Unions boycott pay talks
Three campus trade unions have walked out of pay talks at Bath University after managers excused themselves and other senior staff from the controversial "job evaluations" that their less-elevated...
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Belfast bids for silent nights
Thursday is the worst night, say the long-term residents of Belfast's Holyland, a square kilometre of small houses close to Queen's University Belfast. That is party night - the evening before the...
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Fears of A-level reprieve grow
The Government risks missing an historic opportunity to help poor people into higher education if it fails to back the Tomlinson proposals to reform school qualifications, it was claimed this week....
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Bang the drum
Sheffield Hallam University's new student union opens this month - based in the silver drum buildings that once housed the National Centre for Popular Music. The Hallam Union Building of Sheffield...
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Are you a historian with telly vision?
The recipe for blending showmanship with scholarship to make the perfect TV don was revealed by the controller of the BBC's arts channel this week. Janice Hadlow, controller of BBC Four, gave a...
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Let's have top-ups but no Offa, say Welsh v-cs
Welsh vice-chancellors have called for the introduction of top-up fees in Wales without an English-style student access regulator. Vice-chancellors have told Welsh Assembly members that there is "no...
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Swingeing spin-off tax threat is lifted
Academics thinking of setting up spin-off companies breathed a sigh of relief this week as the threat of upfront multimillion-pound tax bills was removed. The Inland Revenue has published fresh...
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Women still low on list
Women make up just 15 per cent of university professors, figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency reveal. According to Hesa's 2003-04 staff data analysis, the proportion of female...
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Strike over pensions
Lecturers' union Natfhe may join other trade unions in a mass one-day strike over government plans to raise the normal pension age from 60 to 65. Natfhe is to ballot its 65,000 members recommending...
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...and over local pay
Lecturers at 54 "mixed economy" further and higher education colleges plan to strike next Thursday over national pay rises that have not been awarded locally. Lecturers' union Natfhe said the one-day...
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Proteome centre opens
Colin Blakemore, chief executive of the Medical Research Council, this week launched a £7.9 million research institute at Leeds University that will help build on the findings of the Human Genome...
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Humanities revamped
Lincoln University launched a new humanities department this week. The department will include English, history, media communications and drama. The department had been part of a faculty of media and...
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Heaney gift to Queen's
Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney has returned to his alma mater, Queen's University Belfast, to donate the papers from his award-winning verse translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf . Dr Heaney's...
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Keep London creative
London's universities must enhance the capital's position in the creative sector by offering new courses and employing leading practitioners to teach them, according to the group London Higher....