Dakar
Students from Congo who had received no government bursaries for the past eight months occupied Congo's embassy in Senegal. They threatened to bury the body of a fellow student who died of typhoid in...
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Industry wary of sub-degrees
Government plans to expand higher education through two-year foundation degrees received a double blow this week as employers and funding chiefs raised substantial concerns about the qualification....
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Rome
Police with sniffer dogs arrested two men and confiscated 100 grammes of hashish in a raid on a disused lecture hall at La Sapienza University. The building became student-managed in 1990 and...
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Bucharest
Students attending a seminar titled "Halt the brain drain" at the Bucharest School of Law rated the record of president Ion Iliescu as poor. He was booed by activists from the Bucharest Students'...
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Moscow
Russian president Vladimir Putin has set up a Language Council to police the purity of the Russian tongue. It will fine writers and politicians for allowing "pollutants" into their speech.
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Stressed lecturers plagued by illness
More than half of those who work in Britain's universities are on the brink of depression or anxiety, while a quarter have suffered a stress-related illness in the past 12 months, according to...
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Professor's position in doubt as audit reveals undeclared links
Roy Anderson's future as a governor of the Wellcome Trust is in doubt after two reports criticised the management and financial affairs of the Oxford research centre he formerly headed, writes Steve...
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Part-time staff face dismissal and re-employment
More than 100,000 part-time lecturers could be pushed into "bogus" self employment as universities and colleges exploit a loophole to avoid new legislation on part-time workers' rights, lecturers'...
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Union refuses 'mean-minded' pay offer
The Association of University Teachers rejected a proposed pay increase this week of 2.5 per cent as "inadequate" and "meanminded". The union, which represents academic and related staff in the old...
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'Excellent' grades questioned
Huge variations in teaching quality between different subject areas are revealed in an analysis by The THES. The proportion of departments gaining "excellent" ratings varies from zero in some subject...
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London colleges leave Oxbridge behind in research income stakes
Oxbridge lags behind Imperial College, London, and University College London in the race for private research contracts, league tables compiled by The THES show. This year's tables include exclusive...
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Group wins grant to encourage disabled
A research partnership devised to reduce the barriers facing disabled university applicants, has received a Pounds 50,000 development grant from the Further Education Funding Council. The group of 11...
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Swansea professor rapped for behaviour
A philosophy professor has been charged with sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour by Swansea University. Laurence Goldstein stood down as head of the philosophy department earlier this year...
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Unions and employers broker deal on monitoring of equality
Universities will come under pressure to increase data collection and monitoring after an agreement between campus employers and unions this week on equal opportunities. The draft report, drawn up...
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Tax or top-up fees are the only realistic options, MPs told
Universities may be forced to charge higher tuition fees in the absence of more public cash, a vice-chancellor told MPs. Roderick Floud, vice-chancellor of London Guildhall University, told the...