Market forces dictate wages
Vice-chancellors are using pay reforms as an opportunity to introduce stark variations in salaries. Phil Baty reports The market is starting to shape the pay and career opportunities of academic...
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Ucas glitch sparks chaos
Thousands of students were forced to wait up to an extra week to discover whether they had a university place this year because of failings in the admissions process. Admissions staff described this...
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E-tutor's pick and mix prize
Allowing students to take a pick-and-mix approach to assignments won Brunel University genetics lecturer Henry Keil this year's E-Tutor of the Year award and £1,000. "I'm absolutely stunned," he said...
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Six 'at risk' of financial failure, reports Hefce
Six higher education institutions have been identified as being "at risk" of financial failure, according to a report from funding chiefs, writes Phil Baty. The annual report from the Higher...
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Rejected claim highlights trials of casual staff
Investigation rules that part-time lecturer was not harassed, just the victim of college-wide practices, reports Phil Baty A failed personal harassment claim has uncovered more general concerns about...
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Resident researchers take passion into classroom
Two hundred young researchers will shortly go into schools to enthuse youngsters about subjects ranging from engineering and law to history and earth sciences. This new phase of the Researchers in...
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Masters market hots up
The LSE is charging over £8K for postgraduate courses - nearly three times more than other universities, a survey finds. Letitia Hughes reports A market in postgraduate fees for British...
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Lifting of fees cap may lead to bankruptcy
Universities could go bankrupt if the Government removes the cap on tuition fees - because they have little idea how much their degrees are worth or how much they cost to teach. This could mean that...
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League tables aid pupil choice
University applicants do pay attention to university guides, preliminary findings of a pilot study on the career paths of students have found. Kate Purcell of Warwick University's Institute for...
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E-assessment exercise
Pilot software for submitting research to the 2008 research assessment exercise was launched this week. This is the first time all submissions will be made electronically and institutions have until...
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Where are they now?
The ÌÇÐÄVlog Statistics Agency is to retrospectively review the careers of 65,000 graduates three and a half years after they left higher education. Results from the study, conducted by the...
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Degree of success
Welsh graduates earn some 46 per cent more than workers with A levels, and more are in graduate jobs than the UK average, a new report from the Institute of Employment Studies reveals. In 2003-04,...
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Student cash gift call
Universities told to ask for donations on top of fees to pay for campus projects. Claire Sanders reports Universities should ask students for voluntary financial donations on top of tuition fees, a...
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Take control of a flight into the future
In the second of our series on popular courses, Jessica Shepherd climbs aboard a simulator to discover why aerospace engineering is on the up The bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2000 marked an end...