Staff feel stress of insecure contracts
Almost two-thirds of contract researchers and teachers in geography fear insecurity at work is affecting their health and well-being, a pilot survey has found. Caitriona Ni Laoire of Queen's...
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Graduate job recovery slows
The number and range of graduate employment opportunities is growing again, but not as quickly as employers had predicted, a national survey has found. Employers responding to a salaries and...
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Wales adds up price of freedom
Despite devolution, Welsh education is still under-funded, Tony Tysome finds. When the Welsh National Assembly began to operate in July 1999, further and higher education chiefs in Wales could have...
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Farren pressed to scrap loans
Northern Ireland's higher and further education minister, Sean Farren, has come under pressure to honour a commitment to abolish student loans and introduce a proper grants system. With the province'...
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Scott restoration work reaches halfway mark
An international research team is celebrating passing the halfway point in publishing a revolutionary edition of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels. The multimillion-pound project, published by...
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Bar may compel student support
The Bar Council could introduce a compulsory system of funding for student barristers. At its next meeting in February, the council will consider proposals for funding students on the Bar vocational...
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More pay lures lecturers away
Further education colleges are suffering from severe skills shortages because qualified lecturers are being lured into better paid jobs in industry and schools, a national survey has found. The...
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University mergers loom
Students will have fewer universities to choose from in future as growing pressures force institutional collaboration and merger, a senior vice-chancellor predicted this week. Sir David Watson, vice-...
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MPs warned of risk to quality from student funding squeeze
University standards are being hit by a lack of cash, higher education quality chief John Randall admitted this week, writes Alan Thomson. But Mr Randall, chief executive of the Quality Assurance...
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Correction
In The THES , January 12, we said the Quality Assurance Agency had criticised Exeter University for failing to appoint an external examiner to its BA in business studies and marketing delivered by...
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Latest UK news
Tories woo students with tax relief Graduates would not begin repaying their student loans until their salaries reached £20,000 a year under Conservative plans for higher education...
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Tories plan student loan shake-up
Students would start repaying their student loans once they were earning £20,000 a year - twice the current threshold - under Conservative plans for higher education. Undergraduates' loan repayments...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES The government will issue advice to shareholders in drug companies to prevent animal rights activists obtaining information about their identities. The role of employers in...
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Glittering prizes
David Bates , Edwards professor of medieval history at the University of Glasgow, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Caen for his contribution to medieval Norman and Anglo-...
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In the news: Gordon McVie
Canvassing cancer research staff at the University of Nottingham, which last year accepted funding from British American Tobacco, has placed Gordon McVie, director general of the Cancer Research...