History for the future
Historians at Teesside University have won Pounds 300,000 from the English funding council's Teaching and Learning Technology Programme to conduct research into new ways of using computer software in...
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Short degrees approved by students and industry
An official survey of Italy's controversial three-year university diploma or short degree courses reveals that students are very satisfied with them despite allegedly poor teaching. Giorgio Alulli,...
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A league table for the sensitive
Professors in Germany would advise their own children to study economics and business studies at the University of Mannheim, and chemistry at the Technical University of Munich, according to a...
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Euro chiefs attend Paris party
MORE THAN 2,000 academics and policy-makers from all corners of Europe will gather in the Sorbonne's marbled halls on Sunday to celebrate the 800th anniversary of Paris University, and to lay the...
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US breaks student record
A record 67 per cent of American high school graduates went on to further or higher education last year, the United States Labor Department has announced. The figure had stuck at about 62 per cent...
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Jobs gloom jolts Japan
Japan's senior students face a tough year for jobs. Early surveys indicate that leading employers intend to recruit fewer graduates for the 1999-2000 financial year. The shrinking graduate job market...
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Chinese 'birds' try to fly from cage
THE People's Congress of China has started to debate a new law on higher education as part of the shift to a more market-oriented economy. The powers of the ministry of education over higher...
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Will the dinosaurs survive the asteroid?
Is "the university" defunct or is it poised to become the main driver of the global economy in a "knowledge century"? Millennial angst is breaking out all over. This week, a self-selected group of "...
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Two sides of A4 will not do the trick
THE Quality Assurance Agency's Agenda for Quality runs counter to irreversible trends in British higher education. Growing criticism, notably from the Russell and '94 groups of universities, has...
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The outside world fails to get a look in
British universities are not meeting the challenge of a fast-changing world - an issue which Dearing failed adequately to address, says Fred Halliday IT IS NOT easy, in the debate on British...
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How fearless five took entrepreneurial path
A growing number of universities sense the need to change their traditional character. Burton Clark explains. IN TRADITIONAL European settings entrepreneurial universities are places that boldly seek...
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V-cs leap to defence of 'united' CVCP
It is difficult to reconcile your coverage of Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals's activities (THES, May 15) with reality. Despite suggestions to the contrary from your anonymous sources,...
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V-cs leap to defence of 'united' CVCP
Vice-chancellors hold strong views and express them vigorously. They are, after all, academics; they feel passionately about higher education and preserving its quality. But your reporters should not...
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V-cs leap to defence of 'united' CVCP
As a vice-chairman of the CVCP I do not believe your coverage is representative of the view of the majority of members. You cite a small number of unnamed vice-chancellors expressing personal views....
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V-cs leap to defence of 'united' CVCP
When there was talk of a convergence of the Committee of Directors of Polytechnics and the CVCP, I, as the CDP's public affairs director, was interviewed by the consultants producing a feasibility...