Calls to change contract culture

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Representatives from the Government, funding bodies and trade unions are to meet to review a concordat agreed in 1996 which had been designed to improve the careers and conditions of tens of thousands of researchers employed at universities in the UK on short-term contracts. It is widely acknowledged that the concordat has not been effective and that such researchers are still the "nomads" of the higher education world, living with the insecurity of fixed-term contracts.

Labor force information, Employment, University autonomy, Tort liability of universities and colleges

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The global economy's come to town: all welcome

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New research into the nationalities of those working at universities in the UK has revealed that German academics outnumber all other non-UK academics. The research revealed that, in 2003-2004, there were 26,000 academics of non-UK origin working at universities in the UK, of which Germans accounted for 2,500, followed by China with 2,080 and the United States with 2,040.

Labor Distribution by Employer, International aspects, Statistics, Surveys, Foreign teachers, Teachers, Foreign

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When the locals wish students would leave old Durham town

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Durham University has 6,500 students, double the number in 1975. Students have been assaulted and there is concern about their safety. The city has areas of deprivation, and many students have joined Student Community Action to try to improve relations between the city dwellers and the students.

Community

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