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This week's elections in South Africa offered the first chance for the electorate to deliver a verdict on the first majority government's handling of the transition from apartheid. Barring a major...
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Porn brings down a Harvard dean
Pornography has embroiled two United States universities in controversy over academic freedom and personal privacy. In one case, the president of Wesleyan University was considering eliminating a...
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Professors accused of books fraud
Greece's academic community has been rocked by two cases of alleged fraudulent practices. One involves over-invoicing for books and manuscripts paid for by the state, the other, financial...
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Australian v-cs sign French exchange deal
Committees representing Australian and French vice-chancellors have signed a formal agreement on co-operation involving staff and student exchanges, research collaboration and mutual recognition of...
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Teachers of English see red in Pisa test
The University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate is at the centre of a storm over a changeover by Italian universities from their own English language courses for students to standardised...
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Kosovar students pin hopes on return to classes
Many of the 714,000 or so refugees who have spilled out of Kosovo into neighbouring Albania, Montenegro and Macedonia are academics or students. No one knows how many, but in Macedonia the student...
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Academic links survive bombing
Nato's bombing of Yugoslavia has undermined confidence in western notions of democracy but not affected academic links between the former Soviet Union and Britain, according to participants at an...
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Computer marking splits unis
Almost half of university exams are now marked automatically by computers, it was revealed this week. The high-tech revolution in grading students' work emerged from the first national survey of...
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Exam boycott could 'harm students'
Edinburgh University's principal, Sir Stewart Sutherland, has warned staff that they may damage students' future careers if they withdraw from examination invigilation. The local Association of...
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Counsellors face flood of students
University counselling services are struggling to cope with rising numbers of severely disturbed students, a report revealed this week. Counsellors say that greater pressures are being placed on...
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Careers advice is not reaching good students
Universities are worried that careers advice is being withdrawn from students interested in higher education and targeted instead at lower achievers, writes Alison Goddard. The trend has been noted...
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More students take time off to work to save
The number of students taking a gap-year before higher education has increased by 10 per cent in four years, as more students start working to raise funds for university, a study has found. The...
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TECs predict skills shortages will continue
Skills shortages in the managerial, technical, IT and engineering sectors are predicted by the Training and Enterprise Councils. A survey published this week by the TEC National Council warns that...
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Head teachers to get management training
The government will invest Pounds 100 million over three years in management training for head teachers. Launching the prospectus for the new National College for School Leadership this week, prime...
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Employers must up investment in training
Employers must better their Pounds 10 billion annual investment in training, education secretary David Blunkett has said. Endorsing the key role to be played by the National Training Organisations...