Natfhe poised to take action over proposed jobs cuts
Redundancies planned at Northumbria and London South Bank universities have prompted staff protests and threats of industrial action on top of disruption arising from the pay dispute. Some 650...
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Dispute dispatches
* Institute of Education: staff report module assessments not being marked. An exam board has been cancelled because marking had not been completed and staff were not planning to attend. Helpdesks in...
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Dads' army stands by to beat exam boycott
Universities deny that drafting in retired staff to mark papers will be detrimental to quality. Alan Thomson reports Universities may seek to mobilise a "dads' army" of retired academics as part of...
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Bosses aid recruiting, say gleeful unions
Whatever else it may achieve, the pay dispute will have worked wonders for union recruitment, writes Alan Thomson. Both the Association of University Teachers and lecturers' union Natfhe have...
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Paws for thought
Lecturers' unions lobbied this week's pay negotiating meeting from which they had been barred because they refused to suspend their industrial action. The unions used a fat cat to draw attention to...
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'Derisory' 6% offer on table
Lecturers' unions this week rejected as "derisory" a pay offer of 6 per cent over two years, telling employers the dispute would continue until they come up with a credible deal. The Association of...
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'Overhaul engineering'
A third of UK engineering firms believe that graduates' skills deficiencies are costing them money, according to research by the Royal Academy of Engineering and Henley Management College. A report...
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London appoints Smith
Adrian Smith, principal of Queen Mary, University of London, has been appointed deputy vice-chancellor of the University of London. He will take up the part-time post in July for three years. He will...
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Welsh chorus
Welsh universities have created a lobby group to strengthen their voice in the European Union. The Welsh Higher Education Brussels will participate in debates on the Bologna Process and the Lisbon...
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Correction
The figures for the number of high-earning staff at Newcastle University, included in a table accompanying the article "Boom time for high-flyers" (March 17), inadvertently counted clinical staff...
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Incoming president vows to unite NUS
Jessica Shepherd reports from the NUS conference on the election for the top job and the winner's manifesto Independent candidate Gemma Tumelty clinched a narrow victory this week in the election for...
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Fear for funds if foreign intake falls
A downturn in the volatile international student recruitment market is more likely to plunge institutions into the red than a bad result in the research assessment exercise, a report warns....
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£6m drive will focus on alliances
The Government has outlined how it plans to spend £6 million a year on the next Prime Minister's Initiative to attract more overseas students to the UK, writes Tony Tysome. At a conference on...
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Sussex urged to reopen its race row case
A professor who stated that there is 'nothing wrong with racism' could be reinvestigated. Claire Sanders reports Leeds University's decision to begin disciplinary proceedings against Frank Ellis...
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Model student support schemes deserve a star turn
Outstanding Student Financial Support Package Universities offer prospective students a bewildering range of bursaries and scholarships to help pay for tuition fees and living costs, writes Tony...