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...
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Drinkers reach the parts others do not reach
The key part played by alcohol in the lives of first-year students has been highlighted by research showing non-drinkers have the most problems settling into university. A study at Hull and Essex...
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Union asks for room at the top
Natfhe, the lecturers' union, has called for the law to be changed to provide for larger, more representative, and more accountable university governing bodies. It has also proposed a higher...
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Lobby to lower age of consent
Red roses woven into a figure 16 became the mascot of a lobby of parliament this week as students protested that the age of consent for gay and bisexual men was still discriminatory. The lobby,...
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United colours of South Africa
One year after South Africa's first all-race elections, Nelson Mandela's government is urging universities and tecknikons - historically differentiated by race - to transform themselves in their...
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Mentor mugging
The Educational Institute of Scotland has challenged the Government's Pounds 2 million teacher mentor scheme, set for Scottish secondary schools this autumn. The EIS says there is no educational case...
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Ulster boost
Increased joint ventures by universities north and south of the border have been suggested by the London and Dublin governments. The framework document for future political development between the...