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• Britain's Universities Face Summer of Discontent BROW~ University of Edinburgh, Old Colleg~ THE South Briqge, Edinburgh EH8 9YL Tel: 03Hi67 1011 ext 4308 . STATIONERS ' 6 January-3 February WE'RE BETTER~ PAlTERNS OF INTENTION Ferguson Mooney Thomson 21 Niailaa Street EllillllrP F.HII9011'. lues-Sat 10 am-5 pm Admission Free 11144: Subsidised by the Scottish Arts Council 131-"7 ""3IIIN Glasgow Herald Student Newspaper of the Year thursday, january 1ft 1 0 «l0 20p Fl'fTING FOR SPORT: LADIES:c Farcical French. ~~._,.,,.. ~... ""'"' holds the key AND Dressing 'shopes. iiOOCH: '· at the Lyceum - . & Canine Inanity AUT WARNS ·oF MER ·STRIKE • Britain's universities face summer of discontent The A.U.T.are also seeking Thatcherite bargaining cli­ resolution" has not been found by fessor Peter Van dome ,head of the by Mark Campanile new national pay bargaining mate,which is anyway on its way then,the AUT intend to call a spe- AUT at Edinburgh University BRITAIN'S UNIVER- . machinery comparable to thet in out." cial emergency meeting of its pol- was cautious about the chances of SITIES could face strike the civil service. The pay claim was "It is now our intention to go icy making council to decide on its a strike. further into a confrontational next move. Tqe spokeswoman for "It's too early to say but obvi- action in the summer term if . decided upon by the policy mak- ing council of the A.U.T. in . arena.Members are,however ,de­ the AUT told Student that "Our ously,if the pay claim · is · the Association of University October last year ,and negotia- termined to fully back this claim members don't readily take rejected,the AUT executive will Teachers' 27% pay claim is tions between the CVCP and the which is long overdue,"she said. industrial action" ,but she have to look at all the options, "he not met by the Committee of AUT are due to begin in early Representatives of the policy­ wamed"lf negotiations break said. Vice Chancellors and Princi- . February. making council justified the claim down - ,there's a fair chance of EUSA President Jimmy Quinn pals. ' · · Speaking after the· pay claim by . saying it was to "redress a industrial action in the summer told Student: "obviously if there is was announced,Diana · decade of salary erosion, had term." The prospects for success- a strike it's goirig to affect students In addition to the 27% increase Walker,General Secretary of the . demoralised staff, and had caused ful negotiations do not appear 1 very badly, but losing good teach- for April1990 to March 1991, it is ~ AUT said,"Our members are · enormous problems of recruit­ . good.A spokesman for the CVCP 'ing staff is also worrying and that's proposed to add £2000 to those pretty cynical about the govern- ment and retention in univer- described the AUT's pay claim what could happen." · working at the bottom of the pay . ment's attitude to education - sities". as"ludicrous." Quinn added that he could not lecturing sales a figure which from top to bottom. They expect The claim is not due to be He Jold St~dent: "It's up to the say if EUSA would support the would taper upwards in even steps us to come up with a strategy thet accepted or rejected until April • AUT to show thet universities AUT's claim as it did last year, to be phased out at the maximum avoids repeating an annual cycle lst.,but if what a spokeswoman have had an increase _in income of saying that the question had not point of the scale. of erosion.We don't fall for the for the AUT called a "satisfactory 27% to support their claim." Pro- yet been discussed by the SRC. EU KEEPS I'TS HEADS by Neil Rafferty department told Stud~nt that; . - ),. .. - - . "nobody is allowed to comment" . THE University of Edin- The lJniversity's information burgh is at the centre of arow office did, however, issue a state- • after its · refusal to allow ment on Tuesday afternoon say­ ~~----~;.._.1 Aboriginal remains, kept in ing that, "the items in the collec­ the Department of Anatomy, tion w~re gathered for scholarly purposes and may be seen by to be returned to Australia those with a genuine academic for burial. interest. They are not on public The remains, which include display." pickled heads and skulls, were The statement ackno~ledged originally acquired by the Univer­ that "approaches had been made sity for research purposes but from time to time about the possi­ now, say Aborigine campaigners, ble return of some items to their they are simply "collecting dust". country of origin", but added The campaign · to have the that, "the department and the remains returned is being University, after consultation spearheaded by Mr Michael Man- · have, however, come to the con­ sell, an Aborigine lawyer. He is clusion that ... the items are best particularly interested in the skull maintained as a single collection". of William Lanney, said to be the : The National Museum in last Aboriginal Tasmanian and Chambers Street, which also owns therefore of great historical and certain Aboriginal relics, is under spiritual value. Mr Mansell has similar pressure to return them. V demanded the head be returned, Assistant curator Dr Mark Shaw ,.. "so we can give it a proper admitted that the remains were fl Aboriginal burial". "n.ot being researched at the : 0 moment" but added that "when 0 The University itself has been very reluctant to comment on the we were asked to return the affair. Professor Kauffman of the pieces, we were unable to agree to ·. - Aniitomy Department declined to do that". Dr Shaw gave "a per­ answer any questions and after a sonal guarantee that they would later inquiry a spokesman for the not ~e put on display". 2 thursday, january 18, 1990 news ~ student Tory upports SA· Links ____b_y_S_t_e_v_e_M-ar_t..::..in- .=-- found no tangible signs of a par-·. dent Kawunda of Zambia who call theid in large cities such as Dur- for a democratic South Africa, BRITAIN SHOULD foster _ban and Johannesburg. whilst, Mr Hay claimed, running sporting and business links In a number of meetings with ·Jne-party states. with South Africa according business, religious and political Such behavior w~s denounced to local Tory, Councillor lain figures Mr Hay discovered a "tre­ as the height of "humbug and Hay. _ mendous confidence that things hypocrisy", and Mr Hay said typi­ In a controversial speech made are going to change for the bet- cal of many people who call for . at Monday's EU Conservative ter", and he welcomed recent the continued isolation of the society lunch, Mr Hay declared 'large-scale investment in South .republic, when "South Africans his · "absolute support for Africa as a way of paving the way are asking us to ma~e links, not 'sportsmen who go and get to to a democratic and free enter- . the reverse". ,know the people there."· prise based state system . The Edinburgh District coun­ cillor, who made an extensive visit The speaker commented that Councillor Hay concluded by . to South Africa last October, said he had encountered little support urging sympathisers to speak up such ties were a way to express for further economic sanctions, as against those who wished not a ·approval at the dismantling of demanded by many anti-apar­ free South Africa, but for a "black apartheid which is currently tak­ theid activists and slammed Com­ dictatorship" . ace. Mr said that he monwealth leaders such as Presi- Councillor Ian Hoy Photo: Hugh Pinney NUS Arinounces Poll Tax UP _ l\lfark Campanile This increase means that stu­ dents, who are liable to pay' 20% New Loans Strategy of the full charge, will have to find ·• EDINBURGH'S COM- an extra £9 next year in order tp simply incredible to suggest that by Jeff Sin ton . tered were real eased" , since there . MUNITY charge bill looks pay the tax . · were no concrete proposals for the banks involvement is some­ The N.U.S. in Scotland have M.P.s to voe upon. Further the thing that can be discarded. The set to increase by £45 next This year's'charge was, at £392 announced new plans for costs of the scheme would mean committee does not know and year- a rise of 11.5% on this a head, the highest in Scotland, their anti-loans campaign . that it would not be until2026 that cannot know what it is talking year's total. · and these new figures suggest that They are u,rging students to the scheme breaks even. about." The figures emerged this week Edinburgh is set to remain in this A spokesperson for the N. U. S. apply for vacancies with the Turning to the potential effects after a meeting of the city's ruling _position. of the loans scheme on Scottish in London gave details of a rally to Student Loans Company Labour group to plan the coming Universities, she added that based be held in Hyde park on 15th Feb­ year's b:ldget. · Labour leaders on the council being set up in Glasgow. The on an assumption of a 4% rate of ruary to protest against the loan have blamed the increase on the new strategy is designed dis­ inflation, this would mean that the scheme, adding his -pleasure that Edinburgh Uistrict Council's government's decision to freeze rupt the administration of the debt of a student on a four year the banks had pulled out. share of the total community the rate support grant and cut scheme. course would be 50% more than a The Department of Education charge is planned to increase from non,domesti c rates.
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