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LAHORE UNIVERSITY SIX: CHARGES DROPPED Charges against four Pakistani professors and two students accused of chalking graffiti on a wall have been dropped. The six from Lahore University of...
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Holocaust tale that's also story of coming back to life
Jean-Marc Dreyfus lecturer, Holocaust Studies, Manchester University. When two young men met in Auschwitz, they did not know they would survive the horrors of the Nazi concentration camp and begin a...
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Number of top earners doubles
A quarter of male academics - but just 9 per cent of women - are paid more than £50K. Melanie Newman reports.The number of academic staff earning more than £50,000 a year has doubled in five years,...
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Payout for lecturer fired over visa delay
Southampton University is facing a large compensation bill for dismissing an overseas academic whose leave to remain in the UK had expired. An Employment Appeals Tribunal ruling published last week...
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Spectre of strike at Keele
Keele University is facing strike action from the University and College Union after it announced that 38 academics are at risk of redundancy, writes Melanie Newman. A university consultation...
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UCU to ballot on pay negotiation plans
Union members to vote on structural reforms and ban on industrial action during pay talks to preserve national bargaining. Melanie Newman reports. The future of national pay bargaining was cast under...
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Building on the past, looking to the future
Fiona Hyslop, Scottish Education Secretary, on long-term aims for a higher education task force. Our Scottish universities have a long and proud tradition, with four of Britain's oldest universities...
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Travel without a hidden agenda
The US wants more Americans to study abroad, but doing so for security reasons will only reinforce barriers, says Peter Brady. "To protect our borders and defend our interest abroad" would seem like...
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Olympian opportunities to be involved in the Games
From Bristol University's plans to host the Kenyan athletics team to institutions of England's north-east tackling social exclusion through sport, the whole UK higher education sector is on track to...
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Shortfall translates to reduced grants
The Science and Technology Facilities Council has confirmed that it is planning to cut grant funding available to university researchers by at least 25 per cent to balance its books after its budget...
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Young researchers favour work in UK
Winners of ERC grants choose British institutions to undertake blue- skies research. Zoe Corbyn reports. The UK is the prime location for the crème de la crème of Europe's early-career researchers to...
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Former higher education tsar takes over as new chairman of the Arts and Humanities Research Council
The Government's former director-general for higher education has been made chairman of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Sir Alan Wilson, professor of urban and regional systems at...
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Theologians resist second degree cuts
It may be time for the Government to start praying for divine intervention. As opposition mounts to the decision to scrap state funding for students taking second degrees at an equivalent or lower...
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DIUS gears funding for knowledge transfer
A welcome redistribution of wealth from rich to poorer universities, or a hindrance to excellence - new funding arrangements for so-called third stream activities have split opinion. Bill Rammell,...
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Campuses suffer leadership and information deficits
The Society for Research into Higher Education conference looked at reluctance to lead and opaque aid schemes. John Gill reports. MANAGEMENT ROLES SHUNNED Academics are avoiding managerial positions...