Students may face 'nous' test
Final-year undergraduates may be expected to take a national test which demonstrates their employment potential, if embryonic plans by academics and graduate recruiters are implemented. Likened to a...
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Boosting morale
(Photograph) - Boosting morale: Members of Natfhe college branches around London joined demonstrating lecturers from Southwark College in support of their all-out strike which began on March 14. The...
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V-c pay survey
Last week's survey of vice chancellors' pay omitted Bristol University, whose vice chancellor John Kingman received a salary of Pounds 86,650 in 1993/94. Derek Fraser, vice chancellor of Teesside...
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County Hall sale
The National Audit Office report on the sale of County Hall, London, is expected either today or on Monday. The report will look at the decision to sell the building to a Japanese hotel group rather...
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Grants go-slow
The Audit Commission this week reported that only one in five local authorities had paid out all their mandatory student grants by the start of term in 1993. Its report on Local Authority Performance...
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Lack of trust at Guildhall
An inquiry into London Guildhall University has warned that addressing the reasons for low morale is more important than debating whether the complaints underlying it are justified. The inquiry was...
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Research ratings justify higher charges
Higher education institutions should capitalise on the results of the research assessment exercise when negotiating external contracts, a financial consultant advised this week. Melanie Burdett, a...
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Commercial probe
The Royal Society of Edinburgh and Scottish Enterprise are conducting a year-long inquiry in the commercialisation of Scotland's science base. They will look at academic attitudes to...
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Headhunters out
Portsmouth University is establishing a search committee, with members from its five faculties to encourage staff to recommend candidates for the vacant vice chancellorship. The university governors...
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Wealth of talent
The Institute of Public Policy Research will announce the full membership of its Commission on Wealth Creation at the formal launch on April 7. George Bain, principal of the London Business School,...
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Foresight study puts biology in top place
Biology will be the dominant science of the 21st century and Britain should commit itself to a big drive in research and exploitation of areas such as ageing and disabling degenerative diseases, the...
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Top-level clash on quality plan
Vice chancellors and the Higher Education Funding Council for England are still at odds over quality assurance as the deadline looms for submitting proposals to the Government. Graeme Davies, chief...
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Feel-real factor sweeps NUS
Student leaders have prepared the ground for a wholesale review of their policy on funding tuition and students in the further and higher education system. Eighteen university unions proposed a...
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First sight for Foresight
The Office of Science and Technology this week declared the first batch of reports from the Government's Pounds 1.6 million Foresight exercise on research needs and market opportunities for the...
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V-cs ask for five-year tax clause
Vice chancellors, who signed up to the tax-driven Qualifying Indexed Securities scheme, this week demanded a five-year exemption to tax changes announced in the November budget. They calculate that...