CIHE okays fees, CBI says no
Staff still unhappy about pay, students alarmed at the prospect of fees and vice chancellors squeezed in the middle. Funding pressure built up as v-cs gathered in London this week to discuss the...
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You must wait for Dearing, NUS tells v-cs
Staff still unhappy about pay, students alarmed at the prospect of fees and vice chancellors squeezed in the middle. Funding pressure built up as v-cs gathered in London this week to discuss the...
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Fees split Russell 17
Staff still unhappy about pay, students alarmed at the prospect of fees and vice chancellors squeezed in the middle. Funding pressure built up as v-cs gathered in London this week to discuss the...
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Pay in the sky
A wrangle between the Treasury and the Department of Trade and Industry over who should meet the cost of privatising the Royal Observatories has delayed the initiative. The Particle Physics and...
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Shell not out
The Royal Geographical Society has voted overwhelmingly to retain Shell International as a corporate sponsor, following an academic-driven move to sever links with the company. There were fears about...
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Greenwich may strike
Lecturers' union Natfhe is to ballot members on industrial action at the University of Greenwich over management proposals to axe 20 jobs. Natfhe branch spokesman Les Garner said that a ballot could...
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Dundee downer
Dundee University's senate was this week set to consider a proposal to axe undergraduate teaching in education. Students have already protested at plans to withdraw the department of educational...
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Foresight cash
More than Pounds 50 million of advanced equipment is to be provided for universities and colleges through a partnership between funding councils, research councils and Government departments. The...
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Target horrifies teacher trainers
Staff still unhappy about pay, students alarmed at the prospect of fees and vice chancellors squeezed in the middle. Funding pressure built up at v-cs gathered in London this week to discuss the...
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Ground rules
As the common longing for a firm moral bedrock intensifies, will Andrea Dworkin's black-and-white brand of political feminism be revived? Jennifer Wallace finds her in optimistic mood. Gascoigne...
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A yoke that's wearing thin
The link may go back a long way but Britain protests too much about its 'special relationship' with the United States, says Kathleen Burk. Anglo-American relations have attracted an incrustation of...
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Please disrupt our conference
The disruption of a conference on East Timor by an organised mob in Kuala Lumpur last month may have done the troubled country a favour. Peter Carey reports. Fifteen years ago, when I first became...
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Stand by your texts
As Valentine Cunningham stands shivering in the harsh winds blowing through academia, what exactly fires his resolve to stick to his calling? When thousands of higher education teachers take to the...
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The shock will hit the new
Universities and colleges are shedding their staff by force and cajolery. THES reporters examine the options. An estimated 3,000 jobs have been lost in universities this year, writes Alan Thomson....
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Case study
Universities and colleges are shedding their staff by force and cajolery. THES reporters examine the options. Sheffield College has lost about 100 teaching and 50 support staff out of 2,000, with the...