Fear of return to Soviet taboos
The Belarusian authorities are clamping down on the scope of higher degree dissertations in a move believed to be politically motivated. The Higher Attestation Commission (VAK) has refused to confer...
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Washington
Margaret Spellings has been appointed Education Secretary by President George W. Bush, replacing Rod Paige. She was chief domestic policy adviser and has advised President Bush on education matters...
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Wellington
New Zealand students are largely ignorant of the student loan process and the implications of taking out a loan, according to a report. The research was commissioned by Study Link, the agency that...
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Bratislava
Martin Fronc, Slovak Education Minister, will make a second attempt to force through a controversial tuition-fee law after his proposals were narrowly defeated in a parliamentary vote earlier this...
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Cape Town
Measures to rehabilitate African universities will be thrashed out at the next four-yearly Association of African Universities general conference in Cape Town in February, Akilagpa Sawyerr, secretary...
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Fear and secrecy pose a threat to our future
Universities must stand firm against intimidation and be more open about their links to business, says Chris Patten The case for greater funding of tertiary education and research usually concerns...
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Remote? They are now
The Institute of Education's staff survey, seen this week by The Times Higher , provided some gloomy reading for managers. Staff revealed concerns about uncaring, uncommunicative and unfriendly...
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Invisible support
But not all staff at the IOE moaned about their jobs. In fact, an impressive 93 per cent reported good working relationships with colleagues, and almost as many found their colleagues very supportive...
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EU must be joking
Kim Howells, the new Higher Education Minister, recently attended his first enlarged European Union ministers' meeting. He reports that the Department for Education and Skills had heeded the Dutch...
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Illuminating alumni
Not content with asking alumni to dig deep, Imperial College London is trying to enlist old boys and girls for propaganda purposes too. A letter went out last week begging them all to write to...
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Farewell to a funghi
Loughborough University is on the hunt for a new vice-chancellor. Incumbent David Wallace is retiring at the end of next year to give him more time for his hobbies of running, dining at La Potini re...
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Reunited: vacation vocation
Tourism chief executive Richard Dickinson visits Bournemouth University where he studied as a mature student in the 1980s There are buildings everywhere. Returning, it is hard to get a handle on the...
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The great betrayal or the great hoax? (1)
Standards have plummeted because failure is inconvenient, insists Adrian Quinn. Not so, Peter Williams says - 'dumbing down' is the invention of grumpy old men who can't accept that change isn't...
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The great betrayal or the great hoax? (2)
Standards have plummeted because failure is inconvenient, insists Adrian Quinn. Not so, Peter Williams says - 'dumbing down' is the invention of grumpy old men who can't accept that change isn't...
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Psychos, charlatans and the just plain lucky
Interviews are a nail-biting experience, for the interviewer that is, says Kevin Fong. I hate interviews. However, when the time finally came for me to make the transition from interviewee to...