Hard-up Oxford college axes history
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Oxford University's college for mature students, Harris Manchester, is to drop history as a result of serious financial difficulties. The decision has been greeted with anger by the university's history faculty and students, with one senior member of the modern history faculty branding the decision a "disaster and a disgrace". Harris, one of the newest and poorest of Oxford's colleges, has seen the amount of money it receives through the college contribution scheme - through which the poorer colleges are subsidised by the wealthier ones - fall substantially. This year Harris has been allocated UKPd30,000 through the scheme, in 2001-2002 it was allocated UKPd300,000.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2003
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Soaring revenues stoke pay debate
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University revenues have risen considerably in recent years, according to a leaked analysis, and this has raised questions about how much vice-chancellors can afford to pay academics. A draft analysis of the financial prospects of English universities by the Higher Education Policy Institute has decsirbed the current decade as 'relatively prosperous; for English universities.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2006
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Oxford cash to kickstart careers
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Oxford University will provide GBP25 million over a period of five years to kick-start research careers of early stage academics. The money was donated by Oxford University Press and will allow early stage academics to buy equipment, attend conferences and undertake small-scale research projects.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2006
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