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A congressional committee has recommended that non-United States students be barred from access to American university supercomputers used in nuclear weapons research in the wake of the Chinese...
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Australian referendum - Queen or country
In five months, Australians decide whether they want to cut royal ties with Britain and become a republic. Legislation for the November 6 referendum was introduced this week and referred to a select...
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Surviving the free market
Vietnam's universities are seizing the opportunities autonomy is giving them. Do Thui Thinh and John Morgan report on a recent workshop Higher education reform is crucial to the economic and social...
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Dons get tough on standards
Academics would support plans to revoke universities' degree-awarding powers, a THES survey has revealed. Three-quarters of respondents think it should be possible to withdraw powers from...
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Online debate
Tuition fees: Which way now? Join The THES/Nexus debate at www.thesis.co.uk.
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Solstra in Suffolk
The Suffolk Televersity project has selected Solstra, the net-based learning system from BT and Futuremedia to deliver courses at home, work or local learning centres.
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Libraries open
Librarians have mobilised to develop an open-source digital library system, which could be to the library world what Linux is to computing. The program source code will be freely available for use or...
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Latin America must raise fees to help poor
A continent-wide refusal to contemplate tuition fees is making a bad situation worse, argues Darrell R. Lewis. Almost everywhere higher education is in trouble, but nowhere more so than in Latin...
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Natfhe consults members on action
Members of university and college lecturers' union Natfhe are being consulted on industrial action, after the union rejected higher education employers' final pay offer. The offer, 3.5 per cent, is...
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A-level reforms score few points with tutors
Admissions tutors have hit out at proposals to reform the A-level points system. Under the plans, an A grade could become equivalent - in terms of points - to two rather than five E grades....
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Human genome project wins US IT award
A leading United States institution has presented the Wellcome Trust's Human Genome Project in Cambridgeshire with an award for its efforts in cataloguing the human body's 100,000 genes. The...
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Black students need black mentors
Black students undertaking social work training would benefit from black mentors, according to a Glasgow Caledonian University study that raises questions of institutional racism. Researchers from...
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Education is key to eradicating racism
Racism can only be eradicated if improvements are made in education, said Neville Lawrence (pictured), father of murdered teenager Stephen, at a meeting of Kent University's law society. The...
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Individual tutoring has got it taped
Tape recorders could make the highly regarded but expensive system of individual tutoring available to many more students. According to researchers Terry Mayes at Glasgow Caledonian University and...
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NUS occupied by free education campaign
Thirty members of the student pressure group, the Campaign for Free Education, occupied the National Union of Students' London headquarters after the NUS refused to support their mass non-payment...