Don's Diary
Tuesday Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. Wonderful, monastic spot in a house in woods like Virginia Water. The Dutch government pays for it in the name of the international life of the mind...
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The THES Diary
Wizard wheeze No more will further education be the "Cinderella sector", delegates at the Association of College's annual conference in Harrogate insisted last week. Led by Lewisham College principal...
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Eye witness
The possibility that Ireland may rejoin the Commonwealth after 50 years will increase when secretary-general, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, visits Dublin next week.Taoiseach Bertie Ahern last month signalled...
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Tug of war for knowledge
Sheldon Rothblatt argues that universities need boundaries to retain their legitimacy, privileges and trust Advocates of academic reorganisation are never hesitant to proclaim the requirements for...
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Thames Valley plans
The statement that "Troubled TVU's teaching could be farmed out" is purely speculative (THES, November ). There are no plans for "significant chunks of teaching to be hived off to neighbouring...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THESI Anthony Elliott wrote about the influence of Freud. We asked whether Freud was finished. Stevan Harnad Professor of cognitive science at Southampton University Freud may not be...
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Monash offers offshore learning in southern Africa
Monash University in Melbourne is believed to be the first university to begin developing offshore education programmes that will be offered across the entire region of southern Africa. University...
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Colleges back student protest
Indonesian students have won the tacit backing of university authorities for their anti-government protests. The institutions, once a keystone of the country's stultifying education system, have...
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Italy adds credit to university revolution
Italian state universities are radically redesigning degree courses to harmonise with the rest of Europe and strengthen the drive to greater university autonomy. A three-year "foundation" degree...
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Strikers seek community service
Israeli students demanding that the government halve tuition fees are claiming support from government ministers, academics, doctors and the public. The students have been on strike for five weeks...
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Headscarf backers go to court
Turkish academics are pushing to overturn a rule introduced last month banning them from universities if they "attack" the state. An assistant at Sanurfa University in southern Turkey has already...
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Extremists push for young voters
Political extremists are taking advantage of Russia's economic crisis to attract more students in the run-up to next year's parliamentary elections. Communists, nationalists and rabble-rousers from...
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The future is science
With the Competitiveness white paper expected this month, Lord Sainsbury says we must exploit our science The economy of tomorrow will be the knowledge economy - driven by brainpower and creativity....
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Paying parents take up fight for better teaching
Teaching and research are likely to come increasingly into conflict in British universities, at least in those with a heavy concentration of research. Students and their parents are now paying...
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Roots and branches
"Ancient English selfhood" and "perpetual rootedness" - are these serious criteria for 20th-century poetry? Valentine Cunningham's advocacy of Ted Hughes over Sylvia Plath (THES, November ) resorts...