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About 70,000 - about 25 per cent - of German students drop out each year before taking exams, according to figures from the Higher Education Information System. One in five said they gave up because...
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Threat to maple syrup industry
The maple tree, Canada's national symbol and an important economic commodity, is threatened by climate change, according to an academic from the heart of maple country. Robert van Hulst, an ecologist...
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Cambridge goes offshore in criminal pursuit
The University of Cambridge plans to establish its first offshore campus in Melbourne next year, in collaboration with the Victoria University of Technology. The plans would involve Cambridge's board...
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New broom sweeps out old order
University and technikon leaders regard Kader Asmal, South Africa's new education minister, as one of very few people capable of shaking up the unwieldy post-apartheid education system. Within 24...
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Cash for students key to success of welcome reforms
Admiral House 66-68 East Smithfield London E1 9XY Fax 0171 782 3300 Tel 0171 782 3000 Email editor@thes.co.uk The tangled mess that is post-16 education and training has been crying out for...
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Stand by external advice or peer review will fade
Unless the role of the external examiners is established on a consistent basis, they will be frustrated in efforts to ensure uniform standards, argues Gordon Pearson Another season of exam boards...
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UCAS eyes up new FE places
UCAS recognises it will have to adapt if the delivery of higher education is to be more varied. Alison Goddard reports. The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service is planning to expand its...
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Figments and pigments
Would Peter Hill allow me to include the information he supplies in the next issue of the newsletter of the IRC (Institute for Resistance to Contentment)? David Punter Department of English studies...
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Lodging a complaint
Many thanks for the article on freemasons. What price pure or applied research in the Ivy League now? Laugh? I nearly had an accident. Paul Weller London SE1
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Why I ... am prepared to withhold my tuition fees again
Kate Atkinson is a second-year student at Balliol College, Oxford University. Last year she tried to withhold her tuition fees and this year is taking part in a mass protest against payment I...
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A scheme with merit
Peter Humphreys spells out why academics should be paid according to performance I have been in my job at the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association for almost two years now. I am still...
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Cloning: proceed with caution
Scientists should recognise the government is right to delay changing the law on cloning, says Ruth Deech In Britain we have learned that the introduction of radical scientific advances is best...
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Cutting Edge
Most think of charity shops as places where people who cannot otherwise afford clothes can buy them, but they have a wider role Charity shops are a familiar feature of high streets and shopping...
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Political raw material
Scotland is building the academic and research network that will help make policy. Olga Wojtas reports "This is an exciting time to be a researcher in Scotland," says Joyce Tait of Edinburgh...
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Family friend opens doors
Improving our understanding of issues affecting families and children is the aim of a joint research centre just opened by Cardiff University and the University of Wales College of Medicine. The...