Billion-dollar brain
Alumnus to be proud of No 138 must think the UN system is worth supporting, as he is about to hand it $1 billion. In the International Who's Who Ted Turner is billed as American broadcasting...
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Call for equality league
PUBLIC funding for universities should be linked directly to equal opportunities performance data, a senior law lecturer said this week after five years of race discrimination litigation against...
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Green job for Holland
EXETER University vice chancellor Sir Geoffrey Holland is to chair an "expert panel" to promote environmental education in colleges and universities, it was announced this week by the Department of...
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SOAS in balancing act
PLANS for an extra 300 studentsbut no additional staff will form the basis of a new business strategy for the School of Oriental and African Studies, writes Phil Baty. London University's SOAS is...
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Cabbies ranked by class
Language: TEFL techniques, the Internet, class and jokes have parts to play in learning and development Why does a Parisian taxi driver speak with almost exactly the same dialect as a Parisian...
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Culture? You must be joking
Language: TEFL techniques, the Internet, class and jokes have parts to play in learning and development Language has a large informal element, and linguists impoverish their understanding of...
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A different way to work through college
NICK Vaughn is the first to admit he is not particularly adept with his hands, so learning how to make brooms was one of the hardest things he has had to do in college. But Mr Vaughn, a senior at...
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Kiwis toy with best model
RADICAL plans to change the way New Zealand higher education is funded have been set out in a government green paper published this month. A purchase model, where the government "buys" the places it...
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Plan to train youth jobless angers state leaders
A FEUD has erupted between Australia's federal and state governments over funding vocational education, writes David Bruce. The battle for the moral high ground has captured the interest of daily...
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Dash for more private cash
AUSTRALIAN universities have taken to privatisation with added zeal since the conservative government led by prime minister John Howard swept into office early last year. Severe cuts in federal...
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Foreign degrees 'not recognised'
FOREIGN universities seeking to promote their courses in India have been told to carry a cautionary note in their prospectuses and application forms warning that their degrees or diplomas are not...
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Students flood scheme
A TEMPORARY job creation scheme to help tackle France's chronic youth unemploymentcrisis has been inundated with candidates - many of them over-qualified students. Within hours of opening, many local...
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Rubbia breaks into the shop
AN ITALIAN Nobel prizewinner who worked at Harvard for 18 years has finally obtained a teaching post in Italy after many years during which he claims to have been left "out in the cold" by the...
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Soros pulls out of Belarus
GEORGE Soros, the Hungarian-born financier who since the collapse of communism has been funding educational, cultural and pro-democracy initiatives in the former communist bloc, has announced the...
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Italy aims research funding at targets
THE ITALIAN government has earmarked 850 billion lire (Pounds 300 million) for scientific research over the next three years. The funds have been assigned to 29 "targets" for applied research...