Buy a Teletubby now to avoid short-term regret
ACADEMICS have tuned in to the children's hit series Teletubbies to assess the impact of its phenomenal success on adults and children. Gregory Woods, reader in lesbian and gay studies at Nottingham...
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Bristol fashions rocket for near space travel
A TWO-HOUR journey time from England to Australia has come a step nearer with a new development in rocket engines. Scientists at Bristol University have devised a heat exchanger ten times more...
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Pride comes before benefit fraud
MANY social security fraudsters do not conform to stereotypical views on their motives, a research project has found. Although their reasons for fiddling the system were partly financial, there was...
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A consuming addiction
People have 75 per cent more cash to spend than they did 20 years ago, turning shopping from a utilitarian into a leisure activity. But there are pitfalls such as debt and addiction to buying. Chris...
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Sit-ins backfire on fellow students
Thousands of Greek university students face losing a semester because of occupations by militants protesting at education ministry legislation. The semester will be lost because the rules demand...
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Emigres seek Polish recognition
Poland is expected shortly to recognise degrees from the Polish University in Exile (PUNO), the London-based higher education institution for Polish emigres founded after the war. A law under debate...
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Swiss cantons cheesed off
Swiss higher education is suffering from the same malaise afflicting most of its neighbours - rising demand, soaring costs and dwindling resources. The key factor is the increasing load of students...
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Italian degrees reform 'made in the USA'
Italian universities may soon switch to a system of accumulated credits towards a degree in place of exams, Paul Bompard writes. University minister Luigi Berlinguer made the announcement while...
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Campus agrees to end crime cover-ups
A SECOND United States university has decided to make public the names and records of students involved in disciplinary proceedings in response to mounting concern at college crime. Forced by a...
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Royals bolster tradition
The Buganda kingdom of Uganda is to establish a university at a former military barracks. Mengo University will be the first of its kind to be set up by traditional monarchs in Uganda. Former...
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Rivalry hits Oz market in Asia
The lack of a coherent strategy to market Australian education institutions in Asia is putting a Aus$3 billion-a-year (Pounds 1.2 million) export industry at risk, according federal government...
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Canada cuts academic posts by nearly 10 per cent
Quebec universities have lost 10 per cent of their professors, according to a recent survey by a provincial teachers association. According to the Federation Quebcoise des Professeures et Professeurs...
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Bleak picture for young in promised land
ALARMING statistics that show an increased drop-out rate from university courses have coincided with the revelation from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service that there has been a 6 per...
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Plan for the worst, hope for the best
HIGHER and further education's wish for 1998 must be that the planning blight of 1997 will end. 1997 was a year of waiting - for the election, for reports, for white papers and for money. It was also...
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Abroad thoughts home in on benefits of Russian year
Twelve months learning the language and culture of another country sets students up for life - and work, says Pieta Monks MY "Russian" year abroad in the early 1970s was interesting: five months of...