Allegre eases students' lot
FRENCH education minister Claude Allegre has promised extra financial help for more students in his long-awaited student social plan, but he has ruled out a universal grant for all. His measures fall...
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Friendly society chief resigns
The director-general of one of France's biggest student social insurance societies has announced his resignation. The Cour des Comptes (equivalent to the audit office) is investigating irregularities...
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Power of Italian baroni checked
Italy's senate has approved a radical academic recruitment system that university minister Luigi Berlinguer claims will combat nepotism. From next autumn each university will fill its own vacant...
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Hispanic hothouse in Vegas
WHEN Fidel Trujillo was leaving high school, he was a much sought-after commodity. President of his student council, on the basketball and track teams, Trujillo's grades brought many offers from...
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Yen crisis prompts aid for students
THE Japanese government has produced an emergency package to help thousands of foreign students who are in financial difficulties because of the East Asian currency crisis. About 30 per cent of Japan...
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War on gulf between rich and poor
HIGHER education should reach all those parts of society it has not previously reached. There should be no place in Scotland where people assume it is not for them. The case for this policy is...
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Who is in the neutral corner?
The British have waited years for a Food Standards Agency, enduring health scares related to E. coli, BSE and salmonella in the interim. No sooner is it on its way than the Department of Trade and...
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Join local initiative to global outlook
Devolution and the arrival of the Scottish Parliament can be expected to enhance the distinctiveness of Scottish higher education as universities and colleges necessarily turn their attention to...
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Bolognese flavoured corruption
Reforms in Italy's system of allocating university posts have already been condemned as a step back in time. Domenico Pacitti tells what happened to him Higher education minister Luigi Berlinguer's...
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Pots of gold at the end of regional rainbows
Rich rewards are waiting for higher education institutions that plug into industry and play their part fully in regional development, says Richard Brown Involving higher education more in local...
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In freedom's shadow
The Forum for the Future's HE21 Project encourages the higher education sector to play its part in shifting society to a more sustainable path. Jack Pridham (Letters, THES, July 3) wrongly implies...
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Scottish scapegoats
The controversy over the "Scottish anomaly" will not go away, much as the government would like it to. It continues to fail to justify its policy, because the policy is unjustifiable. Ministers, Tony...
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Let's teach teaching
It is surely astonishing that Lewis Elton (The THES, June 26) regards innovation by trial and error (i.e. "innovations (that) need refining over time") as the route to excellence in teaching, when it...
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Mergers and waste
I was surprised to read in your leader on mergers that the Further Education Funding Council's decision to reject the proposed Hertfordshire University-Dunstable College merger might have been on "...
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Assessing degrees
I am afraid that Bruce Macfarlane's explanation of the rise of the good degree in the 1980s (Letters, THES, July 3), that it could be due to students working harder, is just one of several extremely...