Opportunity knocks
(Photograph) - James Badwin has reaped the benefits of the New Deal summer school at Plymouth College - he won a job as a laboratory technician after two years of unemployment. Mr Badwin dropped out...
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NUS aids Irish peace
The National Union of Students has given a Pounds 75,000 boost to the peace process in Northern Ireland to help train local students to support community relations. The student leadership training,...
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Colleges' good report backs expansion bid
Colleges are better than universities at teaching sub-degree higher education courses and are poised to take a big slice of the expansion in higher education, according to further education leaders....
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PGCE student, 53, denied loan
A mature student has accused the Student Loans Company of ageism after being refused a loan for a postgraduate course aimed at boosting her job prospects. Patricia Husband, a former care worker, has...
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Lecturer takes Edinburgh to jobs tribunal
A former lecturer in social anthropology at Edinburgh Universityhas claimed he was isolated and slandered by colleagues in a campaign of harassment that ultimately destroyed his career. Alan Campbell...
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Tables 'will make recruitment of teachers harder'
Universities have attacked the government's plans to publish the first performance tables of teacher training institutions next week. Vice-chancellors and heads of education departments fear that the...
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Natfhe condemn fixed-term contracts
Paul Mackney, general secretary of Natfhe, has condemned the "daylight robbery" of thousands of lecturers and researchers on fixed-term contracts. He said the government's Fairness at Work white...
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AUT slams work hours law for excluding academics
The Association of University Teachers has hit out at new government regulations for failing to protect academics from excessive workloads. The working time directive, which will come into force on...
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De Montfort to scrap 54 jobs
De Montfort University is locked in a battle with lecturers' unions over plans to axe more than 50 academic posts. The proposed redundancies are the result of restructuring and efforts to meet...
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Queen's threatened with judicial review as redundancy row escalates
The Association of University Teachers has threatened Queen's University Belfast with a judicial review as the bitter row over lecturer redundancies deepens. The warning came as AUT leaders met Queen...
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Autumn facelift for tatty laboratories
Universities are eagerly eyeing the Pounds 600 million joint infrastructure fund for refurbishing decaying laboratories and replacing obsolete equipment. The fund was announced in July as part of the...
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Probe into what puts women off research
A consortium of funders, including all the research councils, the Wellcome Trust and Royal Society, is to instigate an independent survey to investigate why women do not apply for grants in the same...
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Japanese flock to UK for science
The United Kingdom has emerged as the most popular destination in Europe for visiting Japanese scientists and engineers, according to a study highlighting the strength of research links between the...
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Astronomers reach for the stars - as distant learners
Engineers and technicians on Merseyside are among the first students to enrol on a new astronomy course offered by Liverpool John Moores University. By day, the staff build a robotic telescope for...
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Black out
(Photograph) - John Parkinson, director of science and mathematics at Sheffield Hallam University, a member of the UK eclipse co-ordinating group, has been touring Plymouth and Penzance in...