Passing exams is a real gift
A student poll backed by Kyrgyzstan's ombudsman has identified the three most corrupt universities in the country and has revealed a cash-for-results culture among academics. Ombudsman Tursunbay...
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Students take on Pentagon
Students whose antiwar protests were recorded by the US military are using a legal manoeuvre to dig into Pentagon files that resulted from the spying. NBC News has reported that students who...
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Writing's on the wall for campus cell
Göttingen University in Germany is trying to raise €80,000 (£55,000) to save a series of damp, graffiti-lined rooms that once served as a campus prison, writes Clare Chapman. The eight cells were...
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French colleges launch joint institute
Two of France's most prestigious grandes écoles are joining forces to create a new institute to develop higher education and research in economics and finance. The HEC School of Management and the...
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Scholar Ship turns study into plain sailing
An Australian university is lending its academic authority to a project offering undergraduates and masters students the opportunity to study on a liner cruising halfway around the world. Macquarie...
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Hang together - or we will hang separately
Simon Davies and Gus Hosein lament the feeble support they got from academe when the Government attacked their work on IDcards It is time to admit an uncomfortable truth: academe is painfully inward...
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Hefce needs Commons touch
At a recent high-level meeting in Parliament about universities, one delegate remarked that, of course, the Higher Education Funding Council for England would no longer fund research in universities...
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Hacked off
Every now and then one receives a letter that leaves one in little doubt that the sender is more than a little grumpy. Take this e-mail from an academic to one of our reporters: "Truly you live up to...
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Tony who?
It seems vice-chancellors are queueing up to toss aside their Labour tendencies and to woo Boris Johnson, the new Tory Shadow Higher Education Minister. As they fight it out for diary space, he may...
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Campus Cupid
Northampton University this week made a Valentine's Day announcement that it had won a licence to conduct civil partnership ceremonies. The university has catering for up to 200 people, 29 en-suite...
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Bill Rammell: Why we are winning the political argument
Ideological opponents of variable fees claimed the new system would lead to a dramatic fall in student numbers and that fewer young people from working-class backgrounds would go to higher education...
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Attack the lies, but let the liar speak
Deborah Lipstadt was sued by David Irving for libel. She won, but she fears charging him with denying Nazi crimes only raises his profile The last time David Irving was in court, I was the defendant...
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It's science, Jim - but not as we know it
Scientists' work is rarely shown in TV dramas, but when it is, Robert May finds artistic licence can be utterly irresponsible Most people get their information about what is happening in the world...
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Carping is a real senior disservice
Not all change is bad - just ask your less jaded young colleagues, says Susan Bassnett The other day, a colleague asked me a tough question: would I consider academia as a career if I were starting...
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Hey, what d'you mean 'Jim who'?
The groves of academe are littered with the remnants of long-distance liaisons, but it is possible for the two of you to survive having British Telecom as the third party in your relationship, says...