Investigator sidesteps tribunal
John Sizer, chief executive of the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, has avoided giving evidence to an industrial tribunal on his investigation into mismanagement at Glasgow Caledonian...
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Don's Diary
Friday This may not be the best time to return to Bangladesh. The monsoon is only days away, the temperature is nearing 100, and the political climate is not much cooler. India has exploded five...
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British jury's out on food genetics
Europe is ploughing billions into biotechnology and bioscience. Alison Goddard and Kam Patel report THE government has named the steering group set up to monitor public anxiety about genetically...
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Cultivating concerns: Paul Lazzeri of the Integrated Approach to Crop Research-Rothamsted
Cultivating concerns: Paul Lazzeri of the Integrated Approach to Crop Research-Rothamsted with a display of genetically modified spring wheat at the Royal Agricultural Show in Stoneleigh,...
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British bosses like a bit of sauce with their lunch
BRITISH managers face the longest journeys to work and do not mind the occasional lunchtime chat about sex, according to a new study by an Oxford psychologist. Peter Collett's European Commission-...
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Between you and me, it's not really gossip
You either love it or you loathe it, but office gossip is rife in just about every organisation. Work psychologists have found that in the modern office "tittle-tattle" has been upgraded to career "...
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Office staff's role blurs in class
ALMOST every year for the past 50 years, universities in Australia have faced some sort of review. Most focused on the role of academics, even though general staff outnumber them by about three to...
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Bengalis lobby for English
YEARS of official neglect of English - dismissed as a "colonial hangover" - is beginning to tell in India, and the first sign of panic has come from Calcutta, original seat of the Raj. Employers...
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Summer jobs fail to fill fee-debt gap
CANADIAN students used to be able to pay for a year's study with the earnings from a summer of working. But higher tuition fees, low- or no-wage internships and high summer unemployment figures have...
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Celtic tiger in need of outside refuel
IRELAND is suffering such a skills shortage as the so-called "Celtic Tiger" economy takes off that it could turn to private colleges and United Kingdom universities for help. A leaked draft report to...
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State ventures flirt with fees
A BOOM in private universities in Germany is pressing the state into long overdue reforms. At least nine private institutes plan to launch shortly. They are all doing what the public universities...
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Allegre eases students' lot
FRENCH education minister Claude Allegre has promised extra financial help for more students in his long-awaited student social plan, but he has ruled out a universal grant for all. His measures fall...
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Friendly society chief resigns
The director-general of one of France's biggest student social insurance societies has announced his resignation. The Cour des Comptes (equivalent to the audit office) is investigating irregularities...
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Power of Italian baroni checked
Italy's senate has approved a radical academic recruitment system that university minister Luigi Berlinguer claims will combat nepotism. From next autumn each university will fill its own vacant...
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Hispanic hothouse in Vegas
WHEN Fidel Trujillo was leaving high school, he was a much sought-after commodity. President of his student council, on the basketball and track teams, Trujillo's grades brought many offers from...