MPs push to abolish 'elitist' Oxbridge MAs
A cross-party group of MPs has stepped up pressure on Oxford and Cambridge universities to stop selling MAs. Oxbridge's practice of handing out the MA to first degree-holders three years after they...
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Heads are called rectors and are elected by all full and associate professors. A rector's term of office is three years, but many are elected for a second and even a third term. Some non-professors...
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Bin the CV, pen a manifesto
Should heads of universities be appointed or elected? Harriet Swain finds the UK and Europe do things very differently All in favour: should heads of UK institutions be asked to add electoral skills...
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Student unions feel pinch
Jobs are being axed at struggling student unions, pitching members of Unison, the administrative staff union, against students. At Manchester Metropolitan University, the student union has made 14...
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Put e-university on hold, say consultants
The e-university must be delayed until the project is better thought out, funding chiefs acknowledged this week. Consultant Pricewaterhouse-Coopers has been asked to produce a more detailed business...
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60 per cent of lecturers complain of bullying
Six in ten university and college lecturers say that they have been bullied, according to a survey by lecturers' union Natfhe. The main forms of reported bullying are criticism (30 per cent), power...
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Moves to improve the welfare of lab animals
Two initiatives to improve the welfare of laboratory animals have been announced by the Medical Research Council. The MRC, which is committed to the use of animals in tackling health problems such as...
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Academics to embark on Titanic pub crawl
International and local Titanic experts are gathering in Southampton this week to relive the final moments before the great ship left harbour on its maiden and only voyage. As many of the conference...
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Cash now not next year, say lecturers
Five per cent pay rises are on the cards for lecturers in 2001-02 thanks to the extra Pounds 50 million earmarked for pay in the chancellor's Pounds 100 million spending review. But lecturing unions...
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Boost to sector is welcomed
Further education leaders were "delighted" that colleges will get an extra Pounds 50 million in 2001-02 to tackle their staff pay crisis. The Department for Education and Employment said the...
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Scotland Pounds 3.4 billion boost
Scotland has won a Pounds 3.4 billion boost for the next three years, hailed by Scotland's finance minister Jack McConnell as the highest ever level of spending on services north of the border. The...
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Science gets Pounds 500 million recognition
Science is Pounds 500 million richer after chancellor Gordon Brown declared it was central to the economic future of the United Kingdom during his announcement of the government's comprehensive...
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Elite told to scrap interview process
Elite universities should scrap the interview process in favour of A-level results if they want to increase the number of successful applications from state schools, the Commons education select...
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Surprise standing ovation for Cubie
Financial problsm may be contributing to a drop in applications this year Andrew Cubie received a rare accolade this week. No one could remember the last time a guest at a National Union of Students...
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Nicol Stephen at National Union of Students Scotland forum
Meanwhile, Nicol Stephen, Scotland's deputy minister for enterprise and lifelong learning faced the massed ranks of Scottish student officers, writes Olga Wojtas. In a ground-breaking display of...