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Last week in the TES: Natalie Fenton argued that academics were right to take industrial action over this year's pay claim: Gerald Vinten Deputy dean and professor of management Southampton Business...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in the TES: Reg Jordan argued that medical students should study unorthodox medicine: Christopher C. French, Head of department, Department of psychology Goldsmiths College, London To...
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Net censors sought
The Australian Broadcasting Authority is advertising for staff to help it implement a controversial new federal censorship law. The authority has been given the job of filtering out pornographic...
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Colleges predict AS level apathy
Ministers' planned revolution in sixth-form study next year could be ruined by university conservatism and apathy, college and school leaders have warned. Funding shortfalls could also undermine the...
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Sofia
More than 14,000 hopeful students applied for 4,200 places at Sofia University in the Bulgarian capital. At the University of National and World Economy about 19,000 applicants were chasing 3,300...
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The THES diary
Bus ride to millions. The University of Abertay Dundee has launched a gloomy student recruitment campaign with the slogan "One of Abertay's graduates now works on the buses". Not quite so gloomy when...
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Cambridge Massachusetts
Harvard University has admitted that it misclassified many employees as temporary instead of full-time, cheating them of benefits and salary raises. The university said it will put things right,...
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Software slip adds to loan crisis
A botched database set up by the Student Loans Company will leave thousands of students strapped for cash as they start their higher education courses. The database supplied to local authorities by...
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Grade inflation reaches plateau
Nearly nine out of ten A-level exams sat this year were passed,but this week's results suggest that so-called "grade inflation" is beginning to level out, writes Alan Thomson. The numbers of A levels...
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More graduates find work
* Recent graduate unemployment fell one percentage point to 5 per cent last year, according to the First Destinations of Students Leaving ÌÇÐÄVlog Institutions 1997-98, published this week....
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Cordwainers College plumbs the depths
* The worst possible inspection grade for quality assurance has been given to Cordwainers College, East London. Inspectors from the Further Education Funding Council found "many weaknesses" in the...
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Women lack role models in economics
* Just 4 per cent of economics professors are women, a study from the Royal Economic Society's Committee on Women in Economics has found. The study, by Alison Booth of the University of Essex, found...
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Natfhe calls for review of FE staff conditions
* Lecturers' union Natfhe is to call for a fundamental review of pay and conditions for further education staff at this year's Trades Union Congress annual conference. Natfhe's motion welcomes the...
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Unis must be judged on attracting minorities
* Success in attracting and retaining ethnic minority students and lecturers should be added to the criteria for judging universities' performance, according to Natfhe. This autumn the funding...
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Course will teach how to catch NHS frauds
* Fraud and corruption in the National Health Service is to be tackled by training 500 staff to detect, take action against and deter the illegal misappropriation of taxpayers' money intended for...