Pristina pressure still on
ETHNIC Albanian students in Kosovo are keeping up the pressure on the Serbian government to allow their return to the University of Pristina. United Nations special emissary on human rights,...
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Funding gap threat to medical schools
VARIATIONS in research income between different medical schools are greater than ever, with some schools receiving ten times more money than others, it was claimed this week. Sir Keith Peters, regius...
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Russian admissions boom rumbles on
RECORD numbers of students have been admitted to Russian universities for the second year running, reversing a decade of decline. Admissions to state and private universities are expected to exceed...
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Service plan to solve financial woes
NEEDY South African students saddled with large study loans should be able to pay them off partly through community service work that also teaches skills, earns academic credit, benefits universities...
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Playing the trading game
NEW YORK financial markets have been open for just ten minutes, but already heads are bent over monitors where colour-coded financial information from Reuters and Dow Jones is continuously updated at...
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Re-animation of our universities
Almost twice as many people in Britain are now employed in the arts and cultural industries as in the motor industry. Similarly dramatic figures, though widely varying, are put on the amount these...
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Penny wise, pound foolish
If academics were twitching about the way in which research has been treated in the Dearing aftermath - relegated to the sidelines while teaching and learning receive all the attention - they will...
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Science is the route to take to high office
For more than a century, the most direct career path to high office in Britain has been to study classics at Oxbridge. Specifically, the Oxford "Greats" degree (Greek, Latin, ancient history and...
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Confident of a better future
Advances in biotechnology must be life-enhancing and not dehumanising, says John Battle Biotechnology is fast becoming a major global industry. That much is beyond doubt. Equally certain is the fact...
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Surplus professors urged to fall on their swords
It is time to introduce a stricter system for awarding chairs, writes Ken Stout SINCE the early days of the education system, the position of professor has been widely sought by academics as a mark...
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Pay review better for all
I FEEL sure that the general secretary of Unison will wish to set the record straight and deny the remark attributed to a spokesperson for his union (THES, October 31) that the Association of...
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Taking on Blackstone
BARONESS Blackstone (THES, October 24) points out with some justification that quality rather than quantity is the key issue in the education of our science and engineering students. However, I hope...
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Taking on Blackstone
SURELY Sir Harry Kroto could not have missed Huw Richards's article (THES, June 21 1996) titled "Blackstone goes for fees"? In it she made the same points as in her THES item of October 17. Last year...
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Taking on Blackstone
BARONESS Blackstone writes of the scope for growth in higher education from non-traditional sections of the population - "older men and women from lower middle-class and working-class backgrounds" (...
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Longer, not shorter
FOR THE benefit of students dedicated to a career in science/engineering and whose future career aspirations extend beyond the United Kingdom, I would suggest that more attention be given to the...