Avoid elections, Belarus warns
Students and lecturers at the University of Mahileu have been warned not to take any part in presidential elections under way in Belarus. Elsewhere in the country, students have been arrested for...
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Changes end cafe culture
"You'll never have university education (in the UK) up to the standard of Austria," said a student reading Dickens in Vienna's Cafe Benno, among companions playing chess and cribbage. "You haven't...
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Fear over Lego-built chairs
The University of Washington was delighted when a big corporation stepped forward to endow a needed $2.5 million faculty chair in occupational orthopaedics. But like an increasing number of schools...
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Alexandria's glory reborn
In a Portakabin on top of what used to be Cleopatra's palace, Mohsen Zahran keeps an impressive tribute to the importance of his work. Inside a plastic A4 wallet is the Aswan Declaration of February...
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Czechs lay the ground for reform
The Czech Republic is at last reforming its higher education system and opening it up to some private sector participation. In 1990, Czechoslovakia was among the first countries in Eastern Europe to...
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Students force Thai PM to shift party plan
If Thai prime minister Chuan Leekpai was expecting a warm welcome from his alma mater last month, he was sorely disappointed. Students at Bangkok's prestigious Thammasat University, with little more...
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Future is no problem for IT
Student programmers from Canada have won the ACM International Collegiate Programming World Finals in Eindhoven, Holland. Teams were given eight problems and told to solve six of them in five hours....
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Winners and losers
I was surprised to see Plumpton College described as a loser in the allocation of extra HE places for 1999-2000 ("Participation plans win extra places", THES, April 9). We have been allocated exactly...
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Enabling technologies
Baroness Blackstone's disability bill brings college computers onto the human rights agenda, Alan Newell says. Information technology has an important part to play in supporting both staff and...
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Puttnam whizz-kid warning
Computers have given manipulative power to technicians but educators need to win back aesthetic control Tim Greenhalgh reports from CADE. Take a technically-gifted computer specialist, add a...
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However repugnant, let the voices be heard
On page 10 we publish an email exchange with the rector of Belgrade University. Here is a glimpse of a university under fire. Disentangling truth from propaganda is hard. Jagos Puric is a Milosevic...
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Scottish universities face shock of the new
Scottish higher education will wake up to new masters on May 7. It is in for a few surprises, says Lindsay Paterson. Scottish higher education institutions have long been suspicious of a Scottish...
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Are universities to go the way of shipbuilding?
A dismal scene: at one end of post-compulsory education in Britain are further education colleges that are mismanaged, in deficit, even corrupt. At the other are prestige institutions too broke to...
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Not worth the whistle
The "Whistleblowers" piece on the University of East London ("Department in a mess", THES, April 2) was a sorry piece of reporting. You seem unable or unwilling to differentiate between genuine...
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Player sent off for crying foul
I am pleased that your recent article "Middlesex sacks Clark" ("Whistleblowers", THES, April 9) mentioned in passing that the appeal governors acknowledged that I proved numerous "discrepancies" in...