Academics win 18 per cent rise
Academics at four Australian universities have won pay rises of up to 18 per cent and most of the other 32 public tertiary institutions are expected to reach salary agreements with the higher...
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A loan source of university income
Adequate public funding of higher education is not possible for a mass system. The only way British universities will get more resources is from the private sector. What is needed is a loan system...
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Open, improving and accountable
Britain's university research assessments provide a once-in-four-years snapshot of its academic research endeavour, a picture open for the world to see. The 1996 results show both the level of...
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True minds should admit to marriage
Theatres and universities should stop flirting and take the plunge. Paul Allen sees no impediments to union. Like Beatrice and Benedict in Much Ado About Nothing, theatres and universities have eyed...
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Publish and be crammed
Hugh Willmott believes that under the guise of improving efficiency the research assessment exercise has produced a Kafkaesque nonsense of product degradation. "Well, I've already got my four (...
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Irks at Birkbeck
Contrary to what was stated in your story "Science fears for Birkbeck" (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, December 13), compulsory redundancy notices were not, and have not been, issued to four members of staff. Birkbeck's...
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Irks at Birkbeck
Mat Gilman and Sally Whitaker's defence of Birkbeck's performance on University Challenge (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, December 13) is an attempt to shift the blame from where it really lies, with Gilman himself, as...
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Exquisite melting moment
An open letter to those universities deducting 1/260th from the salaries of those who went on the one-day strike on November 19. Dear vice chancellors, I am delighted to see that with your...
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Pay later
The annual report of the Universities Superannuation Scheme reminds us that academics permit their pensions to be invested in a scheme with no stated ethical criteria. Unethical investments are...
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Rail against expectations
Rail transport ("Tunnel vision", É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, December 13) has traditionally been viewed as the safest form of transport since its designers subscribe to the concept of "failure to safety", that is, when...
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Overseas franchise warning
BRITISH universities and colleges involved in a burgeoning multi-billion pound overseas partnerships and franchising market have been warned to tighten their controls on quality. Most students on...
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Towers of strength
The quality and volume of research throughout British higher education has risen over the past four years, this week's results from the 1996 Research Assessment Exercise show. Former polytechnics and...
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Teaching formula flak
É«ºÐÖ±²¥ HIGHER Education Funding Council's proposed new funding method for teaching will mean cuts and departmental closures, academics are complaining. Geographers and psychologists have led a chorus of...
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An exercise in dexterity
INSTITUTIONAL outcomes from this year's Research Assessment Exercise show the importance of being able to work the system. Universities that used such skills, in particular by excluding non-research...
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O come all ye faithful
A scientist Christian, a retail management expert, a Jew and a Muslim tell The É«ºÐÖ±²¥S what Christmas means to them JOHN POLKINGHORNE, recently retired as president of Queens' College, Cambridge. His...