Earn keep, India tells its v-cs
Indian universities will switch to performance-related funding in-stead of needs-related if University Grants Commission plans go ahead. The move means that universities will be assessed on...
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Register deadline set to trap fly-by-night colleges
South Africa is to crack down on private higher education universities and colleges that fail to register. Hundreds have sprung up in recent years and are training as many as 800,000 people. While...
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Locals fret over campus incomers
Malaysian ministers have hailed Nottingham University's plan to build the first branch campus of a British university here as a "landmark" in their drive to broaden higher education opportunities....
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Abertay on edge
The University of Abertay, Dundee, is bringing together key figures from the digital entertainment industry to help keep its degree courses on the cutting edge. It has signed up 16 industrial and...
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Speaking the same language
An Israeli research team is tackling complexities of communication across cultural boundaries, Helena Flusfeder reports Cultural differences can cause misunderstandings when email is used for...
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Rivalry wrecks high-tech global science links
New technologies mean science research can now be a global undertaking, but international high-tech collaborations rarely work without a history of camaraderie, new research suggests. Gary Olson,...
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Cannes do
The MA design for interactive media course at the University of Middlesex has won four places - more than any other course in the world - at MILIA, the international multimedia festival in Cannes....
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Buy-out secured
Microsoft has amended its Campus Agreement software rental scheme to satisfy some of the Combined Higher Education Software Team's demands. Institutions now have the right to buy out of the scheme...
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Less a highway, more a raging torrent
The History Highway: A Guide to Internet Resources. By Dennis A. Trinkle, Dorothy Auchter, Scott A. Merriman and Todd E. Larson. M. E. Sharpe, 264pp, Pounds 12.45. ISBN 0 7656 0011 0 History and...
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Alps resort to satellite for learning network
Twenty-five isolated schools in the French Alps will be among the first to benefit from a pilot scheme to provide interactive educational services by satellite. A total of 256 primary and secondary...
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Reviews
My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World by Julian Dibbell (Fourth Estate, Pounds 16.99, 352pp) ISBN 1 84115 058 4 "Tiny" in this context refers to those consuming, multi-player, text-based...
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Dangers ahead as high-fliers soar above pack
The number of people in universities whose salaries are over Pounds 50,000 a year is rising - and these figures take no account of outside earnings. Compared with business, academic pay is modest but...
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Your social-working-fund-raising-dinner-avoiding v-c
The money may be good but novice v-c Diana Green says the pitfalls are many and the power more illusory than real. Three months after becoming a vice-chancellor, it seems appropriate to reflect on...
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Ministerial response
Your article on university applications ("Ministers act as poor jump ship", THES, January 29) did not give a full picture. First, the number of applications from school-leavers in the UK (the under-...
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Swiss barrier down
The fact that the University of Geneva is debating introducing English-language tuition to attract more British and Americans suggests these students' unwillingness to operate in a foreign language (...