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Lambert calls for UKPd200m to aid industry research

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Richard Lambert, in a review of university-business collaboration in the UK produced fro the Treasury, states that the government should invest up to an additional UKPd200 mil in university research because the funding system is currently concentrating too much money on a small elite group, thereby threatening the viability of entire research departments. Chancellor Gordon Brown has welcomed the report, a move that is seen as a boost for calls from the universities for additional public investment in 2004's comprehensive spending review.

Government expenditures, Colleges & Universities, Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, Research and Testing Services, Scientific Research and Development Services, Colleges and universities, Research & Development-Universities, Finance, Reports, University research, Government finance, Lambert, Richard

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Pay system aims to close wages gap

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Estelle Morris, education secretary, is promoting a revamped university pay-bargaining system to discourage a higher education staff recruitment and retention crisis. She also aims to bridge the gender gap. Toward this end, Morris has introduced the national employers' and trade unions' Joint Negotiating Committee, which has been infused with a 300,000 pounds sterling donation.

Innovations, Economic policy, Education, Pay equity, Morris, Estelle

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Market forces dictate wages

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Vice-chancellors are offering a range of different pay and reward packages to meet individual market needs as the deadline arrived for universities to implement the 2004 pay modernisation reforms. There are notable variations in starting salaries, upper pay limits in some job grades and even the amount of time taken to move up the career ladder.

Personnel administration, Compensation and benefits, College teachers, College faculty, Labor relations, Education, Higher, Higher education

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