Murphy's address
Jim Murphy, president of the National Union of Students, narrowly avoided a possible stoning to death before last week's launch of the NUS campaign against campus racism. The posters for the campaign...
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Union fury over pension privatisation
Unions in further and higher education and across the civil service reacted with anger this week at the Government's announcement that the running of the Teachers' Superannuation Scheme is to be...
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Professor claims book fails to be novel
A British-based academic is at the centre of an Australian literary scandal. Brian Matthews, head of London University's Menzies centre for Australian studies, found himself sharing Australian front...
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GNVQ plan doubts
Higher education quality watchdogs have questioned the need for new higher-level General National Vocational Qualifications. Work already under way on defining academic, vocational and personal...
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Staff query colleagues' exit
Staff at Coventry University's school of engineering want an independent inquiry into the way the institution's senior management handled disciplinary proceedings brought against two professors, who...
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Recycling
(Photograph) - Recycling: Darren Speck, a first-year engineering student at Warwick University, seen here with a sculpture, won the BTEC engineering student of the year award last year with his...
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Video's star rises over in East London
Job applicants to British universities may soon find face to face interviews have become obsolete after the University of East London successfully conducted an interview with a United States...
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Geoffrey Alderman
Geoffrey Alderman, head of academic development and quality assurance at Middlesex University, is not a member of the quality assessment committee of the Higher Education Funding Council for England...
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Food for thought
The British Association for the Advancement of Science this week launched its bid to write a youth science White Paper with a public debate on food production at Surrey University. The debate is the...
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Bickerstaffe elected
Rodney Bickerstaffe has been elected general secretary of Unison. Mr Bickerstaffe, who has been an associate general secretary of the union since July 1993, won 151,893 votes in a membership ballot...
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Esteemed nationalism scholar dies
Ernest Gellner was at the height of his influence and leading a remarkable flowering of academic interest in nationalism when he was struck down by an unexpected heart attack at Prague airport on...
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Constitutions are fine, Nolan told
Additional safeguards against impropriety in the running of universities are not necessary, the Nolan Committee was told by university chairmen this week. In recent cases where allegations of...
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THES Internet Service
The THES Internet Service includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper and all our advertisements, updated on the Tuesday before publication of the paper The service is availableon the...
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Chancellor choice queried
(Photograph) - The debate over the election and role of the university chancellor was gaining momentum this week at Huddersfield University, which has been without one since last December. The search...
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Fears grow over rush to publish
Huw Richards, in the third part of our series on the Research Assessment Exercise, examines book production. A deluge of new books is likely in the first quarter of 1996 as publishers respond to the...