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System 'shutdown'? UCU ballots over strike
Higher education's biggest union is to ballot for national strikes over jobs, pay and pensions as student activists claim that action could lead to the "shutdown" of the sector.The University and...
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Students’ show of solidarity with national strike action
Occupations are under way at two London universities as students rally in support of lecturers mounting a national strike over pensions, pay and jobs.
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The Week in Higher Education
Labour leader Ed Miliband hit back at David Cameron as the two University of Oxford graduates tussled over their days among the dreaming spires. During Prime Minister's Questions on 8 December, Mr...
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Student experience: A better learning environmentTen universities have won support to help them improve the quality of the student-learning experience. Under the Higher Education Academy's Evidence-...
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Freedom of InformationJisc plots a way through the jungleResearchers are being offered new advice on how to handle Freedom of Information requests for data. The Joint Information Systems Committee,...
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Surplus spending
If the Universities Superannuation Scheme is looking for a way to spend some of its (our?) surplus sensibly ("Conflicting interests in the grey market", 色盒直播S June 9), then employing a few more staff...
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Surplus value
Hefce says that record levels of spare cash prepare the academy for the new fees regime, but as new policies for allocating student places bed in, we might need to reassess its future financial...
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Graduate employmentToo many gaps to fillEmployers fear there will not be enough graduates and skilled workers to fill the "high-level jobs" created as the economy recovers from the recession, the CBI...
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PensionsUSS enters consultation periodMembers of higher education's biggest pension scheme are being consulted on plans to limit their benefits. The consultation on changes to the Universities...
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PensionsUSS reassurance on fundsThe Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) has told members that it is well placed to withstand the current financial turmoil, relative to other pension schemes. "As...