Sir Richard Sykes
When plans to merge Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham collapsed two years ago, Sir Richard Sykes blamed "different cultures and different management styles". Others said it was Sir Richard's...
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On the Move
Tim Clark, pro-rector (educational quality) and professor of pulmonary medicine at Imperial College will be its first provost at Wye. He will take up the post following the formal merger of Wye...
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Glittering prizes
John Proops, professor of ecological economics at Keele University, has been elected president of the International Society for Ecological Economics from 2002 for two years. Maxwell Irvine, vice-...
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Eyewitness
Konrad Kalejs is back in Australia after leaving Britain while under suspicion of war crimes in Nazi-occupied Latvia. He has again denied any involvement in the events. The Simon Wiesenthal Centre in...
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Child of the 20th century
The 21st will reveal its university lineage just as the 20th century did, writes Sheldon Rothblatt. Do dates such as 1900 or 2000 have any particular significance for understanding changes in...
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Prague
The Catholic priest elected to lead Charles University theological faculty is unacceptable to academic and church authorities. Vaclav Wolf has led the faculty for several years but, although elected...
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People's campus shuts door
Unlike other United States universities, New York's City College has not charged tuition fees since it was established in 1847. It simply insists that its students - mainly the poor, minorities and...
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Church caught in Islamic threat
A thaw in relations between Greece and Turkey could result in the reopening of a theological college for orthodox priests in Istanbul closed nearly 30 years ago. The Theological School of Halki,...
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Monash widens its global net to South Africa
Australia's biggest university, Monash, has become one of only two foreign institutions to receive South African government approval to operate a campus in that country. Monash University South...
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Outpost in Malaysia aims for 10,000 students
Monash University Malaysia (MUSM), the first offshore campus of Monash University, Australia, says it is going to build a much larger campus in Bandar Sunway within two years, writes Geoffrey Parkins...
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Market responds to student demands
GERMANY: In a new series, The THES studies the pattern of student choice in Europe Internet business success stories such as the search engine Yahoo! and bookseller Amazon.com are inspiring German...
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Market responds to student demands
FRANCE: In a new series, The THES studies the pattern of student choice in Europe French university students are forsaking science in favour of more fashionable courses such as psychology and sports...
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Market responds to student demands
ITALY: In a new series, The THES studies the pattern of student choice in Europe Over the past few years, Italian enrolment policy has aimed at cutting a drop out rate of more than 60 per cent. Out...
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Market responds to student demands
SPAIN: In a new series, The THES studies the pattern of student choice in Europe One of the hardest courses to get on this year in Spain was telecommunications engineering at the University of...
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Hebrew cellphone deal
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Israeli cellular phone company, Cellcom, have launched a service to enable students to receive their exam results and other information on the display...