Lecturers warned off private tutor firms
Luciano Modica, rector of Pisa University and president of the Italian Rectors Conference, has told Pisa academics to steer clear of private tutoring firms that get students through exams. His...
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Germans put on their glad rags
Universities in former communist East Germany are rediscovering traditional academic ceremonies and its professors are donning university gowns as a way of asserting a new identity in reunified...
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Lucca's tribute to its famous son
The Teatro di Giglio is a typical 19th-century civic opera house in Lucca, Tuscany, where the local Giacomo Puccini came to watch operas by Verdi, Donizetti and the man who founded the city's...
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Finns query fee legality
Tuition fees imposed on overseas students at the Helsinki Technical University may conflict with Finnish law, according to education ministry officials. With the exception of the Open University and...
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Rule on spying recruits relaxed
A change in rules governing Canada's spy agency has made hiring campus informants a little easier, according to recently declassified documents. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) no...
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Tension between young blood and the lifeblood
Society thrives when it integrates social and human capital, Tom Schuller and John Field argue. But that cannot be achieved by making it semi-normal for 50 per cent of people to stay on in higher...
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Women of Wellesley party
A thousand alumnae and students of Wellesley College, Massachusetts, have an invite to its first annual gathering in London, which begins today and starts the run-up to its 125th anniversary in...
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Crises in Asia fail to deter emigres
Overseas student enrolments at Australian universities are recovering from the lingering effects of Asia's economic crisis, according to statistics published this week. Just under 45,000 new overseas...
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Nairobi gets tough on graduate loan arrears
Kenya's higher education loans board has asked employers to disclose the names of graduate employees so that it can impose a higher interest rate on outstanding loans. More than 60,000 graduates owe...
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Beyond words
(Photograph) - "Wittgenstein", one of frou digital portraits of philosophers and thinkers by Guillem Ramos-Poqui, head of fine art and theoretical studies at Kensington and Chelsea College, London....
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Laptop loans give business students 'anywhere access'
Cranfield School of Management has provided laptops to all of its full-time Master of Business Administration students as part of their Pounds 18,500 tuition package. Deborah Harry, Cranfield's...
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Current sources for research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS www....
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Gesture control
The University of Dundee's department of applied computing has been awarded Pounds 50,000 by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for a three-year project that could mean the end of...
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Shared savvy in how to hit the web running
Malcolm Peltu reports on how UCL's training experience is now helping the wider community gain a business foothold on the net A training approach developed at University College London for teaching...
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Jam today would be better than a plan for tomorrow
To expand or not to expand? And if to expand, expand what? Chris Woodhead, head of the schools inspectorate, thinks higher education has expanded enough, perhaps even too much: there will not be...