On the move
Sir Robin McLaren, former ambassador to China, becomes chairman of the college council of Royal Holloway, University of London, in August. He succeeds Sir Robert Andrew. Stephen O'Brien, chief...
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Glittering prizes
The Royal Academy of Engineering has given fellowships to: Anthony Ball, director of materials engineering, University of Cape Town; Yvonne Barton, chairman of British Gas Asia Pacific Pte Limited;...
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The THES diary
Old verbs gotta go We seem to be losing something of our sense of obligation, according to research on changes in grammar since 1961. A database being compiled at Lancaster University shows striking...
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Eyewitness
Next month the Rising Sun, indelibly associated with Japan, is likely to be finally recognised as the country's flag despite anxiety that it smacks of 1930s' nationalism, which peaked in the second...
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Rabat
African students at the universities of Rabat and Casablanca in Morocco protested to the university authorities that they became the victims of racist propaganda after a private television station...
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Tehran
Iran's state television has reported that a detained student leader admitted exiled dissidents were behind the violence during the worst unrest in the country since the 1979 revolution. Several taped...
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Sydney
A United States company that planned to bring in 1,500 US and Japanese students for the opening ceremony of the 2000 Olympic Games is suing the organisers and Australian Olympics minister Michael...
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Misuse of Kazakh capital
Kazakhstan is spending $1 billion on its new capital city while education is in decline, writes Ruth Cherrington It is just over a year since the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan officially...
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EC tells Greece to open jobs
The Greek government is facing stiff fines for failing to comply fully with a European Court of Justice ruling ordering it to abolish national discrimination restrictions that stop non-Greeks gaining...
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Entry exams abolished
Entry exams for would-be Greek university students have been controversially abolished in favour of the combined grades of the last two classes in secondary school, writes Makki Marseilles. The...
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Finns rein in postgrad business
Finland is tightening up on the standards of mushrooming professional postgraduate courses. There are up to 500 specialist university and polytechnic programmes with close to 150,000 students but...
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Bribes pave student's path to legal career
Oleg is a gold medallist who graduated from school last month with a "red diploma" for excellence. This month he took his university entrance exams and again passed with flying colours. In September...
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Oz gets tough on visa abuse
More than 3,000 foreign students overstayed their visas in Australia last year, raising fears that some students are using their enrolments in education institutions as a means to remain permanently...
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Lit-crit hits the screen
Colin MacCabe argues that lecturers should use film adaptations to help students understand literary classics. The language of pre-20th century English literature is now almost impossible to read for...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a classic of reflection: " One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had had nothing to do with...