How e-mail blunder made talks redundant
It was bad enough to receive an e-mail warning that they were facing the threat of compulsory redundancy. But further misery was heaped on five academics at Nottingham Trent University when the...
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'The developing world must have a central say on climate change'
Ian Goldin insists that a united international consensus can help tackle burning issues such as climate change It is a good thing that Ian Goldin is an optimist. As the first director of the James...
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On the move...
* John Zarnecki , professor of space science in the Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute at the Open University, has been appointed director of the Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and...
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V-cs snub plan for RAE reform
UUK and research elite criticise Treasury's metrics-based proposals for funding allocation, saying they undermine 2008 exercise. Lee Elliot Major writes. Universities this week delivered a crushing...
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New recruit to ranks faces revolt over 'imposing' local pay deal
Britain's newest university is threatened with a national academic boycott and mass legal action just two weeks after it gained the title. The University and College Union said this week that Edge...
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Shortlists celebrate diversity
More than 90 of the UK's 115 universities have taken part in this year's Times Higher Awards. The shortlisted candidates are revealed today in a special awards supplement, writes Gerard Kelly....
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World rankings Who's up and who's down for 2006? Find out in the latest global university league tables.
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Refugee support fund
UK universities are being invited to bid for funding to help refugee and threatened academics. The first grants in the Pathfinder University Grants Scheme will be allocated later this year....
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ICT for the arts
De Montfort University has launched a website that aims to help postgraduate students and staff in the arts and humanities to develop ICT skills. Details: www.ahds.ac.uk/ictguides
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Linguistic leader
The School of Management and Languages at Heriot-Watt University has won two awards for language provision. The university received the European Award for Languages and a special Adult Education...
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Teaching in tongues
The Higher Education Funding Council for England is investing £4.5 million to promote the take-up of language courses across the country. Universities, schools and colleges will work together in...
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Transfers prove costly
In our story "Transfers prove costly" (September 15) we incorrectly stated that the technology transfer office at Abertay Dundee University failed to cover its costs. In fact, it covers its costs...
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Research damaged as visas withheld
Excluded academics blame state paranoia, writes Phil Baty. Government fear of terrorism and illegal immigration is damaging international academic research, a leading scholar has claimed after five...
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Scholar deplores US ban
Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan has attacked the US Government for being "afraid of ideas" after it denied him a visa despite dropping earlier allegations that he had "endorsed" terrorism, writes Phil...
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Health budget cuts force v-cs to review training provision
Universities are threatening to pull out of nursing education after seeing budgets slashed by millions in one year. Drummond Bone, president of Universities UK, has written to Bill Rammell, the...