New year honours
Controversy... This year's new year honours list has been dogged by more controversy than ever, with mounting pressure on the government to open up the secretive process under which worthy recipients...
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Watergate? 'Not a problem for Nixon'
Documents released this week by the National Archives under the 30-year rule offer a characteristic mixture of the eerily contemporary, the hilarious in hindsight and echoes of a completely different...
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Catholic bias mooted
Positive discrimination was mooted by the Scottish Office in 1973 amid fears that the supply of Catholic trainee teachers could dry up, according to Scottish papers released this week under the 30-...
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Distant voices pipe up
The cost of provision for Scots islanders is under scrutiny. Peter Urpeth reports The graduation ceremony on the bleakly beautiful island of Barra, at the southerly tip of the Outer Hebrides, was a...
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Daycare for all - are you kidding?
Good and affordable childcare is vital to students who are parents the world over. How seriously the issue is taken depends greatly on social and cultural values. Some countries are stepping up...
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Senate slates insolvency law
A Canadian senate committee has found that a ban on bankruptcy for ten years after graduation is unfair to insolvent graduates faced with repaying their student loans. The committee, which is...
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Australian graduates leap onto job ladder
Australian graduates are securing high rates of employment in jobs paying good wages. A survey of almost 110,000 students who graduated at the end of 2002 found that more than 90 per cent had found...
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Protests stall Tetovo bill
A bill to legalise Macedonia's Albanian-language Tetovo University has been put on hold at the last minute after demonstrations by the Slav majority. The government feared that the escalating row...
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Copenhagen
Denmark's science ministry has upheld an appeal by Bj?rn Lomborg, director of the Institute for Environmental Assessment, against a ruling that his book, The Sceptical Environmentalist: Measuring the...
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Colombo
Devapriya Seneviratne Epitawatte, vice-chancellor of Sri Jayawardhanapura University, has been sacked by Sri Lankan president Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga after the launch of a death fast by a...
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Winnipeg
Lloyd Axworthy, the former Canadian foreign minister who made his name in international landmine legislation, has been appointed president of the University of Winnipeg, where he taught and studied.
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Tirana
Albania, which collapsed into bloody civil unrest in the 1990s after a botched giant pyramid scheme, is to establish its first university courses on business ethics through the Organisation for...
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Free your minds to see benefits of free trade
Opening universities to competition through Gats offers advantages to everyone, argues J. R. Shackleton Senior academics and politicians have lined up with the usual anti-globalisation suspects in...
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Student focus on degrees puts FE colleges off target
Further education colleges are facing an identity crisis as more students opt for higher education courses in academic subjects rather than lower level vocational qualifications, research reveals....
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Cash fillip for apprenticeships
The government is set to spend another £40 million to promote ailing modern apprenticeships, as new figures reveal that it is falling further behind its targets for take-up of the flagship programme...