Natfhe to accept employers' revised pay offer
Natfhe has agreed to accept the employers' revised pay offer, which involves setting up working groups on sex discrimination and casualisation with an agreed timetable for action.
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Don's Diary
Thursday An orderly week ahead. Drive to Cambridge to examine a doctorate and then scout tour-sites for next week's "Robin Hood" conference in Nottingham. Friday Disorder looms. According to...
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Ministers accused of cover-up
The government was this week accused of suppressing a survey it commissioned that threatened to wreck its plans to scrap student maintenance grants and introduce undergraduate tuition fees. Liberal...
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Wellcome talks of home for X-ray source
The Wellcome Trust's board of governors met on Wednesday to discuss the siting of the United Kingdom's Pounds 200 million X-ray source for biomedical and physical sciences research. The trust, which...
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University chemists get poor pickings
Chemical companies are "acutely concerned" about the government's under-investment in university infrastructure support, according to a survey of 67 top firms by the Chemical Industries Association....
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Irish cross-border study centre opens
The Centre for Cross Border Studies opened in Armagh this week as a joint initiative between Queen's University, Belfast, Dublin City University and the Workers Educational Association. The European...
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Farming students wise up to wildlife threat
Agricultural students are learning about farmland wildlife as a result of a partnership between the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the land-based colleges' national consortium. The two...
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Welsh to offer a taste of school maths
A taster course in secondary school maths teaching for prospective PGCE students is planned by the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, and the Open University. Called "open distance learning",...
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OU Scotland urges part-time support
Financial support should be reinstated for part-time as well as full-time students, the Open University in Scotland has told the Cubie committee. Peter Syme, director of the OU in Scotland, said: "We...
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Business gurus 'need UK think-tank'
Britain needs a virtual centre for management excellence that draws on business school experts in order to keep up with global competitors, the Council for Industry and ÌÇÐÄVlog said this...
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Verona
Italy's supreme court is reported to have judged that 22 foreign-language lettori at the University of Verona were unfairly sacked from their jobs by rector Mario Marigo three years ago. They refused...
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Beijing
China is to increase higher education participation from 9 to 15 per cent of the population by 2010. The national budget for education will also increase by 1 per cent annually over the next three to...
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Minister resigns in cash scandal
PARIS Investigations into corruption and misuse of funds at France's biggest student social insurance society have led to the resignation of the country's economics and finance minister, Dominique...
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Fewer colleges 'at risk' of financial collapse
The number of colleges in financial crisis has dropped, the Further Education Funding Council's annual report confirms. Fourteen colleges have been removed from the "category C" financial danger list...
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Luanda
Lecturers at the National University of Angola in Luanda are so worried about the financial drain caused by the country's civil war that they have formed the Alliance for a Peace Movement in Angola....