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Brazil's president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has promised an affirmative action plan to increase the number of Brazilians attending university, especially those from ethnic minority groups. Five...
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'Quality police' axe poor colleges
A special Russian education ministry commission - dubbed the "quality police" by the press and feared by university rectors - is cracking down on corruption and low teaching standards. The commission...
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Only elite need apply
An experiment at transplanting the concept of an Oxbridge college to Italy's monolithic university system is completing its first full year of operation. Two years ago a group of graduate students...
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Utrecht forced to reopen inquiry into lecturer's 'support' for racist theory
Utrecht University has been forced to investigate the way a social sciences lecturer discussed a controversial race theory with students, after it had initially concluded he had acted properly. In a...
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Union fears research score and pay link
A New Zealand lecturers' union has called for individual scores in the country's version of the research assessment exercise to remain confidential, fearing that they will be used to determine...
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Critics round on premier's boozy plans
A Canadian provincial premier has caused uproar by suggesting that the legal drinking age should be reduced to help cut the number of students who leave to study elsewhere in the country. Lorne...
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RAE rejig is well judged
This week's outline for the next research assessment exercise steers a careful course between the universities' demands for less bureaucracy and ministers' insistence on a system that continues to...
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Why do the English fail to see real worth of study?
Higher education is valued on one side of the Irish Sea and underappreciated on the other, says Garret FitzGerald From an Irish point of view, the controversy over variable fees has highlighted some...
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Alison Wolf
The Conservative Party promises more cash for students at no extra cost to taxpayers ... Watch out! Is that a flying pig? University admissions tests for critical thinking or aptitude are cropping up...
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Don's diary: A quickie with Brozo at president's expense
Monday 6.30am: Met in Mexico City by local minders assigned by the publishing house to keep me on time for my trial by media on the subject of Porfirio Díaz. My book on Mexico's longest-serving...
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We will show you the money
In a desperate attempt to boost turnout at this week's ballot for industrial action, the Association of University Teachers has been trumpeting a "new study" of vice-chancellors' pay - based on The...
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Call for Barbara Woodhouse?
The princess royal this week visited the Open University in Milton Keynes and met Colin Pillinger, head of planetary and space sciences and the mastermind behind the Mars probe Beagle 2 . Observers...
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Rector at girl-power lunch
Higher education is to be represented at the queen's "girl power" lunch next month by Bernie Porter, rector of Roehampton University of Surrey. Porter will join some 200 celebrated women from the...
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Beyond the pail
What is education? Doug Peterson, associate professor of psychology at the University of South Dakota, has offered a new perspective to the Annals of Improbable Research . He said: "I start my...
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Why I think academics should take part in public inquiries
Five years ago this month, Jack Straw, who was then home secretary, announced the findings of the Lawrence inquiry - a "watershed" in policing - to an expectant Parliament. Last week, Straw, now...