Keele staff face further cuts
Keele University shocked staff last week by announcing a new wave of job losses before its present round of cutbacks has been completed. About 24 academic posts are expected to go in the latest...
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Insecurity tops the list of job woes
University staff are more stressed than people in comparable jobs, such as those in the police force or county councils, according to new research. Job insecurity heads the list of troubles, followed...
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TV bid to provoke science debate
Prime-time television viewers in the UK could soon be treated to an advert promoting academic journals after the success of a 30-second commercial in the US. It was aired during big-audience shows to...
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Students admit sex assaults
A quarter of students have been bullied into having sex and a third have physically assaulted their partner, researchers at Glasgow Caledonian University believe. In a survey of 250 students at GCU,...
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£16m ignites motorsports
A motorsports academy may get off the starting grid with a share of £16 million from the government. The cash, announced by trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt, has been given in response to...
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Quality audit queries OU-validated degrees
The standards of degree courses offered by more than 100 institutions validated by the Open University have been called into question by the Quality Assurance Agency. After an audit of one of the OU'...
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Whistleblowers: Oxford Brookes offers £100K to avoid court
Almost 40 students seeking about £1 million compensation after Oxford Brookes University failed to gain professional accreditation for their osteopathy degree course have been offered ex gratia...
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S African v-c warns UK over divisions
The British government risks trampling on academic freedoms and university autonomy as it attempts to reform higher education, a visiting South African vice-chancellor has warned. Barney Pityana,...
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Unions on warpath over reward for 'star' teachers
Union attacks on singling out "star" teachers and departments for financial reward rather than raising salaries across the board have drawn a muted response from the Higher Education Funding Council...
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Ombudsman set up but late and only voluntary
An ombudsman for universities will be ready to take student complaints from next January - four months later than the government promised in its white paper and three years after ministers called for...
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£250,000 fillip for equal ops
Equal opportunities and fairness for all staff will be boosted by a £250,000 research programme by the funding councils, write Alison Goddard and Olga Wojtas. The programme aims to "lead to...
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Stirling eksampals
Good to see Middlesex University is upholding the highest standards of spellink, grammer and sintacks. Its journalism and communications studies student handbook, a copy of which was sent to The...
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Edinburgh spearheads campaign to send books to Iraq
Edinburgh University has launched a campaign to collect books for Iraq's universities. Yasir Suleiman of Edinburgh's Institute for the Study of the Arab World and Islam initiated the campaign. He...
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Findings: Sea walls need not be concrete
Hideous concrete structures may not be needed to protect beautiful coastlines from vanishing into the sea, according to research from the University of Sheffield, writes Martin Ince. The university's...
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Findings: Wrong bra size fuels surgery
Some women could be undergoing unnecessary breast-reduction surgery because they wear the wrong size bra, according to UK researchers, writes Natasha Gilbert. Adam Greenbaum, specialist registrar in...