Overseas agent probe

Article Abstract:

Education consultancy I-graduate will start a study in 2007 into how overseas agents operate, the relationships they have with the institutions they represent and how much they know of the institutions and their marketing strategies. The study comes amid concern about the damage being done by unscrupulous agents to Britain's reputation in the overseas students market.

Reports, Surveys, Students, Foreign, Foreign students

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Sex parity 50 years off

Article Abstract:

An analysis of staff data for 2005-06 reveals that at prevailing levels of higher education recruitment, female lecturers will outnumber male lecturers at British universities by 2009 but need 50 years to reach parity at professorial level. The projected figures are based on the rising proportion of female academics since 2000-01as compared to males.

Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, Comparative analysis, Women college teachers, Women college faculty, Women teachers, Women educators

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UCU 'surrender' over pay deal

Article Abstract:

University and College Union (UCU) activists claim that lecturers taking part in the higher education pay campaign this year were let down by leaders who 'lost their nerve' and 'surrendered' a better pay rise. Activists made their views known at a special highed education conference.

Negotiation, mediation and arbitration, Lecturers, Teachers' unions

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