Pay rises will be linked to performance
University staff must accept performance-related pay in return for a rise, according to the outgoing president of Universities UK. Sir Howard Newby, vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton...
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Queen's honour sparks diplomatic row George Bain, Canadian-born vice-chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast, is at the centre of a diplomatic row after being awarded a knighthood in the Queen's...
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Bugs Bunny experiment releases Mickey Mouse memories
The power of advertising to "rewrite" childhood memories has been exposed with the help of Bugs Bunny. A group of students was prompted by a phoney magazine advertisement to recall a meeting with the...
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Access rhetoric fails to impress chiefs
The government's rhetoric on widening participation has not been matched by appropriate action, higher education leaders warned this week. A Universities UK conference on widening participation heard...
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Medicine urged to confront race bias
Ethnic minority doctors face discrimination from the moment they apply to medical school to the day they retire, according to a report out this week from the King's Fund, an independent think-tank....
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Clerics up in arms as reverend rejected
Academics and clerics have accused the archbishop of Canterbury of bringing the Anglican faith into disrepute in a row over his power to award degrees. The church has rejected an applicant for its...
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Accounting error threatens jobs
A discrepancy in accounting systems has threatened the jobs of nearly half the staff at the University of Greenwich's Natural Resources Institute. Up to 130 of the institute's 280 staff face...
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Burning ambitions
Art student Marion Downes was devastated when her sister's Ford Fiesta containing a whole year's work was stolen as she prepared for her degree show. Any hope of retrieving the 2,000 photographs and...
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Philosophy scores add to QAA criticism
A quality assurance expert this week suggested that a "cartel" of quality inspectors was artificially bolstering the performance of philosophy departments in the Quality Assurance Agency's teaching...
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News in brief
Brunel appoints new vice-chancellor Brunel University's new vice-chancellor will be Steven Schwartz (pictured), head of Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia. Professor Schwartz was born in...
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Spurned Bolton in QAA fury
A Quality Assurance Agency special review that denied Bolton Institute the title of university has been dismissed as "selective, unbalanced, factually inaccurate, and procedurally flawed". The attack...
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Experts fear for public health as cutbacks bite
Government scientists have warned of more public health crises on the scale of BSE or worse as a result of under-investment in research. The Institution of Professionals, Managers and Specialists has...
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Scots play down concerns over gaps in exam data
The Scottish Qualifications Authority has admitted it has some 13,000 incomplete course entries for students nine weeks before candidates are due to be sent examination results. But SQA senior...
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Inquiry lifts the lid on racism
There is "clear evidence of institutional racism" in further education colleges, an independent nationwide inquiry has found. Black people make up a tiny proportion of teaching and support staff in...
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Allies revive image of Scapa Flow wreck
The submerged history of Scapa Flow is being uncovered through a joint effort by higher education and marine technology. A survey of the warship wrecks of the German High Seas Fleet, scuttled 82...