Bid to move ocean lab faces rough passage
A Natural Environment Research Council plan to ferry the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory across the Mersey is running into choppy water. The Proudman is due to relocate in September from the...
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Universities face industrial action over pay
Universities could face the most damaging campaign of industrial action in their history this autumn after the Association of University Teachers rejected last week's pay offer and lecturers' union...
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Elite 19 may reject cash bonus
Leading vice-chancellors may ignore government plans to pay £9,000 "golden hellos" to attract lecturers into shortage subjects, scuppering a Labour manifesto commitment. The elite Russell Group of 19...
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Leifert walkout is 'premature'
The academic who resigned from the government's science review panel on genetic modification came under fire from fellow members this week. Carlo Leifert, director of the Tesco Centre of Organic...
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QAA: accreditation 'risky'
The right of hundreds of small and specialist colleges across the world to offer British degrees has been called into question by the Quality Assurance Agency. In an interview with The THES , QAA...
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Rules and regulations will just cramp our style
The white paper and the Bologna process threaten the values and dynamics of UK higher education, argues Maurice Kogan Sometimes I wonder whether ministers and some institutional leaders remember, or...
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Don's diary: Give a don a bone
Friday "Can you collect a skeleton from the cellar of a local house next to a recent murder scene," read the email from our city archaeologist. "Police lost interest when the remains were discovered...
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Dates to keep track of
Who says that the Higher Education Funding Council for England is a dreary place to work? For months, funding council staff have been making their own amusement using the organisation's system of...
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V-c gets a Stella turn in Hello!
It can only be a matter of time before Sir Alan Langlands, principal of Dundee University, shows The Diary round his lovely institution in the company of his charming senior management team. Sir Alan...
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Quantum cats, Fringe science
A group of ecologists and evolutionary biologists from Imperial College London are performing a comical sketch show with science at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year. The Tensile...
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Court case won't derail Corbett
Luton University staff and students have been told that Gerald Corbett, the former chief executive of Railtrack, will not be removed from Luton's board of governors. Mr Corbett is being prosecuted...
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We can't afford this deal's price
Employers' latest pay offer asks staff to sign up to untold changes with few guarantees, says Sally Hunt. The University and Colleges Employers' Association last week described the proposed two-year...
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Your input unwanted
Barry Sheerman says Charles Clarke seems set to ignore any criticism of government policies. Charles Clarke may be surprised at the level of my disappointment with his response to the education and...
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Today's news
Take an arts degree and you could be history A report published today shows that arts and law graduates tend to die younger than those who take science degrees. Medical students were least likely to...
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