Acas talks
Lecturers' union Natfhe will today debate joining talks at Acas aimed at solving the long-running further education contracts dispute. The move follows fresh proposals from Colleges Employers Forum...
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Weight watchers
Trade unions in the old universities launched a campaign this week to overturn a freeze on the 1993 London weighting allowance imposed by vice chancellors. The unions say that backdating the payments...
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Croydon coup
Croydon College is set formally to become a college of the University of Sussex with the signing of a partnership agreement next month. Sussex will validate Croyden's higher education degrees and...
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Campus boost to local wealth proven
The nine universities in Yorkshire and Humberside are among the region's biggest employers, creating 24,000 jobs and spending Pounds 417 million on wages, according to a new survey by locally-based...
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Schools await SuperJANET offer
Anyone who can see a profitable way of connecting rural schools to the information superhighway should tell the Government by July 7. On Monday Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education,...
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Colleges campaign
Pressure for a unified post-16 education funding system has emerged from a wide-ranging consultation on the future nature of higher education delivered at further education colleges. Fears of a new...
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Hull loses four top managers
Four senior administrators are to leave the University of Hull within the next few months, writes Claire Sanders. The resignations of Kevin O'Hara, finance director, Anthony McClaran, academic...
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Second best degree risk
Universities that have rushed to form partnerships or franchise agreements with other institutions are in danger of awarding "second best" degrees, says the Higher Education Quality Council. Roger...
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Farewell to freelancers
Graduate Education in Britain
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Britain's nationalised industry
The State and Higher Education
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Flights of fancy, descents into hell
A Passion for Wings:
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New tomorrows, stacks of problems
The New University Library - Innovation in Information
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Occident impressed
The Western Canon:
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On a wing and a prayer
The Messiaen Companion
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One class, many peoples
Ethnic Relations and Schooling: - Asian Teachers in British Schools