Drop-out rates shock Spain
Almost half of Spanish students drop out before completing their first three years of study. For those students who make it to their final year, the success rate improves with only a 25-30 per cent...
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Dutch adopt tiered degrees
The Netherlands is to introduce the "Bama", or Anglo-Saxon degree system. From the start of the academic year 2002, graduates will be able to adopt the title of "bachelor" or "master" in addition to...
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Romany institute opened
Romany groups in the Czech Republic last week opened an institute that will provide information on the housing, education and employment conditions of the country's Romanies. It will also train...
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Canada and the UK tackle visa delay
David Jobbins and Philip Fine at the Commonwealth education ministers' meeting, Halifax. A plan to overcome visa problems encountered by some students on overseas work placements has been drawn up by...
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Education action plan adopted
David Jobbins and Philip Fine at the Commonwealth education ministers' meeting, Halifax. Commonwealth education ministers have put higher education at the centre of a ground-breaking statement that...
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Fee relief is key to widening access
David Jobbins and Philip Fine at the Commonwealth education ministers' meeting, Halifax Commonwealth education ministers have set ambitious targets for student mobility between member states, with a...
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Satellite helps Fiji campus ride out coup disruption
David Jobbins and Philip Fine at the Commonwealth education ministers' meeting, Halifax The dispersed multicampus University of the South Pacific was able to harness the latest satellite technology...
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College insists on internet familiarity
With distance education being touted as a way to bring high-level courses to far-flung audiences, one American university has begun an odd experiment, requiring students on its campus to take at...
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Irish spin-off wins top software award
A spin-off company from the University of Ulster has won one of Europe's most coveted and lucrative software awards. Belfast-based MINEit Software beat 20 finalists to become the second ever United...
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Four soft tops
British university teams won four of the ten prizes in the European software competition, Easa2000, in Rotterdam last week. Groups from the universities of Bath, Cambridge, Huddersfield and the Open...
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Optical opt-in
The International Society for Optical Engineering and Institute of Physics has completed the full acquisition of the joint-venture company Optics.Org Ltd by Institute of Physics Publishing (IoPP)....
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On message
Tilburg University in the Netherlands is using mobile phones to increase student participation in mass lectures. Together with Ericsson, the university's faculty of law has designed a system that can...
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Scots state link
Illinois State University has offered two business studentships to the pioneering University of the Highlands and Islands as part of plans to build long-term links between the two institutions. UHI...
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Phoenix rises
The University of Phoenix will soon have a greater Canadian presence. The for-profit univ-ersity recently received a conditional permit to open a facility in Alberta. With more than 135 campuses in...
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Where the heart is, but not the incentive to stay
Northern Ireland has the potential to thrive if it encourages young people to study there, says George Bain Next week, United States president Bill Clinton returns to Northern Ireland. For all its...