Black colleges aim for quality
BLACK institutions in South Africa are being urged to become "development universities", geared to meeting the needs of disadvantaged communities, rather than emulating their globalising white...
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Chic young turkshave a dream
EXPOUNDING articulately on how students should organise themselves, using her hands to emphasis points to her audience, 21-year-old Rikky Minyuku looks nothing like the popular image of a South...
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English ditched in war on colonial culture
"No English, please, we are Bengalis." That is the new dictum at Calcutta's Rabindra Bharati University, named after India's national poet and Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, writes Hasan Suroor...
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China invests in science
Scientists in China have been promised better conditions for research under a government plan to upgrade science facilities. The State Science and Technology Commission (SSTC) says the plan, which...
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Rushdie ban opposer quits
A leading Indian historian who was condemned by Muslim fanatics for opposing the ban on Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses has resigned as pro vice chancellor of Delhi's Jamia Millia...
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Students unveil neighbourly plan
The first westerners to visitAlbania soon after the fall of communism were pleasantly surprised: virtually everybody spoke some foreign language and even pupils in primary schools could recite some...
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Asbestos alert fails to disturb ministerial calm
Asbestos watchdogs at Jussieu university campus in Paris have protested against the involvement of the education minister in the biggest decontamination programme in Europe. The university's anti-...
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Italy fears incursion of US sub
Italian archaeologists fear that an American nuclear research submarine may be exploring sunken wrecks in Italy's territorial waters. Their claims followed the sighting of a mysterious conning tower...
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Scientists blamed for diluvian disaster
The disastrous flooding in the Oder Basin in Poland and Germany was not the fault of the Czechs, who opened their reservoirs, or of a wrathful God, but the responsibility of Polish scientists,...
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Court reversal for Siena tutors
An Italian court has reversed a ruling that awarded 14 foreign language lecturers at Siena University salaries at associate professor level and backdated pay worth Pounds 3 million, writes Paul...
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Why research pays
The university of the future Much of the initial comment on the Dearing committee report on higher education has focused on its call for a contribution by working graduates to the cost of their...
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Britain's fatal delay
THOSE who would evaluate how Britain left India (in both senses) (THES, August 1) might note that during the second world war there was a mission by Stafford Cripps to bring all native parties into a...
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Big advances in small print
While researchers rejoice over Dearing there are those who believe that tuition should remain free and that part-time students deserve more support DEARING, it seems, is good news. Predictably, both...
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Mediocrity revisited
THE Dearing report was a big disappointment. It had nothing of substance to recommend about either the structure or content of higher education. Its only significant recommendation was to impose a...
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Marriage made in heaven
While researchers rejoice over Dearing there are those who believe that tuition should remain free and that part-time students deserve more support DEARING recommended that an Arts and Humanities...