'I reach for the stars but I'm no superwoman'
When Sally Hunt was elected general secretary of the Association of University Teachers in 2002, she became the second woman to head the union since it was founded in 1919. She was also, at 37, one...
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Fillip for joint work on pay
The task of modernising pay in higher education has been given a boost with the announcement that trade unions and employers are to be funded to work in partnership, writes Claire Sanders. The Higher...
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Conan the librarian faces race challenge
When Conan Henry, a librarian at London Metropolitan University, wrote an email describing his employer as a racist "Loony-versity", he could not have predicted the chain of events it would unleash....
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NUS: deliver or lose our vote
Student leaders set out their general election stall this week with an appeal to ministers, academics and opposition parties not to see them simply as "fee fighters". The National Union of Students...
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Hunt for missing student
Police have asked the academic community for help in tracing a mature student who has been missing since November. Details relating to Amitabho Das are limited, but police know he is missing from the...
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Cambridge vows to end dearth of northern undergraduate applicants
A North-South divide in applications for undergraduate places at Cambridge was revealed this week as the university published details of its admissions in 2004. The university's figures showed that,...
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Recruiting body in crisis
ߣߣÊÓƵ's main foreign-student recruiting company, already in financial turmoil, has been hit by the resignations of its chief executive and the chairman of its governing board and the loss of a...
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US slack as Swiss profit
A rise in the number of foreign students enrolling at Swiss universities could in part be due to tightened visa restrictions in the US. Seventeen per cent of the student body in Switzerland is made...
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RAE policy gets rethink
New Zealand's universities have won a battle to prevent state-sanctioned comparisons of research quality with the UK. A report says the level of hostility from universities towards institutional...
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Landless learn to fight ignorance and bankers
Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement (MST) has opened a university in São Paulo state to train its members. The Escola Nacional Florestan Fernandes, in Guararema, offers classes up to tertiary level...
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Stockholm science student charged over very bad coffee
A Stockholm University student has been charged over a spate of attacks on university premises and personnel over the past year. The 25-year-old man is suspected of poisoning coffee in a vending...
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Summers storm still raging at Harvard
The uproar following Harvard University's president Lawrence Summers' comment at an academic conference that "issues of intrinsic aptitude" may account for the fact that fewer women than men succeed...
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Probe into finances
Suspect investment deals and financial mismanagement at a Czech university that have cost nearly £1 million are under investigation after a spate of complaints about halls of residence and a faculty...
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Far-right professor excluded
Bruno Gollnisch, second in command of France's extreme-right Front National, has been suspended again from the University of Jean Moulin Lyon-3, writes Jane Marshall in Paris. Professor Gollnisch had...
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Did A-level reforms fall victim to election fever?
David Melville, a member of the Tomlinson Group, mourns a lost opportunity for radical change The Government's long-awaited White Paper on the comprehensive package of reforms proposed by Mike...