Mystery callers will shop staff
Universities are using consultants posing as would-be students to test the 'customer care' skills of academics. Phil Baty reports Groups of fake students and their parents are being unleashed on...
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Tributes paid to 'formidable' Plymouth v-c killed in freak accident
Tributes were paid this week to Roland Levinsky, vice-chancellor of Plymouth University, who was killed by a falling power cable on New Year's Day. Professor Levinsky, 63, was walking his dog in a...
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When I'm 65 Will anti-age discrimination laws encourage employees to work beyond traditional retirement age? We ask those approaching decision time
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Bradford link stirred PM to press Shah to free academic detainee
Huw Richards learns of Wilson's part in the return of a student to UK When Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced his retirement in March 1976, he promised not to "accept the headship or any other...
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New Year Honours
Peter Scott, a former editor of The Times Higher , was among a strong list of figures from higher education honoured by the Queen this new year. The vice-chancellor of Kingston University was...
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Wilson irked by students on dole
In 1976, Britain suffered the worst drought in living memory. The Government was forced to go cap in hand to seek a huge loan from the International Monetary Fund and Harold Wilson shocked the nation...
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Ucea pay review could put end to national talks
Employers prepare to discuss consortia model of negotiations as UCU reiterates its commitment to UK-wide bargaining. Claire Sanders reports Vice-chancellors could band together to negotiate the...
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Westminster's new v-c
Westminster University has confirmed that it has appointed Geoffrey Petts its new vice-chancellor. Professor Petts, 53, is pro vice-chancellor at Birmingham University and a leading environmental...
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BMA fees cap plea
The British Medical Association says the Government must not lift the cap on student fees, in its submission to the Education Select Committee's review of higher education sustainability. "Student...
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Bone up on X-rays
Researchers in Manchester University's School of Dentistry have created a unique way of identifying osteoporosis sufferers from ordinary dental X-rays. The new technique involves measuring the...
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Mobile medical skills
A "skills bus" to help medical students on work placements to practise basic skills such as taking blood and inserting catheters when they are away from the university has been launched by City...
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Revamp of concordat
The research councils and Universities UK are to publish draft proposals for a revamped concordat and code of practice for research staff in universities at the end of this month. The concordat has...
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Correction
The North East England History Institute, which is responsible for bringing together historians from all five of the north-eastern universities, is based at Bolbec Hall in Newcastle and not Teesside...
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'What's wrong with jazzing it up a little bit?'
Academic eyebrows were raised when forensic psychologist Kathy Charles appeared in The Scottish Sun commenting on a series of notorious unsolved crimes. In typical Sun style, she was compared to the...
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Union attacks Newport haste to make redundancies
A redundancy hitlist drafted by the University of Wales, Newport, was part of a "dubious" job-cutting process adopted by managers keen to rush through course closures, union leaders said this week....