Hacking in
Glasgow University now has a new prof, or rather PrOf, created by its Press Office (geddit?). The university has set up a new service for the increasing number of hacks using email, who can now send...
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Scratch back
Annual reports have long been recognised as a means of publicising the universities issuing them - and now those generous folk at Stirling have extended the principle to publicising the staff of...
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Brunel happens
So much for Forrest Gump, move over Four Weddings and a Funeral. At last a real blockbuster appears set to hit our cinema screens. Spotted last week in the film section at Dillon's London University...
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An error of fax
Monday 10.38am. Natfhe's strident general secretary John Akker blasts off a fax with a broadside at Colleges' Employers' Forum chief executive Roger Ward over his role in the lecturers' contract...
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BMA to investigate Keele team
The British Medical Association ethics committee agreed last week to investigate controversial child protection procedures developed by a clinical research team based for the last three years at...
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Public funds safe in its hands, says FEFC
The Further Education Funding Council reassured Lord Nolan that Pounds 2.8 billion of public money was safe in its hands, when it came before his committee on standards in public life on Tuesday....
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Negotiator resigns in internal Natfhe split
The chairman of the college lecturers' national negotiating team resigned this week after his union, Natfhe, refused to agree to conciliation with employers. Peter Latham, like Natfhe general...
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East European studies under review
Specialist provision in East European and former Soviet Union studies is to be the subject of an inquiry by the higher education funding councils. The Higher Education Funding Council for England...
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A lone chair
(Photograph) - Peter Latham, who resigned as chair of Natfhe's national negotiating team this week after a dispute over tactics, fears members will be "brow-beaten or threatened into signing the new...
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Manchester Czechs in
Manchester Metropolitan University has graduated its first cohort of Czech business students at a ceremony in Prague. The students, from the Prague International Business School, have had their...
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Nursing research centre set for launch
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is joining forces with the Royal College of Nursing to set up a new policy centre for nursing research. Nick Black, reader in public health medicine...
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Literary award
Andrew Robinson, literary editor of The THES, has won the 1994 Outstanding Publication Award of the Association of Earth Science Editors for his book EarthShock, published by Thames and Hudson.
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Jobs safeguard
Lecturers' union Natfhe says a test case has established key safeguards for university staff jobs threatened when courses are franchised. In the case of a University of Humberside lecturer, who lost...
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Discretionary talks
Local authority associations are seeking ministerial approval for national guidelines on issuing discretionary awards to students, as more are threatened by council cuts. Further and higher education...
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Governors retreat
Three governors sacked by education secretary Gillian Shephard from Wilmorton College, Derby, have called off their legal threat to the Further Education Funding Council. They abandoned a plan to...