Quality Assurance: a new approach
THE AGENCY'S OBJECTIVES #221> There must be public confidence that quality of provision and standards ofawards in higher education are being safeguarded and enhanced. Those who use and those who...
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Job cuts may follow deficit of Pounds 647,000
Isle of Wight College, the island's only further and higher education establishment, is likely to cut jobs after announcing a Pounds 647,000 deficit. The college has been beset by difficulties in...
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Rome
Italy's indecipherable tax forms have been re-written by a team of ten linguists from Rome's Third University. The department is setting up a permanent task force to work on improving the language...
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Middlesex investigated
'Middlesex University has been asked by Hefce to answer a number of points raised with the National Audit Office' Funding council auditors are investigating alleged mismanagement at Middlesex...
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Hue and cry
(Photograph) - Students celebrate the 25th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam war by raising flags at Tu Do (freedom) stadium in Hue in central Vietnam. Hue was the second South Vietnamese city to...
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Port Moresby
The University of Papua New Guinea has penalised ten students for their actions during last year's boycott of classes in protest against a proposed rise in student fees. After being found guilty of...
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Equality quotas mooted
A quota system monitored by the funding councils is being considered to boost the number of women and ethnic minority staff in higher education. Under pressure from government, the Higher Education...
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Act now, these are borderless times
The global e-market is here and institutions had better prepare to sell their wares. Tony Tysome dissects a warning from the CVCP It is one of the biggest money-spinners for universities and colleges...
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Eye witness
Plans to build a $400 million heavy-crude oil pipeline through a sensitive area of virgin forest in Ecuador have alerted conservationists to a potential ecological disaster. Analysts say the pipeline...
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Oslo
Norway's new prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, has appointed Trond Giske minister of research, education and the church. Mr Giske has represented the Social Democrats in parliament since 1997.
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Musical giants downsized
The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians
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Playwright as political protagonist
Vaclav Havel
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Sell your house to elude barbarians
The New Barbarian Manifesto
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Take it as a rule of tongue
Concise Encyclopedia of Educational Linguistics
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Intellectual, pragmatist and great statesman
Salisbury - Splendid Isolation?