Serb profs refuse 'loyalty' contracts
Serbian academics have until today to sign contracts of employment under the new restrictive Universities' Act, which is effectively a declaration of loyalty to the Yugoslav government of Slobodan...
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Call for stronger industry links
Academics should be encouraged to collaborate with industry through initiatives that carry similar weight to the research assessment exercise, recommends a report published this week by the Higher...
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Controls planned for activities abroad
The government and the National Audit Office this week called for tighter controls on universities' and colleges' overseas activities, as a report revealed how Southampton Institute made "significant...
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Designers of new Pounds 30,000 Art Bar at the Royal College of Art
(Photograph) - Bar mades: students Gitta Gschwendtner (left) and Angel Monzon, who designed the new Pounds 30,000 Art Bar at the Royal College of Art, celebrate their success with a beer at the...
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New Universities are first online
The challenges of the global tuition market "In the UK, it is universities that were created from the polytechnics in the early 1990s that lead in developing collaborative links with overseas...
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Thinking globally, acting locally
The challenges of the global tuition market Technology is transforming how students learn within universities, and this change will spur the globalisation of higher education, according to Tony Berry...
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The challenges of the global tuition market
Last month Alison Goddard looked at the threat to universities from increasing competition worldwide. In advance of the conference "Tomorrow's world: the globalisation of higher education", she...
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Oil giant backs council
Moscow British Petroleum has agreed to fund a Pounds 150,000 environmental education and language training programme in Russia's far east, where it plans to bid for an oil exploration contract. The...
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MPs tussle for state campuses
The Portuguese government is in disarray over competing requests for new state universities to be set up in regional cities. Prime minister Ant"nio Guterres has ruled out any new institutions during...
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North East Surrey College of Technology
In The THES of November on page 5, we carried a map to go with the story "Troubled TVU's teaching could be farmed out". Nescot (North East Surrey College of Technology) was unfortunately omitted.
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What delegates will hear at the conference
The challenges of the global tuition market "If global universities do emerge, they may be based not on existing universities but other kinds of organisation. There is little evidence that higher...
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Kick-off for first football industry postgrads
Britain's first postgraduate students in football are about to graduate from Liverpool University. Fourteen students will graduate with an MBA (Football Industries) on Monday. The course, taught by...
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Hunt on for local saint
Evidence for a new obscure English saint - St Morrell - has been discovered in the quintessential English village of Hallaton, Leicestershire. Morrell, whose name is associated with a well in the...
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Soap studs
(Photograph) - Second-year media students from the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside are working to produce their soap opera, Flat Out, which will be broadcast via university halls of...
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Benchmark plans 'are unworkable'
The new push to establish benchmark standards for all academic subjects came under fire this week as critics claimed the proposed scheme was unworkable. Norman Jackson of the Quality Assurance Agency...