Part-time staff face dismissal and re-employment
More than 100,000 part-time lecturers could be pushed into "bogus" self employment as universities and colleges exploit a loophole to avoid new legislation on part-time workers' rights, lecturers'...
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Union refuses 'mean-minded' pay offer
The Association of University Teachers rejected a proposed pay increase this week of 2.5 per cent as "inadequate" and "meanminded". The union, which represents academic and related staff in the old...
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'Excellent' grades questioned
Huge variations in teaching quality between different subject areas are revealed in an analysis by The THES. The proportion of departments gaining "excellent" ratings varies from zero in some subject...
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London colleges leave Oxbridge behind in research income stakes
Oxbridge lags behind Imperial College, London, and University College London in the race for private research contracts, league tables compiled by The THES show. This year's tables include exclusive...
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Group wins grant to encourage disabled
A research partnership devised to reduce the barriers facing disabled university applicants, has received a Pounds 50,000 development grant from the Further Education Funding Council. The group of 11...
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Swansea professor rapped for behaviour
A philosophy professor has been charged with sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour by Swansea University. Laurence Goldstein stood down as head of the philosophy department earlier this year...
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Unions and employers broker deal on monitoring of equality
Universities will come under pressure to increase data collection and monitoring after an agreement between campus employers and unions this week on equal opportunities. The draft report, drawn up...
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Tax or top-up fees are the only realistic options, MPs told
Universities may be forced to charge higher tuition fees in the absence of more public cash, a vice-chancellor told MPs. Roderick Floud, vice-chancellor of London Guildhall University, told the...
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Current sources of research funding
This section lists funds available for researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk. BRITISH COUNCIL, FRANCE. www.britishcouncil.org/france/english/science/alliance.htm...
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Doubt cast on intellectual benefits of 'amorous encounters'
Tony Tysome reports on the Mozart effect and how music influences our moods and intelligence. Music may be the food of love, but the reasons why continue to elude scientists. A conference at the...
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Stay-home students lead the drop-outs
Full-time students who live at home and attend a local university are more likely to drop out than those who move away, say researchers at the universities of Cardiff and Lancaster. Bob McNabb of...
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Government concern over university drop-out rates
Government concern over university drop-out rates is highlighted by a study commissioned by the education department, writes Alan Thomson. The study, Student Non-completion in Higher Education, will...
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Luxury tower is scaled down for locals
Plans to turn a Sheffield brown-field site into a multi-million pound housing development for more than 1,000 students and private residents have been scaled down after locals complained the building...
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Staffordshire quality systems fail to satisfy quality watchdogs
Staffordshire University cannot be fully confident about the education provided in its name under overseas partnerships, quality watchdogs have warned in a report published this week. A Quality...
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Big-name merger looks set for Brum
There are few cities in Britain where the realities of today's economic forces are more starkly demonstrated than Birmingham. England's "second city" is in a state of rapid change and, for once,...