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http://www.edu1world.org/Global/22008 Cumbria faces £1m cut after ignoring rules on recruitment tweetmeme_source
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Cumbria faces £1m cut after ignoring rules on recruitment

by News on 03/05/2010 12:46   0 comments , 170 views
Last year the government told all the universities in England not to recruit more students in 2009-10 than they accepted in 2008-09. It warned institutions that they would be fined £3,700 for each student they took on above that threshold.
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http://www.edu1world.org/Global/21113 Funding postponement tweetmeme_source
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Funding postponement

by News on 01/05/2010 23:00   0 comments , 147 views
HEFCE has asked that JISC make no further commitments of capital funds ahead of the HEFCE board meeting on 28 January 2010 at which decisions on funding allocations will be made.    The ITTs and calls which are affected by this announcement are:
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http://www.edu1world.org/Global/19768 V-c: focus research cash or 'mediocrity' awaits tweetmeme_source
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V-c: focus research cash or 'mediocrity' awaits

by News on 10/22/2009 10:49   0 comments , 105 views
The UK must abandon the idea that excellent research should be funded wherever it is found and concentrate resources on just 25 to 30 universities, the chair of the Russell Group of large research-intensive institutions has argued.
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http://www.edu1world.org/Global/18646 Union plans academic boycott of London Met tweetmeme_source
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Union plans academic boycott of London Met

by News on 08/31/2009 08:09   0 comments , 90 views
In the UK, the University and College Union has threatened to ‘grey-list’ London Metropolitan University unless the institution backs down on job cuts.
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http://www.edu1world.org/Global/18608 League tables should be replaced, says v-c tweetmeme_source
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League tables should be replaced, says v-c

by News on 08/27/2009 23:00   0 comments , 75 views
Love them or loathe them, league tables ranking universities against each other have grown inexorably in recent years.
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http://www.edu1world.org/Global/18451 Funding body blow tweetmeme_source
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Funding body blow

by News on 08/23/2009 23:00   0 comments , 80 views
College administrators  have condemned a cut in university funding for foundation degrees, which they say will deal a major blow to further education colleges delivering higher education.
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http://www.edu1world.org/Global/18194 Change or perish, institutions told tweetmeme_source
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Change or perish, institutions told

by News on 08/13/2009 08:21   0 comments , 122 views
Analysis by accountancy firm Grant Thornton says surpluses of UK universities could be wiped out by 2012, leaving institutions facing financial ruin unless they make radical changes to the way they work.
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http://www.edu1world.org/Global/18140 Staff/student dispute resolution is ‘inadequate’, says study tweetmeme_source
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Staff/student dispute resolution is ‘inadequate’, says study

by News on 08/11/2009 13:32   0 comments , 88 views
Universities’ arrangements for dealing with disputes involving staff and students are inadequate, according to a new report from the Improving Dispute Resolution taskforce.
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http://www.edu1world.org/Global/18065 Report points the finger at London Met tweetmeme_source
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Report points the finger at London Met

by News on 08/06/2009 10:18   0 comments , 95 views
KPMG has advised funding chiefs to re-examine London Metropolitan University's student-data returns going back as far as 2002, raising the spectre that the troubled institution could have faced repaying even more than the £36.5 million it already must return.
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http://www.edu1world.org/Global/17957 Wolverhampton to cut up to 250 jobs tweetmeme_source
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Wolverhampton to cut up to 250 jobs

by News on 08/03/2009 10:35   0 comments , 155 views
The University of Wolverhampton plans to eliminate more than  250 jobs after the Higher Education Funding Council for England demanded that it repay £3.5 million. An audit by Hefce uncovered data inaccuracies that pushed the institution's debt to more than  £8 million.
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