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Change is afoot in the post-16 inspection regime - always a worrying time for those involved. But Stephen Grix, 43, the man responsible, recently appointed head of Ofsted's post-compulsory education...
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Don's Diary
Sunday Enjoy catching up on the week's newspapers - they are full of scandal on the selling of exam scripts in the law faculty at Charles. As a colleague points out, on an average salary of Pounds...
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Paris
Philippe Meirieu has resigned as head of France's National Institute of Pedagogical Research. Mr Meirieu was appointed by former minister for education and research Claude All gre to renovate the...
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Turin
The rector of Turin University, the dean of its medical school and a hospital doctor have been accused of a breach of professional secrecy and of violation of privacy after a student with HIV and...
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Lome
The vice-chancellor of the Universite de Lome has been ordered to expel 50 Angolan students said by the Angolan government to be diamond dealers acting for Jonas Savimbi's Unita opposition group....
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A poor way forward for SA
South Africa's v-cs have good cause to reject a proposed restructuring of higher education, writes David Woods South Africa's vice-chancellors have unanimously rejected proposals from the Council on...
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Eye witness
Australian prime minister John Howard's refusal to apologise to the indigenous community for injustices caused during more than 200 years of white occupation has triggered demands from academic and...
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Jobless PhD-holders threaten to go on hunger strike
More than 200 unemployed PhD-holders have held a protest outside the office of the Jordanian prime minister for more than a month. They say they will go on hunger strike soon if there is no...
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Wealthy Harvard to lose president
Harvard president Neil Rudenstine has announced his resignation after helping America's top university to raise $2.6 billion (Pounds 1.7 billion) during an otherwise largely uneventful nine years as...
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Tax raises fears about student debt
Australia's goods and services tax, due to be implemented on July 1, will add A$300 million (Pounds 115 million) a year to the debt that university students incur under the Higher Education...
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Financial support for Latin studies in question
The Argentine government has said it is considering withdrawing $10 million (Pounds 6.8 million) in financial support for Latin American studies at United Kingdom higher education institutions as a...
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Cutting edge
Understanding why the anxiety-sensitive think the worst of innocuous sensations could shed light on panic disorders We have all been in situations where we may be more conscious of bodily sensations...
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An alternative to laboratory mice
The discovery that some common diseases use the same genetic tricks to attack different species may prove good news for scientists and laboratory mice alike. Researchers should now be able to conduct...
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Theory put beauty before physics
It took scholars a long time to accept Nicholas Copernicus's claim that the Sun and not the Earth sat at the heart of the solar system. But analysis by Owen Gingerich, a historian at Harvard-...
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Epilepsy cause may be found
Chemical "short-circuits" that link webs of brain cells together may be the culprits behind epileptic fits. Computer simulations have provided a remarkable insight into the causes of the debilitating...