Manual staff underpaid overstressed and ignored
MARIE Conlan takes home Pounds 68 a week from her cleaning job at the United Kingdom's biggest non-collegiate university. The 30,000-student Manchester Metropolitan University pays Mrs Conlan Pounds...
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A-level reform on hold as ministers disagree
Reform of the A-level system has been put on hold for at least a year to allow wider consultation, education and employment minister Baroness Blackstone confirmed this week. It is understood that...
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Unions unite to fight role analysis
THE COUNTRY's two largest lecturing unions have joined forces in a bid to sink a new staff role analysis scheme. The Association of University Teachers and lecturers' union Natfhe agreed last Friday...
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Students clueless about SMEs, and vice versa
Small firms discriminate against graduates in the job market, a study by Huddersfield University for Wakefield Training and Enterprise Council has revealed. Despite the fact that the "small and...
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Health warning on science policy formulae
Scientists must get more involved in issues of science policy if the health of European science is to be safeguarded, says Sir Dai Rees, president of the European Science Foundation. In his president...
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Art expert takes sour view of Royal Holloway
A FINE art expert from the BBC's Antiques Roadshow is suing a University of London college, claiming more than Pounds 200,000 in damages relating to alleged unpaid commission for the sale of a...
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Brian Wilson gets Gaelic
Brian Wilson, the Scottish Office minister for education and industry, has been given special responsibility for Gaelic in a pioneering Government initiative. Mr Wilson has championed Gaelic...
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Orlando Figes
In the High Court last week, The THES apologised to the author and historian Orlando Figes over an article published on May 2, "Plagiarise. . . only be sure to call it research." The article referred...
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Outrage over ALF squeeze
Many of England's most successful further education colleges, already reeling after last week's college funding allocations, are facing further cuts as the deadline was set this week to create a...
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Latest FEFC figures on college deficits
The latest FEFC figures show that the number of colleges with an operating deficit had increased to 5 compared with 204 in 1994 and 263 in 1995. Eighty colleges had accumulated deficits at July 1996...
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Pay for promises Labour is told
HIGHER education's biggest trade union Unison has questioned the Government's ability to deliver more and better further education and training. Rodney Bickerstaffe, general secretary of Unison,...
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Virtual voyage
The Natural History Museum's virtual gallery of James Cook's voyage on the Endeavour opens on the Internet next Thursday until August 31. Created by 11 European partners, the gallery allows visitors...
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Prizes for pages
Academic web sites will compete for two Pounds 1,000 prizes in the 1998 UCISA Web Awards presented by the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (www.ucisa.ac.uk). For the...
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Information about information
The University of Teesside's Community Informatics Research and Applications unit is launching a journal, Information, Communication and Society, to be published quarterly by Routledge. It will be...
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Exclusive offer
The Community of European Management Schools, which counts the London School of Economics among its 13 participating schools, has established an Internet job mart enabling graduates to shop for...