Experts pick best of the new SA crop
The first newspaper survey ranking South African universities and technikons has revealed a rapidly transforming and expanded system, suffering a financial squeeze and still divided along racial and...
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Spain's top philosopher forced into retirement
Philosophy students at the University of Oviedo, northern Spain, are on strike in protest at the forced retirement of one of the their best-known professors. Gustavo Bueno, 74, described by...
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Ukraine's learned society comes home
Ukraine's oldest learned society, the Schevchenko Scientific Society, held an odd celebration in the western city of Lviv last month - its 125th anniversary. The society organised an international...
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Russian universities told to go it alone
Russian universities can expect support and encouragement from Vladimir Filippov, the new education minister, but little in the way of cash or resources. Professor Filippov, rector of Moscow's People...
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Private tutors defend that personal touch
Private tutorial services that get students through Italy's university exams are under fire. Antonio Padoa Schioppa, president of Milan University law faculty, has demanded their prosecution on the...
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Telcos offer free service
Phone and cable TV companies are lining up to offer universities free telephone installations. At the University of Birmingham, Ericsson worked with Birmingham Cable to provide a fully managed phone...
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Reviews
The Student's Guide to the Internet 1998/1999 by Ian Winship and Alison McNab, Library Association Publishing, 168pp, Pounds 7.99. ISBN 1 85604 308 8 This British book is intended for students in...
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China link brings speed to dialogue
A new high-speed network link between the United Kingdom and China is proving a key asset in a unique research and graduate education programme. The University of Manchester and the prestigious...
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Golden eye
(Photograph) - David Bateman, multimedia officer at the University of Greenwich, with the BAFTA award he won as part of the creative team behind Ceremony of Innocence, an interactive CD-Rom from...
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Doom for discourse is premature
We need critics like Dale Spender (page 17), who does excellent work in her Australian academic post and has sufficient media income to speak freely and sharply about universities and the university...
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Two unions divided by their similarities
Natfhe's problem and AUT's virtue lie in their respective images, says Tom Wilson Last July I left my office at the Association of University Teachers for the last time. After ten years it was time...
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More to learning than job skills
For a government that enjoys urging couples to get married and advising parents what time their children should come home, telling universities what to teach is all in a day's work. But the idea (...
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Flying the flag
I was taken aback by Geoffrey Alderman's remark (THES, "Will kite-mark fly overseas", October 23) "... if my own experiences are anything to go by, the role of the British Council in defending...
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Engineering disaster by computer
I was interested in the article about the numerical errors produced by the inexactness of some computer-processing routines ("Cutting edge", THES, October 23). But I take issue with the view that all...
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Tongue lashing
We were puzzled by the simplistic dichotomy between grammar and communication presupposed by Alan Thomson's article "Double speak" (THES October 30). The suggestion that pendulums swing back and...