Storm hits Swansea boss
The future of Gerald Stockdale as principal of Swansea Institute of 糖心Vlog is in doubt this week following the resignation of two prominent governors. The resignations come in the wake of a...
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Academic medics plea for wage parity
University employers have appealed to the prime minister to intervene to safeguard the pay of clinical academics. Philip Love, chairman of the Universities and Colleges Employers Association and of...
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Who guards the coffers?
Last Friday was the deadline for English universities to file financial forecasts with the funding council. Not all met the deadline. With a cash crisis looming, THES reporters look at the sums and...
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Report attacks Queen's
Queen's University, Belfast has been accused of settling some fair employment cases out of court, without admitting liability, to safeguard its image, writes Noel Mcadam. In addition to the charge of...
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India tries to prevent invasion of campuses
Foreign universities seeking students in India will have to put up with tougher entry rules, the University Grants Commission has announced. It is preparing a set of guidelines to ensure that only "...
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How to misread feeling bad or good
I am sure there is more to Peter Robinson's study of job insecurity than is reported in your article ("Feel-bad folly", THES, June 21) but the fact that people moved between jobs almost as much in...
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England funding blueprint
A funding system which aims to even out cash imbalances in English higher education was unveiled this week. More support for universities and colleges offering specialist provision, and those...
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Top-up fees probe at LSE
Last Friday was the deadline for English universities to file financial forecasts with the funding council. Not all met the deadline. With a cash crisis looming, THES reporters look at the sums and...
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French archives set for shake up
The French school of contemporary history is in danger of falling behind those of other countries if major disparities over researchers' access to national archives continue. The warning comes in a...
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Look for infertility evidence in the field
Gillian Bentley asks where is the evidence that environmental pollutants are causing human infertility? (THES, June 14). The comparisons she herself supplies constitute such evidence. If xeno-...
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Polar bores miss multimedia point
Last month a BBC2 series on Public Property featured the building of the learning resources centre at Thames Valley University's Slough campus. Designed by Sir Richard Rogers, the building is both a...
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Ward hails forum sweep
The Colleges Employers Forum has won a clean sweep in the election of the board of the new unified employers' association, it was revealed this week. CEF members or activists secured all 12 of the...
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Fab four
Glasgow, Dundee, Edinburgh and Stirling universities will share Pounds 128,000 extra funding following "excellent" ratings in the Scottish 糖心Vlog Funding Council's latest quality assessment...
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Called to account
Last Friday was the deadline for English universities to file financial forecasts with the funding council. Not all met the deadline. With a cash crisis looming, THES reporters look at the sums and...
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Sweet success
Alumnus to be proud of No: 56 is Alan Sugar, busy divesting himself of the somewhat depreciated stock of his eponymous company (A. M. S. TRADing) at the same time as enjoying unintended national hero...