Spanish ranking raises hackles
Spain's universities are the latest in Europe to come to terms with league tables aimed at helping students make more informed choices. Excellence: Quality in Spanish Universities, by Jesus de Miguel...
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Dire results slash numbers
Appalling results in South African school-leaving examinations will leave universities competing for a dwindling pool of qualified would-be students this year. Fewer than half of the 511,000 pupils...
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Sources for research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk Compiled by Sarah Knowles. A more comprehensive version of this...
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Reforms prompt street violence
Rival student groups have clashed over planned constitutional reforms in Kenya bringing Nairobi city centre to a halt with three days of fighting with stones, clubs and whips. Political analysts fear...
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Korean upturn improves prospects
The impressive recovery of South Korea's economy is good news for students. Better than expected trading figures have enabled leading employers to announce plans to increase the number of graduates...
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Australian MPs try to push out unpopular education minister
Backbench supporters of the Australian government have been lobbying prime minister John Howard to dump education minister David Kemp. Dr Kemp has proved to be one of the most unpopular ministers. In...
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Resource streamlines net
A coherent national information resource for universities to replace the "mindless serendipity of the web" is being rolled out this year under the guidance of the Joint Information Systems Committee...
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Belfast initiative wows IoP
Hugh Cormican, managing director of the Belfast-based company Andor Technology, one of Queen's University's most successful spin-off businesses, has won a national physics award for transforming...
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A digital renaissance
The intricate and sometimes destructive nature of art restoration is being tackled in a project on digital retouching techniques, writes Tim Greenhalgh. Nick Frayling, a PhD student working on the...
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West failing to meet IT needs
Western nations are facing a shortage of millions of professional information technology workers, according to researchers at Monash University in Melbourne. The researchers have called on the...
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Virtual faculty recruits in the UK
British academics will be advisers to Regents College, America's leading "virtual university". Its president, C. Wayne Williams, was in London last week to sign an agreement between the college and...
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Overseas push kicks off on net
A new image for Britain's higher education in highly competitive overseas markets was launched this week as part of the strategy to meet the government's aim of 75,000 extra overseas students in...
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DTI task force focuses on future learning
A Department of Trade and Industry task force aims to find out how new technology and new organisations will alter teaching and learning by 2020. The group has been set up by the information,...
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Lord Sainsbury at conference
University links with industry and improved vocational skills are the two keys to improved economic performance, science minister Lord Sainsbury told a conference this week, writes Alan Thomson. Lord...
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Free skills course
Small businesses in Leeds and Bradford will soon be able to send employees to brush up their skills on a free course at Leeds Metropolitan University, funded by the European Social Fund. Businesses...