Fabian Society voices alarm over private deals
The Fabian Society has sounded a warning note over the involvement of private firms in delivering core services to higher education. The author of the report, Colin Crouch, professor of sociology at...
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Whistleblowers: Student's human rights 'were violated' claim
The High Court violated the human rights of former PhD student Kevin Wilkinson when it threw out his claim for more than £100,000 in damages against Aston University, the leading human rights lawyer...
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Skills paper must not ignore FE-business link
The government is in danger of ignoring some of the most valuable services provided for employers in further education colleges as it assembles its skills strategy white paper, college heads have...
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Infatuated by Freud Why cultural studies still follows the father of psychoanalysis Hitting the heights John Hemming reviews four books on climbing Mount Everest Focus: Politics Learning Skills in...
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UUK: industry must have input into curriculum
Businesses must have a more effective input into the design and delivery of courses at undergraduate, postgraduate and foundation level, according to Universities UK's submission to the Treasury-...
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Scots 'smug' about their joint progress in widening access
Scotland will soon have to justify any funding and policy differences between further and higher education when it comes to widening access, according to Martin Fairbairn, the Scottish Further...
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NHS to get injection of genetics knowledge
Alan Milburn, secretary of state for health, is to publish a white paper on genetics that is intended to push knowledge of the subject deep into the National Health Service and the rest of government...
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'Hurt' your students to escalate pay fight
Money and merger top the agenda at the AUT conference. Phil Baty reports It is time to "hurt students" in the fight for better pay and conditions, members of the Association of University Teachers...
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Lecturers reject call to boycott Israelis
The AUT has rejected an academic boycott of Israel amid concerns that it would alienate "progressive" Israeli academics who share the union's concerns about the country's human-rights record....
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Unity motion brings 110,000-strong superunion ever closer
The creation of a single union for more than 110,000 lecturers came a step closer last week as the AUT agreed plans for closer relations with rival lecturers' union Natfhe. Delegates at the annual...
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Reforms threaten jobs
Plans to modernise university statutes and ordinances present a fundamental threat to academics' job security, the AUT has warned. Revised statutes governing employment rights in old universities...
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Women penalised
The higher education white paper could widen gender inequalities in universities. A motion from the AUT's annual women's meeting, carried unanimously, said that plans for performance-related pay...
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Pension pressure
The AUT is to press for a merger of the three main university pension schemes. A motion carried said that the existence of separate schemes for academics in old and new universities was "an...
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Collision averted
Conference delegates agreed to withdraw a controversial motion that could have forced the union to oppose the government's widening-participation plans and refuse to cooperate with the planned access...
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Hopeful innovators mimic Oxford model
University spin-offs in southern England may find getting funding a little easier with the launch of two investment networks modelled on a successful Oxford-based company. The two networks, in...