MPs urge Brown to rethink don nomination
MPs have called on chancellor Gordon Brown to reconsider his nomination of academic Christopher Allsopp, a fellow of New College, Oxford, to sit on the Bank of England's interest rate-setting...
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Belgrade
Former Yugoslav president and academic Dobrica Cosic, who once proposed partioning Kosovo, has joined judges, academics and intellectuals on the council of Otpor, the Serbian resistance movement....
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Njoro
Six lecturers accused of sexual harassment at Kenya's Egerton University have been sacked after a nine-man committee found them guilty of demanding favours from female students in return for good...
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LSE appeals against discrimination ruling
The London School of Economics has lodged an appeal against an employment tribunal ruling that found it guilty of sexual discrimination. Helen Mercer, a lecturer in business history, accused the...
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Ashcroft puts cash and name into Anglia
Controversial Conservative Party treasurer Michael Ashcroft has confirmed a Pounds 5 million donation to set up a business school at Anglia Polytechnic University. The Ashcroft International Business...
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England gets Bizet with football
Football fans should be encouraged to sing along to classical music during matches to cheer their team on, according to researchers from Sunderland University. A study of more than 1,000 Sunderland...
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LibDems look at tax and spend
The Liberal Democrats may be about to ditch their traditional tax-and-spend higher education policy and face up to "hard-nosed" financial realities. A funding working group, chaired by higher...
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Whelan to put spin on AUT image
The Association of University Teachers has hired former Treasury spin-doctor Charlie Whelan to help shake off its "stuffy" image. The AUT is determined to win the hearts and minds of tabloid...
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FE training to get Pounds 100m windfall
Ministers and civil servants are awaiting Treasury approval to spend up to Pounds 100 million to introduce compulsory teaching qualifications in further education. Lecturers' union leaders say...
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CVCP considers funding models
Vice-chancellors are "open-minded" about the need for top-up fees as they begin their radical reappraisal of higher education funding for the next decade. The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and...
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Clean sweep
(Photograph) - Students from two Aberdeen University groups, the Aberdeen Conservation Volunteers and Shared Planet, clean up a beach at the mouth of the River Don. Anne-Mette Sylvest (pictured), ofg...
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Sexism and ageism blight careers of female academics, says Natfhe
Women academics are suffering from the "double whammy" of gross ageism as well as institutionalised sexism, Natfhe said this week. Research published by Natfhe on the eve of its Blackpool conference...
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Union prepares to fight for the abolition of RAE
New university lecturers are set for a clash with funding chiefs over the future of research funding. Lecturers' union Natfhe is to demand the abolition of the research assessment exercise at its...
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Kent University lost in space
The University of Kent has lost a team of space scientists to the Open University. Four senior scientists - Tony McDonnell, John Zarnecki, Simon Green and Neil McBride - will join Colin Pillinger's...
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Quality system open to abuse, critics claim
Critics fear that watchdogs will strike secret deals with elite universities that will invalidate reports under the new quality framework. Variations in the "intensity of scrutiny" of inspections...