Unaligned allies
A new grouping of university heads called for the retention of the 2008 research assessment exercise in its first statement this week. The Alliance of Non-aligned Universities, which represents...
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Funding feedback
Sir David Cooksey this week opened his consultation on the structure of the single ring-fenced health research fund announced in the Budget. Comments are invited by July 28 on the possible merger of...
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Hopeful signs
The world's first academic website to use British Sign Language was launched this week as part of Deaf Awareness Week. The site, www.bris.ac.uk/deaf, was developed by staff and students at Bristol...
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Correction
In our April 21 issue we implied that Lucy Johnstone is a lecturer at Bristol University. She is, in fact, a lecturer at Plymouth University, based in Bristol.
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Tories may go for growth
The Conservatives are to launch a review of higher education policy in a bid to better engage with academics and with the ever-growing student body. The review will be wide-ranging and will cover...
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Advisers wary, MPs warned
Academics will be increasingly reluctant to offer independent advice to the Government, according to researchers from the London School of Economics whose report on ID cards was savaged by ministers...
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Living legends
More than 100 staff and students at St Andrews University's School of Classics took to the streets as characters from the Iliad and the Odyssey. The 12-hour 'ÌÇÐÄVlograthon', in association with the...
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Door slams shut on a room of one's own
Academics' book-lined private offices are under threat as administrators try to cuts cost by introducing open-plan layouts. Alan Thomson reports For academics, it is a cherished private study space...
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Where are top union hot spots?
As the boycott action takes hold, The Times Higher reports on the prospects of local pay negotiations and maps out Natfhe's and the AUT's strongholds It isn't a simple matter of numbers when it comes...
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Dispute dispatches
* Birmingham University has docked by 10 per cent the pay of staff who have admitted to being involved in the assessment boycott. The deductions will be made from their April pay packets. It is the...
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Boycott fears for overseas market
Fears that industrial action will damage the international reputation of UK universities and hit the multimillion-pound market in foreign students grew this week. In a letter to universities, Will...
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Dispute could stimulate revival of interest in industrial past
It is a testing time for relations in higher education as academics target students in order to force employers to come up with more money for pay. But for one group of academics the dispute is...
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Union fears rift on local deals
Local settlements pose a threat to national pay talks, report Phil Baty and Olga Wojtas Lecturers' claims for a 23 per cent pay rise over the next three years could be fatally undermined, unions...
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Degree plan splits Welsh
While the University of Wales contemplates big changes, its future status remains uncertain. Tony Tysome reports Welsh academics, vice-chancellors and students remain deeply divided over plans to...
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Swansea is aiming to use its own title
Swansea University's application to use its own title hangs on whether the proposals to reform the University of Wales get the green light. It is expected that Bangor and Aberystwyth, both currently...