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UCU survey shows extent of zero-hours contracts
Union surveys academy’s employment of casualised contracts. John Morgan reports
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UEL’s annus horribilis continues as overseas exams venture is scrapped
The University of East London faces a £600,000 loss from the collapse of an overseas examinations venture, the latest in a series of blows to the institution.University of East London Global...
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News in brief
ߣߣƵTop whack for top dogsSome ߣߣƵn university heads are paid 10 times as much as senior lecturers, institutions’ annual accounts for 2012 have shown. The average remuneration package of...
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Campus round-up - 5 September 2013
Underground artThis subterranean art installation, housed in a Victorian ice well beneath the London Canal Museum, was inspired by particle physics. Commissioned by the Institute of Physics,...
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Odds and quads - 5 September 2013
The Royal College of Science was one of three institutions that merged in 1907 to form Imperial College London. In 1955, it set up its own Motor Club to maintain a fire engine known as Jezebel as a ...
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News in brief - 5 September 2013
Visa applicationsOverseas students not deterredVisa applications from overseas students seeking to study at UK universities are up 4 per cent, according to the latest migration figures from the...
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News in brief - 5 September 2013
ߣߣƵTop whack for top dogsSome ߣߣƵn university heads are paid 10 times as much as senior lecturers, institutions’ annual accounts for 2012 have shown. The average remuneration package of...
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Grant winners - 5 September 2013
National Institute for Health ResearchHealth Services and Delivery Research programmeAward winner: Sarah ByfordInstitution: King’s College LondonValue: £675,578The cost and cost-effectiveness of...
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George Watson, 1927-2013
A maverick English don who often contributed to ߣߣƵ has died
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Appointments - 5 September 2013
Royal College of ArtJordan Baseman“If you had told me when I was 22 and graduating from art school that I would spend almost my entire adult life working in art schools I wouldn’t have believed you...
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THE Scholarly Web - 5 September 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Satire is dead
A concern when reading Jamie Targett’s latest communication on performance management in The Poppletonian (29 August): I had previously thought there was a satirical element to this column. I now...
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Keynesian scale
It is erroneous of Kitty Stewart to declare that J. M. Keynes’ famous quote “In the long run we are all dead” had anything to do with the idea that economies left alone recover from recession on...