OU admits exam debacle
"Appalling" exam conditions are "part of the risk" faced by the 4,500 Open University students who sit their exams overseas or in non-standard exam centres each year, the OU has admitted. Mature...
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UEA's designer chic
The University of East Anglia is getting used to a new role as muse of the fashion world after designer Christian Lacroix was spotted at the Paris fashion shows wearing a UEA scarf. "All we can...
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QMUC's poster chic
Launching the Department of Health's campaign promoting the joys of virginity, public health minister Yvette Cooper requested a "hip" and "groovy" tone from advertising execs. The campaign, which...
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Poor on all counts
It is difficult to know whether to recommend that Bournemouth University improve its literacy or its numeracy. Last week the university launched its campus-based WorkBank, which aims to match...
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Paris
Numbers enrolling for first and second degrees at French universities have continued to drop, but postgraduate enrolments showed an unprecedented rise of 2.9 per cent, according to ministry of...
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Guangzhou
Guangdong Province's Zhongshan University and Zhongshan Medical University merged last month in an attempt at competing with Beijing, Qinghua, Fudan and Nankai universities. The local government has...
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Barranquilla
A professor at the University of Atl ntico, killed by gunmen last week, was the seventh academic to be assassinated in Colombia in the past year. Alfredo Castro, a professor of social sciences, was a...
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Pisa
The University of Pisa has announced incentives of up to 25 per cent on top of salaries for lecturers who are prepared to work harder. The rector said there would be strong student representation on...
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Bukit Mertajam
Malaysia will begin enrolling students for a new £100m industrial university next July. The institution, modelled on its German equivalents, will offer degrees in information technology, electronics...
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Mexico City
Police were forced to intervene at Mexico City's Universidad Aut"noma Metropolitana Azcapotzalco last week after violence broke out during a student soccer friendly between 150 students from the...
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Canberra urged to boost R&
The leaders of Australia's major academic, scientific and business groups have called on the federal government to boost its spending on research and development. It is the first time the presidents...
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Towering cliches
Ian McNay states we are in the business of "client delight" (Letters, THES, October 6). I thought that we were concerned with teaching students. But that must just be my "traditionalist ivory-tower...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Tim Ingold attacked western science for its idea of the primitive world as a laboratory Edward Allison. School of Development Studies University of East Anglia Tim Ingold...
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Fantastic result
Graham Joyce, a senior lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, has won the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel for the fourth time. Mr Joyce, who has taught creative writing at the university for...
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Fast track to Dundee
The University of Abertay, Dundee, is investing £300,000 to give its staff and students fast-track access to the information superhighway. The new computer network, Abertay GigaNet, will be 40 times...