Promotion ladder blocks equality
Most universities radically reduce monitoring by gender, race and disability once someone is appointed, according to Natfhe, the university and college lecturers' union. The union yesterday launched...
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All you need is Love
(Photograph) - All you need is Love: Liverpool Royal Infirmary, derelict for 16 years, is to be redeveloped as a health care, teaching and research centre by Liverpool University and the North West...
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Welsh funding goes its own way
The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales has set out its plans for the next three years in a corporate strategy which is increasingly distinctive from that of its English counterpart. The...
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Flu vaccine misses its target
Levels of flu vaccinations across Britain are woefully inadequate, partly because GPs and hospital doctors are not pushing the vaccine enough, according to Leicester University expert Karl Nicholson...
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Terrorist threat denied
The London School of Economics has strongly denied allegations that it is a recruiting ground for Muslim terrorists. A spokesman for the Indian High Commission in London this week named only one...
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Squirrel nut
(Photograph) - Bleddyn Richards has just completed an MSc at the University of Glamorgan on the impact of grey squirrels on commercial forestry. The animals look pretty but breed ferociously,...
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Survival battle for herbal medicine
Herbalists are predicting European medicine regulations will spell the end for their practice -- just as what is hailed as the first herbal medicine degree in Britain started at Middlesex University...
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Huddersfield meets wanderer William
Sir William Taylor has been in his new job for less than a fortnight but like his predecessor at the helm of Huddersfield University, he is making waves. Unsuspecting staff enjoying a drink in the...
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AUT attack on contract abuse
Lecturers this week accused universities of breaking national agreements on the employment of contract staff. The Association of University Teachers' attack is based on a survey of contract...
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Ballot on Scots pay deal
The future of national bargaining for Scotland's further education lecturers is in the balance this week, with staff being balloted on a new deal allowing some conditions to be negotiated locally....
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Peaceline campus gets Pounds 15m
The European Union is poised to announce a Pounds 15 million injection for the University of Ulster's proposed "peaceline" campus in West Belfast. Full details of the package agreed by European...
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CVCP encourages laboratory takeovers
The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals this week called on Government departments and research councils to throw open their doors to universities interested in taking on public sector...
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Young bloods
The student edition of the British Medical Journal includes a helpful article by Alun Evans, a final-year medical student in London, and Simon Donovan, surgical officer in Hereford, on how medical...
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Slippery slope
Just as well that Buddhists do not go in for fatwas, or the public relations staff at La Sainte Union College and theology lecturer Danny Sullivan would be making hurried preparations for Rushdie-...
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Show down
Soapy science could have made its television debut, rivalling the familiar characters in the Rovers Return and the Queen Vic, if Salford's vice chancellor had his way. Tom Husband recently revealed...