Deal struck on staff contracts
The Robert Gordon University and the Educational Institute of Scotland have reached an 11th hour agreement on academic contracts, avoiding a further legal battle. The union won a Court of Session...
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Good old daze
Is Labour's front-bench education and employment team on some kind of productivity bonus? Not content with generating about half of the thick pack of reports handed over to conference delegates, it,...
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NUS alerts student tenants to the dangers of the Housing Act
Booze, buddies, boogie and boredom. Alan Thomson samples the ups and downs of freshers' week. The National Union of Students issued special guidelines this week amid fears that new legislation will...
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French without grammar
School-leavers' proficiency in English grammar may be declining but this has little bearing on students' abilities to learn a foreign language at university, says a report from Lancaster University....
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Minister leaves legacy of 3,000 extra places
More than 3,000 extra students should go to university or a technological institute this year in Greece, former education secretary George Papandreou announced on the eve of the election in which the...
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Private rules for public institutions
Dire is the only word to describe the picture painted by the Higher Education Funding Council for England's analysis of the financial forecasts of English and northern Irish universities. The figures...
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Worth his salt
Aisling Irwin (THES, September ) dates "the birth of animal rights" with the publication of Paul Singer's Animal Liberation in 1975 and the notion of "rights" as derived from the United States. Henry...
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Personnel chief wins Pounds 40,000 sex case
A former head of personnel has won a Pounds 40,000 settlement from a church-funded higher education college amid claims of unfair dismissal and sex discrimination. Evelyn Henson negotiated the...
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Colleges fear benefit rule impact
Colleges are braced for a bureaucratic headache when the amount of tuition that students on benefit are legally allowed is cut next week. The rule change means that recipients of the Jobseekers'...
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Mentor scheme to help freshers
Booze, buddies, boogie and boredom. Chris Johnston samples the ups and downs of freshers' week. A scheme designed to help freshers cope with their difficult first year in higher education has been...
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Smooth oil for troubled waters
Aberdeen University could help prevent a rerun of the Brent Spar controversy, in which Shell and Greenpeace clashed over the strategy for decommissioning the floating oil installation, with a new...
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Danish doctor deal 'idiotic'
A new agreement which subsidises Norwegian medical students studying in Denmark, displacing Danes in a country which already facing a shortage of doctors and dentists, has created a political storm....
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Grammar's lost generation
Twentysomethings are desperate to learn correct and accessible English, says Gerry Kreibich. If the hullabaloo about allegedly appalling standards of literacy among ll-year-olds has a happy ending -...
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Priest aids reluctant students
Colleges are proving inventive in their struggle to retain students in further education. One has employed a priest to help, while others are sending counsellors and teams on home and youth club...
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Davies fights for Commons life
Huw Richards reports from the Labour party conference in Blackpool. Nobody would ever call Bryan Davies a lucky politician. For the second time in his career he faces losing his place in the House of...