Pay deal struck
A 2.7 per cent pay offer has been accepted in a ballot of members of the Association of University and College Lecturers representing staff in the new universities and colleges of higher education. "...
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Contract strikes
Twenty further education colleges were disrupted by strikes during enrolment this week as lecturers campaigned against new contracts. Strikes were avoided at the last minute at Handsworth, Shrewsbury...
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Satellite lost
A Pounds 3.5 million satellite designed and built by Surrey University engineers for Chile has been declared lost in space after it failed to detach from a Ukranian spacecraft after its launch last...
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Union merger
The union of the two main bodies representing further and higher education colleges, the Association for Collegesc and the Colleges Employers Forum, came a step nearer this week when both agreed to...
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Greenwich naval bid
The University of Greenwich is expected to make a multimillion pound bid for the Royal Naval College, put up for sale this week. The university says it is willing to take over the Pounds 1 million...
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Union to fight staff dismissals
The Educational Institute of Scotland is to pursue unfair dismissal claims on behalf of three academics made compulsorily redundant at Jewel and Esk Valley College. The union says it does not accept...
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Singed sausages burn fingers
Student fare may be humble, but the price of the average undergraduate's gastronomic experiments is potentially astronomic. The burned burger and the singed sausage, trademark of the novice self-...
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Spy row prompts dig halt
The University of Wales has suspended its involvement in an archaeological dig in Bulgaria after a senior lecturer was accused of military espionage and expelled. Douglass Bailey, an American who...
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Knights top pay league
Vice chancellors who have been knighted earn 31 per cent more than those without public honours, according to a report by economists on top academics' pay. It predicts that the new openness about...
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Catching on
(Photograph) - Catching on: a passer-by admires a model of a Rolls-Royce for the 21st century made by Sean Henstridge, a graduate from the MA automotive design course at Coventry University, whose...
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Mururoa divides scientists
Scientists are polarised about possible environmental damage caused by French nuclear tests such as Tuesday's at Mururoa atoll in the Pacific. Most scientists think that the explosion will create an...
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Vet school anthrax stocks destroyed
Stocks of anthrax bacteria at Cambridge University department of clinical veterinary medicine have been destroyed after the Health and Safety Executive discovered that the bug was being handled in a...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a work which describes a novel use for liver: "So (said the doctor). Now vee may perhaps to begin. Yes?" The winner of last week's competition, who correctly...
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Speaking Volumes: Studies in the History of Education
Gary McCulloch on Brian Simon's Studies in the History of Education . The books that have shaped my academic development in the field of the history of education have fallen into three camps: the...
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Accidents waiting to happen
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