Sponsors wash hands of site
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Common web
The Commonwealth Institute has launched a virtual learning network and web portal designed to deepen relationships between the 54 member countries. Don McKinnon, Commonwealth general secretary, said...
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Market edge
Manchester Metropolitan University has launched a dot-com company to exploit knowledge in marketing education and training. The new company, multimediamarketing.com, was initially funded by a Pounds...
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Business top ten
Harvard tops the league of MBA excellence compiled by the American Universities Admission Program (AUAP), the organisation that helps foreign students to enter United States universities. The...
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Equal voice
Lena Huss of the centre for multi-ethnic research at Uppsala University, Sweden, has started a network for research on minority languages. The network's website lists 40 names of institutions and...
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Virgin terrain
The University of Glamorgan is teaming up with Richard Branson, Young Enterprise Wales and IT company Hewlett-Packard to develop an online enterprise college in Pontypridd. The college, to be...
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Skills school
Staffordshire University, in partnership with engineering firm JCB, is to open a pioneering centre that will give youngsters access to state-of-the-art learning technology. The university hopes that...
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Service update
Bath Information Data Services (Bids), the research service for higher and further education, has unveiled a new look with simplified navigation and extra supporting information for its 500,000...
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Sheffield shines
The University of Sheffield website has been awarded top position in the Yorkshire Website Awards. The website, which serves information to users from 105 countries, took honours in the non-profit...
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Technophobe
(Photograph) - Digital film-makers have the chance to replicate the success of The Blair Witch Project with skills learnt on a course to be launched next month by City University. Blair Witch owed...
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Pensions: preempt the Treasury
Managers of the Univer-sities Superannuation Scheme were right to err on the side of caution in estimating a decade or two ago how well investments would fare to pay staff pensions ("Richer than you...
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Pensions: preempt the Treasury
Andrew Oswald failed to mention in his article the USS's stinginess in its cost-of-living increases. It is enhancing pensions this year by 2.1 per cent, less than academics' pay settlement is likely...
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Pensions: preempt the Treasury
I find Oswald's suggestion that the value of USS pensions be increased an attractive one. As actuaries are by nature conservative, it would be useful to have an actuary's view on the USS's financial...
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Pensions: preempt the Treasury
The USS is bloated with money for two reasons: the unanticipated decline in academic pay has caused a corresponding fall in actuarial liability for the USS, and because whenever a USS member moves to...
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Blessing in disguise
You report an employment tribunal ruling that it constitutes sexual discrimination to make participation in the research assessment exercise a condition of employment because fewer women than men...