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From: The Office of the President (formerly Vice-Chancellor) To: All members of academic staff Subject: Industrial action As you will no doubt recall, I wrote last week to point out that this...
The issues behind the proposed cuts at Sussex University, as they affect the sciences, are explored elsewhere in this edition. The plans have revived concerns about national provision of chemistry in...
Today's announcement of grants totalling £7.5 million to help universities and colleges develop their fundraising activities is welcome as far as it goes... but that is not very far. The scheme may...
As a black member of academic staff I believe that Frank Ellis should not lose his job but someone at Leeds University should seek to improve the quality of the research he engages in ('"I won't be...
It is a week since the lecturer Frank Ellis was thrust into notoriety for expounding his views that black people are genetically less intelligent than their white counterparts. There has been, to my...
The most effective way to repudiate Frank Ellis's crudely positivistic claims about intelligence and race is relentlessly to expose their Eurocentrically ideological nature. In adopting any...
In response to your story "25% wage hike for v-cs" (March 10), the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association argues that this increase is below average for chief executives in the public and...
As one of the 23 staff who won an unfair dismissal case against the management of London Metropolitan University ("London Met staff win contract fight", March 10), I was staggered to read your report...
Philip Parkin shows considerable naivety if he believes that constant negotiation that is not backed by the threat of strikes will achieve better pay and conditions (Letters, March 10). The employers...
Philip Cowley appears to have undergone a conversion to 19th-century industrial relations over the past two years (March 10). In 2004, he tells us, he took action short of a strike and considers it...