Catch in tax dodge
The University of West England's tax-free pay (TFP) scheme is no more a tax "dodge" than is deducting professional body subscriptions as an allowable expense in a tax return. It is a straightforward...
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Safe as houses
Rooms at Dundee University's new Pounds 3.5 million halls of residence are fitted with safes operated by student bank or credit cards using a "swipe" system.
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Oiling green palms
A Pounds 7 million proposal to build a marine environmental research centre in Wales has received approval from the Millennium Commission. The centre will be located in Pembrokeshire, near to the...
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A full platter
And a low-calorie welcome to the invited speaker at next week's Conservative party conference fringe meeting on "Obesity: A Plague for the 21st Century - Fat or Fiction", Professor Michael Lean of...
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Loans row hits poll
Already stumbling badly, Republican candidate Bob Dole's presidential campaign is now on the defensive over the United States' student loan programme. Republican attacks on popular "direct" loans...
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Holy grain
(Photograph) - Sculptor John Houlston has donated a representation of the solar system carved from a 500-year-old oak to the chapel at King's College London. The new one-tonne lectern, called The...
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But Labour rules out top-up fees
A Labour government would move against universities which introduced top-up fees to ensure that they gained no financial advantage from them. Speaking at this week's party conference in Blackpool,...
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Trend to tighter graduate targets
Graduate employers are getting "too choosy", according to the quarterly Graduate Salary and Vacancy Survey. Figures show that employers are targeting students more specifically than ever before. The...
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Amenable mater
Mike Scott, universities and colleges liaison officer of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, speaking at a recent Council of Europe conference on higher education access, revealed that...
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Blind pioneer's vision
The Disability Discrimination Act aims to encourage institutions to provide a better service for students with disabilities. Paul Brown, Scotland's national coordinator for students with special...
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No pain gain after surgery
Patients undergoing surgery may have faster recovery rates in future thanks to an advance in anaesthetics pioneered at Glasgow University. Target Controlled Infusion is seen as a major advance...
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Budding engineers go to market
Richard Barry argues for axing engineering faculties that accept students with low A-level points. I disagree. The purpose of education is to change minds, and the purpose of engineering is to change...
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A great thinker but an ordinary man
When Ann Oakley sat down to write a biography of her father, social thinker Richard Titmuss, she discovered that like many men of his generation much of his public success had been based on the...
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Catch in tax dodge
I read with interest your report of the Profit Related Pay scheme (PRP) at the University of the West of England, whereby an element of salary will be paid as a tax-free "profit" distribution. No...
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Benn on Blair
Tony Benn fires another salvo at New Labour in a review of Brian Brivati's biography of Hugh Gaitskell on page 24. He rejects perceptions of Gaitskell as an early Blairite moderniser, presenting him...