Big cuts on cards if RAE goes
Treasury proposals to axe the unpopular research assessment exercise could destabilise the sector, with some universities losing up to 80 per cent of their research income, vice-chancellors have...
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'We're small enough to be friendly but big enough to be serious players'
Steve Smith, vice-chancellor of Exeter University, has been appointed chair of the 1994 Group Steve Smith, the vice-chancellor of Exeter University, was thrust into the limelight just over a year ago...
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Equality law could pave way to scrapping of retirement age
A number of universities could do away with a set retirement age as a result of new legislation on age discrimination, a conference heard last week. Bolton University is considering allowing staff to...
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On the move...
* University College London has appointed Sally MacDonald director of UCL Museums and Collections. * Dame Jean Thomas , professor of macromolecular biochemistry at Cambridge University, has been...
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Hefce: give us power over cull
The funding council should be able to intervene to stop universities closing science departments but it does not have the clout, its acting chief tells MPs. Anna Fazackerley reports The head of the...
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Games gold rush for Loughborough's athletic elite
Loughborough University is celebrating the triumphs of its students in the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. Collectively, its athletes won more medals than the teams of many participating countries....
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Helping hands, legs, etc needed
Parents have long been involved in their offspring's university education. But how many would donate their bodies for the sake of the advancement of knowledge? writes Anna Fazackerley. Roy Lloyd is...
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Natfhe poised to take action over proposed jobs cuts
Redundancies planned at Northumbria and London South Bank universities have prompted staff protests and threats of industrial action on top of disruption arising from the pay dispute. Some 650...
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Dispute dispatches
* Institute of Education: staff report module assessments not being marked. An exam board has been cancelled because marking had not been completed and staff were not planning to attend. Helpdesks in...
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Dads' army stands by to beat exam boycott
Universities deny that drafting in retired staff to mark papers will be detrimental to quality. Alan Thomson reports Universities may seek to mobilise a "dads' army" of retired academics as part of...
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Bosses aid recruiting, say gleeful unions
Whatever else it may achieve, the pay dispute will have worked wonders for union recruitment, writes Alan Thomson. Both the Association of University Teachers and lecturers' union Natfhe have...
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Paws for thought
Lecturers' unions lobbied this week's pay negotiating meeting from which they had been barred because they refused to suspend their industrial action. The unions used a fat cat to draw attention to...
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'Derisory' 6% offer on table
Lecturers' unions this week rejected as "derisory" a pay offer of 6 per cent over two years, telling employers the dispute would continue until they come up with a credible deal. The Association of...
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'Overhaul engineering'
A third of UK engineering firms believe that graduates' skills deficiencies are costing them money, according to research by the Royal Academy of Engineering and Henley Management College. A report...
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London appoints Smith
Adrian Smith, principal of Queen Mary, University of London, has been appointed deputy vice-chancellor of the University of London. He will take up the part-time post in July for three years. He will...