£25m for language centres
Five centres launched this week will boost the numbers of researchers in languages and area studies. The aim of the £25 million language-based area studies initiative is to produce more academics who...
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Their generation
36 years after The Who recorded their seminal album Live at Leeds the band will take the stage at Leeds University's Refectory on June 17. The idea to kick off the 2006 return came from Andy Kershaw...
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Post-92s more gay friendly
Older universities should copy their newer counterparts when it comes to stamping out homophobia, a conference has heard. Gay and lesbian academics are more likely to feel accepted at post-92...
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Party frocks
Graduate Fashion Week celebrated its 15th anniversary at Battersea Park Arena, London, this week. Douglas Maclennan, director for international development at Northumbria University's design school,...
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Brown urges rise in spend on sector
Chancellor hints at higher top-ups to boost coffers, says Olga Wojtas The UK must spend more on higher education, Chancellor Gordon Brown said this week, hinting that a rise in top-up fees might...
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Unions gear up to sell deal to staff
Union bosses have a battle on their hands to sell this week's 13.1 per cent pay deal to members amid early indications that the agreement made with employers fell short of rank-and-file expectations...
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Bitter dispute that split colleagues
The impact on students was a key stumbling block, writes Chloe Stothart Bob Lawson-Peebles, a senior lecturer at the School of English at Exeter University, resigned from the Association of...
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Hunt blames rigid talks for prolonging pay agony
As the dispute ends, the joint leader of the new UCU calls for shake-up of the national negotiating system for academic salaries. Phil Baty reports Sally Hunt, the joint head of the new University...
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Leeds strike threat over job grading
Staff at Leeds University this week threatened to strike amid accusations that 100 administrators were informed "without warning" that their jobs had been downgraded. The Leeds branch of the new...
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Journal tightens its controls
The publication that ran controversial findings of a drug-trial study has acknowledged concerns about the results and is changing its review procedures, writes Phil Baty A leading medical journal has...
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Wellcome to open founder's museum
The Wellcome Trust will be able to display its founder's vast collection of medical artefacts for the first time next summer, writes Anthea Lipsett. A new £30 million six-storey venue near London's...
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It takes a bond to build a village
Sheffield University has secured a distinctive deal with the private sector to build and manage a student village that could offer a future model for other institutions seeking to replace ageing...
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Leaked survey slates leaders
Sheffield Hallam staff have little faith in top managers, writes Phil Baty Staff at Sheffield Hallam University have delivered a damning indictment of senior managers in an internal satisfaction...
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Call for SA to scrap poor journals
South Africa has too many low-quality academic journals, a report from the Academy of Science of South Africa claims. It recommends their numbers be reduced from about 220 to between 30 and 50. The...
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Parents pay for budget deficit
US students are paying the price for a government budget deficit fuelled by the Iraq War, natural disasters and tax cuts. Interest rates on student loans will rise from 5.3 per cent to 7.14 per cent...