Ruka calls for return to normality
Albanian education and science minister Ethem Ruka says a democratic mentality, Europeanisation and the reinstatement of plain normality are key to the urgent improvement of his country's university...
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Grandes ecoles rise to global challenge
Top French business schools linked to the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry are adapting to global economic trends with the establishment of two international training centres. The schools...
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German heretic remains in a chair
Radical German theologian Gerd Ludemann, who sparked a controversy by renouncing Christianity, is to keep his professorial chair at the theology department at Gottingen University. But the title of...
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In other words...
We need to add a sense of proportion missing from your report on languages at the University of Huddersfield ("Huddersfield silences modern languages", THES, December 11). The three programmes to...
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Contracts to motivate universities
The leaders of Danish universities will have to prove that they are giving value for money if research minister Jan Tr?jborg's plans to introduce modern leadership principles are realised. Future...
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'Bone man' loses his job
British-born Ron Clarke, whose recent unearthing of a near complete ape-man skeleton is considered one of Africa's most important palaeoanthropological breakthroughs, has lost his job at the...
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Campuses riven by killings
Examination calendars in Nigeria's 34 state and federal-owned universities have become unpredictable since military rule truncated the second republic of Nigeria in December, 1983. Universities have...
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Student dies of thirst in vending tragedy
Montreal An urban-legends website lists death by toppling vending machine among its more bizarre accidental fatalities, but the story was tragically real for one Canadian university student. Kevin...
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La vie de Bohème
The Unknown Matisse
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Storm of stars
The Heavens on Fire
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Budgetary boorishness
The Chancellors
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an author who won a Nobel prize but was forced to turn it down: "On they went, singing 'Eternal Memory...
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Reflections on life in the legal fast lane
The Justice Game
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Humour that tickles God
Redeeming Laughter
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Record of our time as it ebbs away
Modern Times, Modern Places