Warwick embroiled in contracts rumpus
LECTURERS on fixed-term contracts of a year or more, which include waivers of employment rights, still cannot claim compensation if the contract is renewed, a recent tribunal has ruled. The case has...
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Knowledge pursuit seeks Pounds 2.5m
A LONG-TERM investigation into how and when people learn needs Pounds 2.5 million. The appeal was launched this week by the Scottish Council for Research in Education, an independent, non-profit-...
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FE shortfall fear
National shortfalls in the provision of some further education courses could jeopardise the Further Education Funding Council's statutory commitment to ensure "sufficient and adequate provision", the...
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CVCP cuts up rough on bill
Vice chancellors have warned the government that they will back moves to torpedo a key clause in the Teaching and Higher Education Bill if their calls for changes to the bill are ignored. The...
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Paisley pattern
We predict that the staff of Belfast's new European Institute of Protestant Studies will have mild reservations about current developments in the Northern Ireland peace process. The institute is...
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A price on their heads
The latest issue of Glasgow University's alumnus magazine, Avenue, which goes to 70,000 alumni worldwide, features an article by Guardian journalist and Glasgow graduate Ewen MacAskill on his 16...
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No 'arm in it, m'lud
Going out on a limb is artist Anthony-Noel Kelly (see Antithesis, passim), due to appear at Southwark Crown Court on Monday where he will plead to charges of stealing body parts. If the talented Mr...
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No brain, no pain
With apologies for lateness, the new year tidings from Mongolia. Here Hogmanay is marked by over-indulgence in dumplings and a deadly form of alcohol called kumiss. This time round thecelebrations...
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A place in time
Accolades for the engineers behind the clockwork radio and the anticipated clockwork energy revolution are popping up like, well, clockwork. First, inventor Trevor Baylis was honoured with an...
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Alien concept
As the Association of University Teachers holds out for Independence Day for all lecturers in higher education, rival Natfhe members want the force to stay with them. But in boldly going for a...
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Yellow card
Southampton football premier league striker Egil Ostenstad may have a score to settle with Southampton University vice chancellor Howard Newby. Arriving on campus to open a students' jobshop, he was...
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Food aid 'misdirected'
Huw Richards reports on the British International Studies Association. Governments are neglecting one of the most effective means of combating starvation in the way they fund United Nations agencies...
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IRA could swap its bombs for bytes
Huw Richards reports on the British International Studies Association. The information revolution is a rare example of technical change that will tip the terms of civil conflict away from the state...
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Heads will roll
This week's alumnus to be proud of (number 154 in the series) is the second person after Oliver Cromwell to find out that removing the monarch's head can lead to controversy. Justin Mortimer, , has...
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Court battle to save 100 jobs
Portsmouth University is threatening to take the National Health Service to court over the loss of a teaching contract, jeopardising 100 jobs. In November The THES reported a decision by the NHS...