Libraries face VAT on digital journals
Subscribers to electronic academic journals are facing hefty price increases this autumn as publishers add VAT to their rates. Fred Friend, director of scholarly communication at University College...
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HE 'overfishing' a small pool
Further education funding chiefs this week called on the government to stop ploughing money into universities and expanding undergraduate numbers at the expense of colleges. Learning and Skills...
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Plymouth forges link with Eden
An agreement between Plymouth University and the Eden Project in Cornwall will bring the world's flora within easy reach of plant scientists and students. Representatives of the two organisations...
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Fashion is for wimps ... and for divorcees
The failure of one in three marriages may be a bleak statistic, but it appears to be very good news for men's fashion shops. Researchers at Glasgow Caledonian University's Business School,...
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HSE called in over 'bullying' and stress
The Health and Safety Executive is investigating high levels of stress-related illness among staff at Wolverhampton University. Leaders of Natfhe, the lecturers' union, and Unison, the union for...
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News in brief
Middlesex students demand fees back A group of university students is demanding their fees back after their course was cancelled before they had completed their degrees. The 11 religious studies...
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Union requests visitor for Notts allegation
The visitor has been called in to Nottingham University to investigate allegations of staff bullying, as union leaders launch a university-wide probe into the problem, writes Tony Tysome. An academic...
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Sanger maps out profitable vocation
The electronic scroll display behind the reception desk at the Sanger Institute near Cambridge still flashes up 60 million DNA bases a day. But with the map of the human genome all but complete, the...
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UEL weighs up recovery plans
The University of East London may shut two of its three campuses as part of a recovery plan ordered by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. A radical estates strategy could see the...
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Leeds pulls funds out of tobacco
Leeds University is selling its tobacco company shares, it announced this week. The decision follows a lengthy campaign by students unhappy about the institution's practice of investing more than £1...
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Low morale hits colleges
There are "disturbingly low levels of morale" among lecturers, support staff and managers in further education colleges, a national survey has found. More than half of staff feel undervalued and two-...
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Skilled graduates fail to fill shortages
Less than half of graduates qualified to work in some industries with skills shortages actually do so, according to research carried out for Universities Scotland. The research was prompted by...
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Whistleblowers: Bilston chaos continues
The recent publication of Bilston Community College's final accounts has left many unanswered questions about the former Further Education Funding Council's handling of the college's closure and its...
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Analysis: Red tape is throttling talent
It is an uphill struggle for academic refugees in the UK, Claire Sanders reports Home secretary David Blunkett's announcement of a new system for dealing with asylum-seekers was awaited with some...
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Cara - the name that means new beginnings
Cara, formerly the Academic Assistance Society, was set up in 1933 by academics and politicians, including John Maynard Keynes and William Beveridge. Academics from the London School of Economics...