Brussels, 20 July 2006 The Commission seeks your your views and suggestions to help prepare and improve the 2007 work programme for the new Intelligent Energy - Europe II programme Online...
Brussels, 20th July 2006 The European Commission has authorised, under the EC Treaty’s rules on state aid (Article 87), €67 million (£47 million) of public funding for a...
Brussels, 20 July 2006 The Competitiveness Council will meet in extraordinary session on 24 July 2006 in Brussels, under the Chairmanship of Mauri Pekkarinen, Finnish minister for Trade and Industry...
Pupils underestimate level of graduate debt, survey finds The average sixthformer expects to leave university with debts of just over £6,000 - less than half the average amount graduates actually owe...
Two fifths of academics fail to take proper leave and many struggle to fit any summer holidays between exam boards and clearing. New research suggests that this deprivation can have serious...
Both employers and union officials will be relieved that this week's ballot result shows a convincing majority in favour of ending the higher education pay dispute. The 55 per cent turnout represents...
For the drop-out rates published among this week's performance indicators to be rising would not be surprising if the measures of widening participation were moving in the same direction. The...
Although we wish to progress issues of equality within the University and College Union and to bring the expertise and enthusiasm of all members to its work, we cannot allow the allegations of...
I was shocked by the comments about the University and College Union's decision to give Paul Mackney responsibility for equalities. I have worked closely with Mackney for several years. His track...
I have no idea whether Sally Hunt or anybody else is the most suitable person to deal with equality matters at the University and College Union but I was depressed by the sexist undertone of the...
The devil looks after his own and in the case of Frank Ellis it's a truism. He decided to take early retirement and Leeds University has given him with a sweetener of one year's salary as well as...
I'm sorry to intrude on your navel-gazing but I resent a paragraph in your touching article "Staff exposed to parent rage" (July 7) that is intended to be read as the straw that broke the back of the...
You would never have known from the article about the Quality Assurance Agency's report on the outcomes of the institutional audit of 24 specialist institutions that the majority were found to be...
Matthew Humphrey and Marc Stears find the fact that medical researchers are protected by legislation "problematic" ("Disruptive politics must be allowed to muscle in", Opinion, July 7). They suggest...
University and College Union members in post-1992 institutions are being balloted on proposed changes to their pensions. These changes will have a detrimental effect on future academics and set up a...