Pay rise aims to halt drain
Academics and administrators at the University of Malaya (UM) are to receive pay increases of between 20 and 22.8 per cent when the university becomes a corporation in January 1998. Tuition fees will...
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Porn case triggers Internet alert
AUSTRALIAN universities have warned their staff that improper use of the Internet may lead to disciplinary action, including dismissal. The warning followed a case at the University of Melbourne...
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Crackdown on campus riots
The South Korean government is cracking down on Hanchongnyon, the federation of student organisations it says is responsible for orchestrating the violent demonstrations that have become a regular...
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Greeks split over promotion law
The GREEK academic community is deeply divided over legislation on promotion of university teachers brought finally before the summer session of parliament by the education secretary, Gerasimos...
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Reform is scuppered at 'campus curiosus'
Politics professor Fritz Kratochwil's plan for a school of public and international affairs at Munich University appeared to have all the elements the German higher education reform bill is calling...
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Italy looks to private cash to finance future development
Italy's university minister, Luigi Berlinguer, has called on rectors to draw up plans for university building projects to be financed by private institutions, primarily banks, to ease the burden on...
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Urals embrace business parks
University leaders in the Urals city of Ekaterinburg saw the writing on the wall in the dying days of the Soviet Union and began freeing faculty deans to pursue commercial ventures. Seven...
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Engulfed in a tyrant's wake
Salaries of 50p a month, teaching computers without the hardware, books costing more than a month's pay and a ban on the import of pencils. Welcome to higher education in Iraq. Christine Aziz reports...
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Diversity challenge
The university of the future The overwhelming impression that comes from reading Dearing's Higher Education in the Learning Society is the familiarity of the issues involved even from half a world...
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The wrong conclusion
I AGREE with most of what Phil Willis MP said in his THES article last week. Any money raised by tuition fees must be retained for the benefit of higher education. Since employers are major...
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Not acting responsibly
SO Chris Brand feels that his "academic freedom" has been curtailed (THES, August 15). Does this mean his "freedom" to attempt to give racism a veneer of academic respectability, or his "freedom" to...
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Clinical research needs a shot in the arm
Concerns are voiced on the future of clinical research, the impact of fees and the need to encourage more students into independent higher education ALL IS not well with clinical research in this...
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Top-up fees revived by tuition fee let-down
Universities responded with alarm this week to news that student tuition fees was not extra money for them Oxford said it would fight moves to reduce its local authority fee income in line with the...
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No more mistresses
SUE Wilks and Griselda Pollock (THES, August 15) wish to "outlaw sexist bachelor and masters degrees" as they are part of "archaic male-dominated language", and Ms Wilks wishes to be called Mistress...
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Staff pay the price in jobs
Cambridge University expects to shed about 60 academic jobs by the turn of the century as part of a plan to cut Pounds 1.5 million from the annual wage bill. It was hoped that the introduction of...