V-cs press for staff sex equality
Australian vice-chancellors are taking action to redress the severe gender imbalance among senior academics. Women form the majority of tutors and junior lecturers but represent barely one in four of...
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More athletics for women means less for men
After nearly 30 years of operation a law requiring equal opportunity in sports for women in the United States has led to a rise in the number of women athletes, according to a government study. But...
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Nottingham speeds research
The University of Nottingham has become a key player in the global challenge to define the next generation web. The university has just signed a master agreement with Adobe Systems, the fourth...
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Top dogs pass on pain of job cuts
Unions fear for members' positions following LJMU management shuffle Funding council officials have visited Liverpool John Moores University as the institution faces growing unrest over a looming...
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Institutions move from big role to new niche markets
Once upon a time universities fed, sheltered, taught and examined students and awarded them a degree or other credential before they left. No longer. Now there are universities which provide only one...
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Fair weather
West Cheshire College has won the Pounds 5,000 British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) post-16 curriculum award for website excellence. The site was chosen from hundreds of...
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Fast forward
Two young researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have won this year's Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software for their FFTW (Fastest Fourier Transform in the West) software....
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Net deficit
Censorship, access restrictions and high prices are stunting the growth of the internet in the Middle East and North Africa. But its value as an education and information tool will ensure its...
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Role for outsider in giving students a fair hearing
Students are paying customers now and, as predicted, they are becoming more exacting. In this they are being egged on by the National Union of Students and, more indirectly, by the government and the...
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When realism means accepting ethnic splits
In that elusive ideal world, a multicultural, bilingual University of Pristina would be a highly desirable engine for rebuilding Kosovo's shattered society. But inflexible pursuit of this aim by the...
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Students deserve more than a warm welcome
If the United Kingdom is to attract larger numbers of overseas students, it needs to put its money where its mouth is, argues Clive Saville It took the prime minister's encounter with the mayor of...
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Pink man sees red
Why is it that white academics studying black culture have such a hard time, asks Alan Rice Usually when you land a book contract what you feel is euphoria. That is certainly what I felt when my book...
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Innocence amid TVU slaughter
Thames Valley may have had problems with its management, but Geoffrey Alderman is unconvinced by attacks on its academic record In the summer of 1997 the Quality Assurance Agency undertook a special...
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Derby dumbs down to gain Israeli cash
Derby University has been admitting students to degree courses in Israel without agreed minimum entry qualifications and has withheld details of its operations from the Israeli regulating authority,...
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What about English?
Once again five historians have been elected to the British Academy (Glittering prizes, THES, July 9), but only one member of an English department. Should an organisation that accepts public funding...