Unions say 'no' to pay talks
Academic trade unions have rebuffed a move by employers to reopen pay negotiations, refusing to put planned industrial action on hold unless vice-chancellors put a "substantive offer on the table"....
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Threat to suspend death-in-service benefits
Lecturers' unions accused the University College for the Creative Arts this week of trying to "intimidate" lecturers into pulling out of planned strike action, by threatening to suspend their death-...
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Exhibit A: a wealth of 'tartan noir'
Scotland's two-decade domination of the detective novel is being put under the magnifying glass by an international academic journal. Scottish writers such as Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, Christopher...
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Complacent staff could lose foreign enrolments
Academics need more training to help them avoid cultural clashes and misunderstandings with the rising number of overseas students they must teach and supervise, according to international students'...
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'British universities don't respect us - they just want our money'
According to Zhou Zhaofeng, a Chinese student doing a law PhD at Glasgow University, UK institutions do little to overcome cultural barriers. Mr Zhou, who also studied at Bristol and Manchester...
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Lack of records gets London Met in trouble with CRE
London Metropolitan University has broken race relations laws by failing to monitor properly the impact of a performance-related pay scheme on its ethnic minority staff, the Commission for Racial...
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Coca-Cola tries to take fizz out of NUS boycott call
Coca-Cola is battling to head off the threat of losing its £7 million a year contract to supply its drinks to students at 200 universities and colleges in the UK. The National Union of Students will...
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Students today can't write, spell or count
Admissions tutors' report cards for today's undergraduates might well read: "Marks are slipping, must do better." That, at least, is the conclusion of the 250 university admissions staff quizzed as...
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Academic pay outpaced
Average graduate starting salaries are rising quicker than the pay of full-time academics, figures out this week reveal. The going rate for a newly recruited graduate rose to nearly £22,500 on...
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Privy Council lets go
Universities will no longer need to involve the Privy Council on all matters of governance, the Government confirmed this week. The Department for Education and Skills said institutions would no...
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MPs blur the divide
MPs on the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee have said they will no longer scrutinise research councils on an individual basis, but via cross-cutting themes. Knowledge transfer...
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Catch them young
Hull College this week launched an initiative to help 15 to 18-year-olds find out about degree courses in the creative arts. The Creative Partners 4 Progression scheme is supported by two government-...
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'Craftsmanship' is laid low by quick-fix fever
The Government is showing signs of ADHD, flitting from one policy to the next, says Richard Sennett. Mandy Garner asks him why society has become hooked on short-term gain Just after Richard Sennett...
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When the torture becomes humdrum
We have become accustomed to others' suffering in the War on Terror, says Joanna Bourke Ameen Sa'eed Al-Sheikh was arrested on October 7 2003 and taken to the Baghdad Correctional Facility in Abu...
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£250K to wage war on poverty
Economist and Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz is heading Manchester's new poverty institute - on a salary that has raised eyebrows, says Michael North Unlike his fellow academics on the podium, Nobel...