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Mr Carr will be a fellow of Balliol College.
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Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse: JEREMY GRANT, Worcester College
Gaisford Essay Prize: BEN ROWLAND, Balliol College
Proxime accessit: HOLGER GZELLA, Worcester College The Gaisford Dissertation Prize has not been awarded.
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Proxime accesserunt: allesandro coppo, Brasenose College, markus mobius, Nuffield College, and justin smith, St Cross College.
The Prize for the best performance in the written papers has been divided between jonathan levin and markus mobius, both of Nuffield College.
Proxime accessit: justin smith, St Cross College.
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Proxime accessit: DR J.L. LIGHTFOOT, All Souls College.
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Proxime accesserunt: GEORGE N. IOANNOU, Lady Margaret Hall, and DENNY Z.H. LEVETT, Magdalen College.
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Edgell Sheppee Prize for excellent performance in Engineering Science (joint award): HOOI BOON PHUA, Keble College, and ANDREW RUSHTON, St Catherine's College
Edgell Sheppee Prize for laboratory work: EMMA L. PLOWMAN, Somerville College
ICE Prize for the best performance in Civil Engineering: ANDREW RUSHTON, St Catherine's College
IEE Prize for the best performance in Electrical Engineering: YUH C. TAN, St Peter's College
I.Chem.E. Prize for performance in Chemical Engineering: ANDREW N. MAY, Worcester College
Shell Chemical Engineering Prize for best project in Chemical Engineering and the BOC/Dr P.M. Schuftan Memorial Prize for the best project in Chemical Engineering: PHILIP J. HOMEWOOD, Exeter Collegep I.Mech.E. Prize for the best project in Mechanical Engineering: ANDREW C. TASKIS, Keble College
Unilever Prize for the best Control project: HANS O.E. PROTTEY, New College
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Edgell Sheppee Prize for the best project: PHILIPPOS G. KASSIMATIS, Brasenose College
Coopers & Lybrand Prize for Economics: RACHEL M. HARRISON, Keble College
Unipart Industries Prize for the best industrial project: JEREMY J. HORNE, Queen's College
Pilkington EEM Project Prize: MATTHEW J. BAIRD, Keble College
The Dan Gowler Prize for Organisational Behaviour and Industrial Relations has not been awarded.
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Smith Associates Prize for the best Part I project: KELVIN WONG, St Hugh's College
Smith Associates Prize for the best Part II project: VICTOR K. LOO, Balliol College
Smith Associates Prize for the best performance in the Computing Science papers: MAURICE S. SNELL, Oriel College
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Chapman and Hall TGIEE Student Prize (joint award): CHEUNG MOU WONG, University College, and RICHARD LAWSON, Keble College
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This very low level of increase is a direct consequence of the decision by the Government to make a 1 per cent cut in cash terms in the recurrent funding for higher education in 1996-7.
A salary increase of only 1.5 per cent is extremely poor reward for university and college staffs who have contributed so much to the greatly increased productivity of higher education institutions over the last five years. Moreover, it will be the second consecutive year in which pay increases have fallen 1 per cent below the rate of inflation. What is more, even this very poor salary increase can only be afforded by significantly reducing staff numbers yet again.
It follows a long period during which university salaries and wages have increased in value to a much lesser extent than elsewhere in the private or public sectors. Indeed, there is no part of the public sector in which relative salaries have declined so markedly. (There is a Treasury Occasional Paper [No. 3] which confirms this.)
An organisation which tracks pay increases (Income Data Services) reports that of 1,121 settlements in the year to 1 April 1996 only 17 were below 2.0 per cent so that, at 1.5 per cent, universities and colleges will be substantially out of line with pay increases in the rest of the economy.
The Government has approved substantially larger pay increases for staff groups where pay is determined by independent pay review bodies. Two of these are of particular relevance to pay in higher education. The pay of school teachers is to be increased by 2.75 per cent from April and a further 1 per cent from 1 December.
Doctors and dentists who are consultants in the NHS are to have increases of 3.8 per cent and junior medical and dental staff pay is to rise by 5.3 per cent to 6.8 per cent. Doctors, dentists and other healthcare professionals are trained mainly in the research environment of university teaching hospitals. Those who undertake this teaching, training and research are the 2,900 clinical academic staff of universities who are themselves qualified doctors and dentists. They also provide a high proportion of patient treatment in these hospitals.
Since 1979 the basic pay of these clinical academic staff has been closely linked to the pay of their counterparts in the NHS. This has been done for the obvious reason that, if offered lower remuneration, such staff would seek appointments in the NHS rather than in universities. Pay in the NHS has risen much faster than pay in universities as demonstrated in the attached graph. Therefore, throughout much of this period the Government has ensured that universities have been in a position to meet the financial cost of matching pay in the NHS.
Without such assistance universities will have no choice but to increase the pay of clinical academics this year by the same unsatisfactory 1.5 per cent as for other staffs. The financial assistance required amounts to £4.8m.
We know, from past experience, that a shortfall in clinical academic salaries relative to NHS colleagues results in a very rapid drying up of recruits into academic medicine and dentistry with immediate effects on training, research and the treatment of patients.
I hope that the Government will ensure that universities can continue to match pay in the NHS for its relevant staff. And I hope too that you will recognise the serious prospects for non-clinical pay in universities, which really must be addressed and which cannot be left to await the outcome of the Dearing Inquiry.
(Signed) PHILIP N. LOVE
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