteed to produce the ideal citizen in these morally challenged times - or so you would think from some...