V-cs gain right to sack staff
Australian vice chancellors have greater power to sack staff following an Industrial Relations Commission decision. The federal commission accepted proposals by the vice chancellors to simplify...
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Forward-looking NVQ candidates
Describing the award of an NVQ at higher levels as being "for no more than current competences" (J. J. Sparkes, THES, April 26) demonstrates a lack of understanding of what candidates actually have...
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Science seedcorn must be nurtured
Volume I of the Foresight saga is published and we shall soon see how the Government intends to move forward. A report to be published later this month by the Office of Science and Technology,...
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Students warned off cult charmers
Officials at Japan's top universities are warning students to be wary of the recruiting activities of the nation's growing number of religious cults. The warnings come at the start of a new academic...
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Yale boots out student who forged his grades
Another case of a student lying to gain admission to an Ivy League College - this time a student who fabricated his scores to get into Yale - is causing further soul-searching in colleges and...
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Germans focus on research
Germany's Fachhochschule teachers are demanding more involvement in research and development activities but critics warn this could damage an advantage they have over the universities - shorter study...
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Moldova suffering from massive brain drain
Moldova is the latest former Communist state to be affected by a serious loss of key scientists and academics tempted to go abroad by better salaries and research facilities. A senior Moldovan...
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Battlefront drawing closer
The loophole which allows Russian graduates to avoid military conscription is closing fast. State Duma deputies (members of Russia's lower house) have overwhelmingly backed a new law extending...
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Sacked lecturers as cheap labour
An agricultural college is making six lecturers compulsorily redundant and offering them jobs back as "practical instructors" on half their previous pay. A total of 12 horticultural lecturers' jobs...
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Manufacturing 'not runt of NVQ litter'
The quango charged with introducing vocational qualifications has rejected claims by a Lords Government spokesman that the GNVQ for manufacturing has been poorly targeted. Lord Lucas, Government...
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Students see red over greening East Anglia
Students at the University of East Anglia are planning to launch a blistering attack on the institution's record for environmental management and responsibility. Josh Busby, student union environment...
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Student tutoring growing fast
The success of student tutoring schemes is very easy to measure in one way. Five years ago there were just four schemes, helped with BP cash, sending students in to local schools as tutors. Now there...
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World bankers come to town
International investment bankers, consultants and academics from all over the world converged on Bradford in April to discuss ways to make social and economic development projects more effective, to...
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Anthem row rumbles on
Queen's University of Belfast's ruling body has performed an almost impossible political feat as a row over dropping the national anthem at graduation ceremonies rages on. The university senate...
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V-cs devise expansion blueprint
The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals is urgently drawing up a series of town and country planning guidelines to cope with potential conflicts thatcould be caused by the need for new...